The Huffington Post dispatched a reporter to Texas this summer to investigate rumors about Rick Perry’s personal life, hoping for an irresistible story about hypocrisy.

Enter L. Lin Wood Jr.

Retained by Perry’s gubernatorial campaign committee, the acclaimed libel lawyer fired off a letter to the website in August, threatening to sue if the story ran – an aggressive response even for a candidate whose aides later admitted they entered “Def Con 9” mode when long-circulating rumors began to swirl anew as Perry prepared to run for president.

The Huffington Post’s founder Arianna Huffington said recently the website didn’t spike the story because of Wood’s letter, but because there was “simply no there there.”

Still, Wood’s behind-the-scenes work for Perry – and his more public efforts last month to shoot down allegations of sexual impropriety leveled at former Perry rival Herman Cain — suggest there’s an appetite among high-profile campaigns for a more aggressive response to damaging stories. And though some Washington scandal veterans argue Wood’s confrontational approach— which blends litigation-style PR with legal threats and actual lawsuits — is better suited for Hollywood and supermarket tabloid stories, others predict the demand for those services will only expand as scandals increasingly dominate political coverage that spreads rapidly online.

“I’m not out looking for business,” Wood told POLITICO. “But I think that any candidate for public office would be well advised to have the benefit of an experienced opinion on whether a particular article or a particular accusation might rise to the level of being actionable defamation, because I’m afraid that the environment is such that this type of reporting is not going to get better. I’m afraid that it’s only going to get worse.”

Wood is also representing failed Senate candidate Jeff Greene, who lost a Democratic primary in Florida last year, and is suing newspapers over stories that linked him to a real estate scheme. In a letter sent in the heat of the campaign to the St. Petersburg Times, Wood called their story “journalistic fiction” and suggested he would file a lawsuit for “many millions of dollars unless the Times immediately corrects its libel” by retracting the story.

Wood’s past clients show his work had been mostly outside politics until recently. I predict with Wood going out on his own now in a boutique law office we might see him more on the political stage and it would be smart to hire him before the other guy does is my motto.

Wood’s past clients include Democratic Rep. Gary Condit, in the reporting of the death of intern Chandra Levy. Wood became the star Libel Litigator in the country when he made his reputation by helping exonerate Richard Jewell. Wood went on to represent clients in a host of high-profile cases, including the parents of JonBenét Ramsey, the young woman who accused basketball star Kobe Bryant of sexual assault and of course multiple lawsuits in the Anna Nicole Smith saga.

Ray Sullivan, a Perry spokesman, told POLITICO that the governor’s team decided to hire Wood in August when “we got wind that” Huffington Post — which he described dismissively as “a liberal web-based media outlet” — “seemed intent on quickly writing lies about the governor, and we were concerned about the speed at which those lies could be published online.” Sullivan characterization of the situation matches one outlined in more detail in an ebook by Mike Allen and Evan Thomas, which explained that Perry’s aides were “distressed to learn that Jason Cherkis, a Huffington Post reporter, was in Austin prowling around on a story that had been gossiped about for years in the Texas capital: is Perry gay?”

The rumors included “a detailed story about a supposed assignation with a former [male] state official,” wrote Allen and Thomas.

Wood “authored one strongly worded letter to the media outlet, which never replied and never wrote the story,” Sullivan told POLITICO. Wood “did this one thing and that’s it. We never told him to stop and he’s not billing us now as far as I know. The purpose for which he has been retained is completed,” Sullivan said.

Arianna Huffington, president of The Huffington Post Media Group, told POLITICO that the decision not to run a story had nothing to do with the letter. “We looked at what we had; we realized that it was not a publishable story, and it was over,” she said. “The story was already killed before we got the letter from Lin Wood. I never even read the letter.” She added: “If we feel good about a story or stories, we run them, no matter what the legal threat. That’s not an issue. We have a great legal department and have no problem taking on legal challenges.”

