Damn. Too late
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Mr. Tomlinson has just threatened Leslie Varney, a female publisher whom he has been attacking on Twitter from behind a block for more than a year, to be sued into poverty with a lawsuit that will presumably be funded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
- Mr. Tomlinson's 2021 lawsuit was funded in secret by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a 501(c)(3) charity, to the tune of $100,000 without the knowledge or consent of their donors or members. They also agreed to pay any sanctions in case he lost (which he did).
- All parties involved signed NDAs so that the general public would never know.
- To this day, SFWA has never acknowledged its funding of the lawsuit, and actively instructs the few people in the know to ignore all inquiries into it.
- Is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America funding Mr. Tomlinson's lawsuit against the Milwaukee Police? If they are, the general public probably wouldn't know due to their history of funding expensive lawsuits in secret.
- You can use IRS form 3949-A to report SFWA's activity if you reasonably believe that it is illegal for a 501(c)(3) charity to secretly fund frivolous nuisance lawsuits for one of its members.
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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal (himself) to a troll.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never shown this video footage during any of his media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergences (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
What ended up happening with the accusations against Hugh Hefner? And what do we think the validity of them are?
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Didn’t they often compare Playboy to Stern? In that most of their audience was blue collar guys or super wealthy with a lot less in between.
I don't know. I lost interest in Playboy when I was old enough to buy them. I would think blue color guys would be more interested in Hustler. That was Flynt's target audience I believe. But there's probably some truth to that. Appreciation for nudity is universal.
If you have that much casual sex you're always going to cross someone's line.
Then there are dumb broads out there who don't tell you their safe word is 'no' and somehow that's MY fault.
Surprisingly - they actually did (for a time) have some good articles and interviews as well as cartoons. They were kinda like a GQ that also had naked women in it. I remember my buddies and thought we looked cool when we rented a house in our early 20s after college and would have the current GQ and Playboy magazine on the coffee table in the living room. This was almost 20 years ago obviously. Surprisingly when we had parties the girls were always interested to look at the issues of playboy.
wasn’t that documentary in 10 parts or more? that’s too many hours for not at least one juicy solid tidbit to have trickled out by now. if he was a pedo, that would’ve been it. nobody cares about rape that happened before 2005
Larry Flynt - head of Penthouse magazine. Was portrayed by Woody Harrelson in film “The People Vs Larry Flint” which featured - you guessed it - Norm MacDonald in a small role as a reporter.
She is a dried up prune from the 70s, child she pushed that "Woman don't need a man" yet the witch found a nice rich cuckold to parasite off
For my dad’s generation playboy turned a lot of beer drinking blue collar guys into fans of jazz, dressing better and non muscle sports cars. Pretty sure playboy launched the hi fi boom that lasted into the 80s
Hustler , child they showed Cervix unlike Playboy which claimed to be "classy"
Kinda funny looking back on Hef - for years he was seen as someone for men to admire because he got laid a lot and was always surrounded by beautiful women and had the playboy mansion which was known for all kinds of sex stories (James Caan lived there for a time in the 70s getting tons of women, Pauly Shore, Scott Baio who was banging Pamela Anderson, etc) but in 2024 that kind of thing would be looked down upon by society in a post #metoo world.
Ever see the movie Star 80 @BonnieMcFarlaneMe2 ? It’s about Dorothy Stratton who was a famous playboy model that was becoming a mainstream (tv and movies) star and was murdered by her super controlling jealous husband / manager. Hef was “upset” with how he was portrayed even though he wasn’t even played in a bad light. Even funnier was Hefner’s brother played himself in it as a playboy photographer. Eric Roberts is great in it - he should have won an Oscar he was so good but back then since he was playing someone “evil” they wouldn’t even nominate him. They even had a phrase called “Star 80 syndrome” for actors that would be great in a movie but played a “bad” person and wouldn’t get nominated because they felt it would look bad to honor someone for playing someone evil.
Ever see the movie Star 80 @BonnieMcFarlaneMe2 ? It’s about Dorothy Stratton who was a famous playboy model that was becoming a mainstream (tv and movies) star and was murdered by her super controlling jealous husband / manager. Hef was “upset” with how he was portrayed even though he wasn’t even played in a bad light. Even funnier was Hefner’s brother played himself in it as a playboy photographer. Eric Roberts is great in it - he should have won an Oscar he was so good but back then since he was playing someone “evil” they wouldn’t even nominate him. They even had a phrase called “Star 80 syndrome” for actors that would be great in a movie but played a “bad” person and wouldn’t get nominated because they felt it would look bad to honor someone for playing someone evil.
That was my thought. If there had been some huge revelations then I would have heard of it by now. I’m still shocked that the company still exists.
Yes, they were seen as a classy “lifestyle” magazine and even the nude women weren’t doing raunchy things in photos which was a big thing with Hef that they were “tasteful” photos of nude women.
Oh shit, you’re right - I didnt read it properly - Penthouse was that Bob Guccioni guy who just wanted to compete with Hefner. Larry was proud to be graphic with Hustler unlike the competition. Plus he had that whole fight Jerry Falwell.
No but I’ll check out the movie. One of my favorite Artie moments is reminding everyone about Pauly Shore saying, “I don’t know” in response to being asked how many Playboy models he fucked.
It’s a good one - Eric Roberts is all kinds of sleazy and scary as the husband. It was a big story when it happened as Dorothy was becoming a mainstream star (similar to Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, etc) and how it ended in a dark and tragic way. Even creepier is they used the house the actual murders happened in.
Pauly pretty much lived at the mansion for years and was known as the guy would get the “new” models first. I think David Spade was also a regular and knocked up one of playboy girls.
I remember the Drew Carey Show did a funny bit involving playboy magazine. Drew built a bomb shelter and had locked himself in it with plenty of food and his father’s collection of every playboy magazine and was excited to finally have time to read them all. Then he sneezes from the dust and his glasses break and now he can’t see anything - a parody of the classic Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough At Last”
I only know the Pauly Shore thing from Stern clips and Spade was also a notorious pussy hound. I’m assuming the clip got deleted but a while ago I did post a clip of Pauly admitting to jerking off on a chick after she was asleep. Old school Stern was absolutely wild. No celebrity would ever admit that today.
Edit: lol