Lin Wood’s work for Cain went differently. He began work more than a week after POLITICO first revealed that two women had received financial payouts after accusing Cain of sexual harassment. Additional accusations of harassment followed, as did an allegation from an Atlanta woman named Ginger White that she’d had a 13-year affair with Cain. L Lin Wood labeled all the allegations “lies,” urged women considering making additional allegations to “think twice” and wrote a letter to White’s lawyer asking for her phone records to “ascertain whether the decision to grant interviews was politically motivated and to determine whether she has received or [been] promised money for participating.” Wood also investigated the backgrounds of White and at least one supporter of another Cain accuser, and highlighted their financial problems, which he asserted the media had willfully ignored.

“What I find naive is the failure on the part of members of the media to be asking the tough questions of the accuser, someone who has obviously a troubled past, who has an incentive potentially financially to go out and to make these kinds of unfounded accusations,” Wood told Piers Morgan in an interview on CNN a few days after White went public about her alleged affair with Cain. “Why don’t you look at yourself, Piers, and the members of your media and recognize that you in fact and the media are participating in the deterioration of our political process?” In that interview if I remember correctly Wood never brought out the scandal consuming the U. K at the moment of illegal wire tapping which involves even Morgan’s previous employer.

Wood told POLITICO he has had “informal conversations or communications” with the lawyers for Sharon Bialek, who accused Cain of harassment, and White, “but there have been no formal demands made under applicable statutes at this point in time.”

Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon said he “really enjoyed working with Mr. Wood,” who he said talked with “several individuals in leadership positions” on the campaign. But Gordon stressed that the lawyer worked for Cain personally and not the campaign, which would have been required to disclose payments to him.

Don’t be surprised if more defamation specialists like Wood get involved in politics, Richard Painter predicted, adding “accusations – and how to deal with them both in offense and defense – is an important part of the political game. This will be more common. It is most unfortunate, but that’s the way it is.”

Political lawyers serve their clients well by trying to block damaging stories from running and by seeking to stop the spread of those that do, said Trevor Potter, who was the top lawyer for [John] McCain’s presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2008. “In my experience, it is not unusual to hire lawyers and to have them intervene with news media to essentially litigate a story in the hopes that it can be knocked down and proven unsubstantiated before it is printed,” said Potter. “And obviously, from the campaign standpoint, you don’t want to have an accuser out there doing a press tour day after day. On the other hand, if you can’t prove it’s false, that’s a political problem, not a legal problem.”

Wood told POLITICO that it’s not about politics for him, explaining “my representation of political figures in my career is not based on a political ideology.”

Though he worked on Richard Nixon’s 1972 presidential campaign (recalling he was “extremely disappointed … to learn that in fact he was a crook”) and contributed to the presidential campaigns of Republicans John McCain and George W. Bush and Democrats John Edwards and Barack Obama, Wood said “I don’t claim to be a political person.”

The principles driving his work do not “vary based on whether it’s a presidential campaign or a senate campaign or a state campaign or even a non-political attack on someone’s reputation,” said Wood, who in his late teens spent about a year covering high school football and basketball for his hometown newspaper, The Macon News. “I just happen to take the view that the rules should be the same for public figures, political candidates, and even private individuals, and that is a rule that goes back and insists upon fundamental principles of journalism being adhered to by the media.”

Ah you have to wonder if Bush would have been a one term president if John Kerry had been smart enough to hire Lin Wood BEFORE the swift boat ads took hold?

This is offense PR at it’s best, and as explained in Lin Wood’s own words he is not about political ideology. In today’s instant stories online in some cases without a scintilla of evidence I have long said we would not have had great presidents in the past like Franklin D. Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy. Wood sees where there is a need and will continue to fill that need in my opinion for years to come in the political arena. You can’t blame Wood’s belief in Nixon, I often say I voted for the guy both times and he broke my heart. Nixon is probably the single one reason I am a moderate independent that normally splits my vote today.

Be sure and read the whole story at POLITICO and the well documented links in the article that will give you a lot of background on Perry, Cain and Wood. Wonder how the democrat Jeff Greene’s litigation is going?

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Did any of you actually catch the whole show? I saw replays on CNN of them talking about how heated Piers Morgan called attorney L Lin Wood naive and surely Morgan did not think what he was saying? With part of it clipped out and then Wood’s southern gentleman voice coming back with “I’m sorry you find me naive” and then slapping Morgan down. Wood was on Morgan’s show to defend his client GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain.

My question is did Morgan do this for ratings as taking on Wood with no holds bar and no fear of a lawsuit, or was it a Brit that had no idea what is going on in our legal system?

I wish I had seen the whole hour, I don’t know if Lin Wood was the guest for the full hour or not, do any of you? If so give us your play by play of who won this “debate”.

I also wonder if Wood has found a new set of clientele, remember Jeff Greene suing some media in Florida for endorsing his opponent and then trashing Greene? It is certain I believe, as some in the news is saying that if we had 24/7 infotainment/news back in the 30′s, 40′s, 50′s and 60′s we would not have had great presidents like Franklin D Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy. So what is the balance on the public or voters right to know, and what is private and/or personal lives? I understand why Newt Gingrich was outed in the late 90′s; because while he was leading the charge for President William Clinton’s impeachment over consensual sex that Clinton did not feel he needed to bare all to the voters, especially when President Clinton was on the way out to retirement. While we were learning that Gingrich had abandoned a wife who was dying with cancer for a mistress he had for years. So it was good-bye to Gingrich the Speaker of the House at the same time.

I can’t find this on the CNN site but you can view it at You Tube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iTHif9f8AA

The thought of throwing rocks if you live in a class house comes to mind on that.

Wood also addressed the 24/7 infotainment/news craving for all things personal and private and what that appears to be doing to candidates in this day and time.

I think I see Lin Wood carving out that a politician does not have to openly share what is a very private life UNLESS it all checks out before you air it. Should the infotainment/news be allowed to fill the airwaves for 24/7 with rag magazines type gossip?

I am leaning towards Wood going for it. How is that Democratic US Senate Candidate Jeff Greene lawsuit going? The backlash on this is would it give the U. S. Supreme Court Justices a pass on conflict of interest? Or will it affect how the Court might rule on something like this coming before them?

Here is one more video I found, might be a copy because I did not have the chance to watch it before this post.

So tell us your thoughts, remember that anyone who can afford it can bring a lawsuit, but are these “news tidbits” out of line because they could be based on gossip and not facts? I did find the full interview transcript on the CNN site.

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Nazarian begins tonight’s show with his thoughts of the shooting death of gay teen Lawrence “Larry” King at school by another teen, Brandon McInerney. The jury dead locked on a trial in October, and in November McIneney did a plea deal that gives McInerney 21 years in jail for the murder of King; McInerney will be out of jail at the age of 39. This shooting death affecting John Nazarian to the point he has a picture of King on his desk.

Then Nazarian will turn to a more positive hope for LGBTQ teens with previous guests Jefferson Fietek and Tammy Aaberg of Justin’s Gift.

Tammy and Jefferson will be talking about their organization, the Thanksgiving dinner with fun and food for LGBTQ teens and sponsored in part by First Congregational Anoka UCC Church held this past week on November 25.

Justin’s Gift Justin’s Gift provides empowering programming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning youth and their ally friends. The services are primarily for youth in the general vicinity of Anoka, Andover, Blaine, Champlin, Coon Rapids, and Ramsey but youth from any community are welcome!

Tammy Aaberg took her grief over the suicide of her gifted son and turned it into something positive for other teens in the LGBTQ community so they are not alone and have a safe place to spend some special time with adults who understand. Jefferson Fietek is a teacher in a middle school in Minnesota who has worked alone and with others for changes in the schools of Minnesota and has also joined with Tammy Aaberg and others to make Justin’s Gift a continuing success.

Tammy and Jefferson will discuss other events plans for the holidays but will also talk about the potential situations that at risk teens face during what can become a very lonely holiday season for them.

Justin Gift is NOT a suicide hotline for LGBTQ teens and point out with John Nazarian that the The Trevor Project does provide a 24/7 emergency line at 866-488-7386 for teens who find themselves struggling during the holidays and needs emergency support. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.

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Current Services: AT THIS TIME JUSTICE GIFT DOES NOT HAVE THE STAFF FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION BUT IF YOU LIVE IN THEIR AREA AND WANT SOMEONE TO TALK TO, THEY ARE THE GROUP FOR YOU.
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It seems that “stalking” only happens to women from overzealous male admirers, but this isn’t always the case. I have had many stalking problems through the years since I have popped up on the “fame” radar. My being a man makes it seem less threatening or scary, and sometimes laughable to individuals. For what I am about to discuss/tell you is my opinion. I hope that everyone can learn from this.

Just because I am a man it seems that not everyone, except the FBI or my lawyer or a handful of people, seems to take this seriously. For women, the law is broad and they have many avenues to help them. But for men or a public figure, both in my case, it comes with the territory that men shouldn’t be afraid, etc.

When I was working with Faye Resnick during the O.J. Simpson trial, I first encountered “stalking” that was happening to her. One day when I was leaving her house through the front door and Faye gave me a hug and kiss goodbye, I was suddenly pulled back in the front door by her grabbing me by my collar and pulling me in backwards. She quickly closed the front door and warned me that there was a guy across the street in a white car, and an older man with gray hair and he had a gun pointed directly at her front door! I thought I was seeing things but this was actually happening! We looked through the side glass on the front door and quickly went upstairs and she made The Call! Whew! Talk about scary!

During the Jones v Clinton scandal I had my very first serious “Stalking” problem, not what people think of when “stalking”: not the usual angry ex’s or boyfriends or girlfriends. I was being “stalked” by a bald headed woman wearing a hooded sweatshirt over her head, who actually came onto my living premises property and I actually had the police take her away in handcuffs, not knowing that she had been following me in a hooded sweatshirt for weeks prior. I never knew this woman or have ever talked to her, etc. That was scary, and there were a few more stalkers after her, and some were men, too.

Celebrity brings out the strangest “actions” or “manipulations” by the most unassuming individuals. Funny thing is I can be seen as a threat to some people, threat being I can steal their thunder, but if someone appears unassuming, i.e. plays off being naive, overly nice or plays the victim, they get away with so much because they aren’t seen as a threat. Meanwhile they are the real threat because they are the ones who can do real harm. It’s like a beauty pageant and they are playing fake nice to be awarded Miss Congeniality, meanwhile they aren’t even really a contestant in the first place and they show up backstage trying to befriend the winner, then try to rip the crown off her head. One of my celebrity clients actually warned me because of their stalking problems to “beware of anyone syrupy sweet”, they are the ones working you for something.

Now I am having stalking problems again, this time with two women, but this comes in a whole other form. This time it has taken a turn that they “love” you or in their heads have a “love affair” going on and wanting to coattail ride their way to celebrity. Just having a conversation enforces this to them.

And Facebook (FB), ugh, is “stalker” haven and they feel they have “power” on the internet and thru FB! The reason I say that about Facebook is that these two stalkers are always on FB and watching every move and post on my wall, and everyone else’s. I had to remove these two stalkers because of the “FB spying” and/or “postings” and them “having to know” your fb friends, etc.

My current stalker, let’s call her stalker number two, even confronted me on a write-up I received in a gay magazine from the Midwest saying how she was against gays and let me have it and cried hysterically. Keep in mind once in an email she even told me, “I just don’t understand the gay thing.” It also seemed to be jealousy on her part because of the press attention. Also, I have had to change my phone number more than a few times due to the hysterically crying calls. Friends and business associates have heard her hysterical meltdowns on voice mail messages and were horrified and scared for me. I even had a Studio Exec hear some of these messages and say, “She isn’t well in the head, get away from her.” The stalkers also show up at places unexpectedly. One of them showed up at midnight on a Tuesday night at an anniversary event to “surprise” me, an event that she wasn’t even invited to! Both of these women have “red carpet” issues, let me explain; Stalker number one will do ANYTHING to get her photo on the red carpet. After one of my events stalker number two picked a fight with me asking why she didn’t have her photo taken on the red carpet, acting like she was entitled to have her picture taken. She even inappropriately referred to one of the celebrities as a “Mexican whore” and asked why she was on the red carpet and not her. She then told me the person in charge of the red carpet told her she should be having her photo taken. That prompted me to do a three way conference call with the gentleman in charge of the carpet and the stalker. On the phone he told us both that he never said any such thing to her. He commented that she had obviously been drinking and was intoxicated, and even had a drink in her hand which she was not suppose to have outside the press area. Funny she denied that she wasn’t drinking, once again, or had a drink in her hand because she did have a cocktail glass in her hand in some pics from people that attended and sent to me. He told us she had approached him asking why she wasn’t on the red carpet having her photo taken. Stalker two said to me previously that she doesn’t have any interest in showbiz or red carpets, etc. Mhmm.

Anyway, it isn’t my decision if the paparazzi takes their photos, it’s up to the paparazzi and they are only interested in Celebrities. Anyway, stalker number two was “drinking” again and when she drinks she gets volatile and will deny, deny even if people back up her bad drinking etiquette. I also often experienced a host of crazy phone calls and emails from stalker number two after she had been drinking.

Being told from one of my current stalkers, she actually said to me in a scene out of Sybil with Sally Field, “Don’t you remember when we first met?” I responded, “We? When? Where?” She then said, “Yes, we met at (name & event withheld) and when we were introduced our eyes met!” I was like “I was wearing black sunglasses!”

And they were so black I couldn’t even see my own eyes in the mirror! I myself don’t even remember meeting her. Then being told she googled me that night and went on fb and chatted some people trying to get info on me in a passive aggressive way.

I am always upfront and set the record straight when someone gets too close to me, male or female, that we are “friends” and “friends only”, by email or face to face, but this doesn’t seem to stop them. Then they keep challenging you, and mirroring (copying), a term the FBI taught me. Mirroring can last 2 to 5 years the FBI informed me, that is unbelievable! Because it isn’t “criminal” it can be used as evidence or a follow-trail.

I have had stalker number two, who sometimes works for one of the Housewives from the TV show once in a while, forwarded me the Housewives’ (acquaintance) emails from different cities and her thoughts on people which weren’t very nice, and told me about how this woman would have fist banging kitchen counter top meltdowns on the set from last season with producers because she wants to be the most famous one, and how stalker number two thought the Housewife (acquaintance) was ugly when she first met her because of her face…this is true…that’s what she said, and how gawky and big she is! Of course she would never tell her this to her, um, face because it’s all about what she can get or manipulate her to do. You would think this reality woman would know the drill better than anyone, but she for being so smart she surrounds herself with less than intelligent and beneath her people as her camp. I guess she likes the low level players so she can be the Big Mama!

I have the FBI and my lawyers handling these present stalkers. To me, this is a very strange and scary situation that I am presently in, I feel. To meet these so called stalkers at “showbiz” event settings, whether they fraudulently represented themselves or who are really wannabe star struck fans pretending to be “in the business” and using the excuse that they are there for your support, business, etc

These are two excerpts from two emails were sent by stalker number two in regards to the woman on the Housewives (acquaintance), it is so manipulating and passive aggressive, although stalker number two did email me that “acquaintance” uses the word “manipulate” a lot in her dialogue when referring to people she finds “threatening”:

“(name withheld) actually quoted the words “manipulate”.”

“But, this email in particular I wanted you to read for one reason and it’s because she is sharing how she is scared about upcoming season and asking me if anything she should be aware of? This is what I wanted you to see with your own eyes … about how {name withheld} worries a lot and does care about how people see her even though she seems very tough and uncaring at times. ”

“I remember I once brought up {business name withheld} (down the street from her office) and they have 3 huge bldgs around the area not just an office like (name withheld}, and as I was explaining how I’ve been with the company for many years as they’ve grown, she just kept shaking her head that she didn’t know them. That’s {name withheld}’s weakness because she didn’t want to hear about another business that I was working with or maybe how their company was so big, etc.”

This is just a bit of what is going on with me presently, and believe me, there is a whole lot more!

The FBI has categorized these stalkers I have recently as Love Obsessed/Delusional Stalkers (Erotomania) or “Casual Acquaintance Stalker”. I was also educated from the FBI that these stalkers “Mirror” you for 2 to 5 years after breaking contact, meaning they watch and copy you and your moves, etc.

The first “stalker”, aka stalker number one, seems to be befriending anyone I have ever known that is a celebrity or in the business since I stopped contact 2 years ago and badmouth me. At one point she even went so far as to try and meet and do business with my publicist for herself, all under false pretense of saying that she was a close, personal friend of mine, which she was/is not. And presently has a fake PR person with a fake client list, but no one cares and let’s them go because they aren’t a “threat”!

Stalker number two won’t stop emailing me since I broke contact, going on a little over 3 months now, emailing up to 3 to 5 times a day, sometimes at all hours of the night. She drinks, but won’t admit it. Now, keep in mind I didn’t have any kind of personal relationship with this woman, yet she created one in her head. And I also haven’t responded to any of her emails in months. Yet these emails she sends range from being sweet and overly familiar considering we hardly knew each other. Here are two examples:

“I don’t want to keep bugging you … because I’m sure by now you either not reading my emails or not caring what I have to say or feel. I just feel this part of me wanting to share with you so much … I miss you. I really hope you’re okay and everything is good for you. Perhaps, maybe you even may met
someone so busy with a new person in your life .”

to her turning right around and emailing me the next day the having a meltdown:

“I just want you to know that I realize more than ever … after few friends forwarded me how you recently celebrated once again a birthday with one of your celebrity friends their birthday and post on facebook!…I will no longer bother you … wish you best! “.

Once again, I never reply but the emails kept coming. I have been asked by friends repeatedly, “why don’t you just block her email?” But I’m not blocking anything, it’s called a paper trail!

These types of “stalkers” believe that there is a “relationship” with you. It’s all in their head. I don’t know how many times I have had to say the word “friend” and yet these two won’t stop. The whole thing is absurd! Funny thing is that many people will feel sorry for these two women.. and not for me, but if it were in reverse, it wouldn’t be funny at all. It’s 2011 and I feel that this somewhat “archaic” observation of “men” just isn’t right. Equal Rights? Well, definitely not here.

“Everyone thinks your gay and I’m crazy to want anything more than friendship from you … even tonight (name withheld)made a comment about how you were wooing the guys …”

I am not one to not say my sexual orientation and find her crazy banter to be disrespectful and challenging. Regarding above email comment from stalker number two, I didn’t speak to stalker number two for 3 months and I was the Celebrity Host for an opening of a nightclub and fashion show. She surprised the heck out of me showing up and I did not even speak or look at her. She then had a meltdown after I left the event and “scared” the man who wrote a story about me. He called me the next morning and couldn’t believe her uncontrollable crying and tantrum.

The harassing and threatening bipolar behaviors, which they both vehemently deny, is scary! They will start non stop crying and threatening emails and calls, then the next day email you a sweet letter about their life, and poems they write or photos! Yikes! Funny how these two stalkers think they are on my level and challenge me.

I recently reached out to an “acquaintance” of stalker number two, who is also an “acquaintance” of mine. Actually, stalker number two is more than an acquaintance to her because she employs her from time to time. I reached out because the acquaintance and I received emails that we were both named in, from an unknown person about my stalking incident. These emails were as much of a surprise to my acquaintance as they were to me, and I thought I would call her since she, I knew, responded to those emails. I know this because whoever in the hell was sending those emails also forwarded to me the response they got from my acquaintance. I never responded to those emails, why would I, I don’t know that person? The internet can be a very odd place, although, it really isn’t hard today to get info (email addresses, phone numbers, etc) because of the internet.

Well, she took my call and I thought we were going to have an adult conversation, and she could shed her intelligence or help the matter, but she wouldn’t talk to me once I said “Hello, it’s Daniel DiCriscio, can I talk to you?”, that was all I got out, and she quickly cut me off and said she was in a meeting and hung up on me! I thought in my head after she hung up on me, “In a meeting?? Then why take my call??!” I didn’t even have a chance to say anything! This woman is on one of the Housewives shows, and she of all people should know what I was about to talk to her about. Considering “stalking” happens to many people in the spotlight under the guise of sweetness, I thought that this woman was much smarter than this. I did email her back and said it was unprofessional and rude how she handled the phone call, and she emailed back and apologized, well, sort of, in her own way. I explained that this was a serious, and scary thing that was taking
place and considering we are both in the public’s eye, she could make some sense of this.

This was her email response to me after I emailed her about her about her “less than professional” phone etiquette:

Daniel,
I apologize that you did not like the way I spoke to you, but this is a place of business that you called. I do not have time, nor will I take time on dealing with {name withheld}. I received a lengthy email from a {name withheld} which was very inappropriate and I am aggravated that you feel you both need to involve me in this. I want nothing to do with any of it. This situation with you and {name withheld} is between you and {name withheld}. Please keep me out of it. I am busy running my {business name withheld} company during the day, and do not get involved with people’s business.

Please respect me and leave me out of this situation.

To me, this is a back-handed apology and disrespectful, it’s all about her and not one thing for me. And to make matters worse, this woman emailed back the unknown third party emailer with this contradictory statement regarding her relationship with stalker number two, which isn’t what stalker number two says:

“Thank you for your letter, however I am NOT close to {name withheld} and simply have used her for several occasions.”

The thing with “stalking” is that it’s a very unpleasant thing to deal with, or have to deal with. I can understand completely not wanting to be involved, etc, and I did email this to this woman but to be treated so badly and rudely is uncalled for and makes me think there is more on the other side of her story, if you get my drift.

I feel that this behavior exhibited from these women towards me is almost a battle between the sexes on their part, considering they both are divorced and are on the man-hating path. The “acquaintance” actually makes it pretty clear in her book! Anyone who knows me knows I don’t play that way at all! Also, anything you say, or your lawyer, they will lie and turn it around. My close friends have experienced all the “shenanigans” these stalkers have tried to do, all in the name for fame. Remember if I say their names, they get the fame! Everyone will be googling them and ‘Viola!’ they get what they wanted!

Everyone knows of a famous stalking case: Rebecca Schaffer, Teresa Saldana, David Letterman, Pamela Anderson, Steven Spielberg…and the list goes on. Some of these cases have end up with a deadly ending or a horrifyingly injured victim.

I always say, especially to this woman from one of the Housewives shows, “When it happens to you, you will understand the fear and understand “it” better.”

As the FBI has informed me that “Stalkers” or “stalking” is very, very common in Hollywood, especially the “Erotomania”/ “Love Obsessed/Delusional Stalker” because of Celebrity.

Stalker number one is still “Mirroring” me and is obsessed with “fame”, “coat-tail riding”, knowing and befriending everyone I know and turning them against me, and Facebook, even though they aren’t famous at all. Stalker number two, who also “mirrors” me, and seems to be getting back up help from the “acquaintance”, loves confrontation which is a one-type stalker trait. My lawyer sent her a letter via email asking her to stop harassing me and she quickly responded and took control in less than the span of 5 minutes! Scary! I was in a meeting with my lawyer and she sent me a myriad of emails, challenging me as well!! Stalker number one was sent a letter from my attorney and this stalker waited months before responding and when a response was sent it seemed to my lawyer as if it was actually the stalker writing her own letter on legal letterhead stationery. Another thing about certain stalkers is they love the confrontation, so what to do? Ignore them? That isn’t fair to me is it? They get away with misbehaving, no?

I have a zillion emails from both stalkers, but stalker number two does it in another whole way. Stalker number one doesn’t like confrontation, but stalker number two does! They both seem overly sweet, giving, caring, and can fool a lot of people as it seems, but not me! Stalker number one even offers to put you in her Will and give you lots of money or jewelry, and even offered me 150,000 dollars to marry her …I told her “No Thank You”, plus, they are great liars and fantasizers! You would be amazed at how many people believe that they are in her Will without seeing The Will! But remember, she expects something back…Showbiz! Hollyweird! She even emailed me a “confidentiality agreement” for her, to my surprise, so I would trust her and tell her my info and then said the stuff I would tell her wouldn’t go anywhere!

This is an email from Stalker number one:

“D are you friends with Chynna doll and Mary Cara? invite them if you are. Xoxox”

Chyna Doll is a a client of mine aka Joanie Laurer, and we did some animal protests at UCLA together, and Mary Carey is the porno actress from Celebrity Rehab, whom I have been seen with in photos from the press. I have been asked by this stalker for a myriad of Celebrities including Pamela Anderson to come to her fake charity parties. Yeah, right!

Facebook is another bad stalker haven. I have had to “block” these two for obvious reasons. Just because I am perceived as a nice, easy going, and personable guy does not make me a target; I feel like the girl with the short skirt who gets attacked and people say, “Oh, she asked for it”.

Also, these two present stalkers of mine are so showbiz obsessed yet deny that’s what they are doing, but the proof is in the pudding. They are always manipulating and playing the victim to get “fame” or acknowledgement. They have major entitlement issue for not doing anything! Stalker number one even had a huge meltdown because I was invited to a big movie premiere and she said she deserved to go! Even tried to get herself invited behind my back using a friend pretending to be a publicist repping her! Everyone in the business knows, it doesn’t work that way. One stalker even has a bunch of fake companies that are basically fraudulent showbiz companies that only rep herself, and she claims to have been on TMZ, yet search her name and…. nothing. The other stalker has a business that is run out of her apartment that she was told by her landlord that it isn’t legal to do that. But to read about them on the internet, you would think they are zillionaires…not the case. But because they are unassuming, they get away with it.

I have emailed and pleaded with both of them to stop harassing me and threatening me, and or challenging me…but they keep coming back with emails, etc.

I don’t see lines of people trying to be Doctors and steal their personas or career without the proper credentials, but it seems in Showbiz, people assume there aren’t any prerequisites that you have to have, so Entitlement enters! Beware!

Anyway, hopefully all of this will just go away, but it doesn’t work that way… or so I am told.

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On April 10, she and her three children — Tyler, 9, A.J., 4, and Lauryn, 3 — went shopping because the next day was Nelson’s birthday. They had pizza, went to Wal-Mart and missed a bus, putting them an hour late getting home. Nelson, a student at Kennesaw State University, said she never expected to be out after dark, especially with the children.

When the Cobb County Transit bus finally stopped directly across from Somerpoint Apartments, night had fallen. She and the children crossed two lanes and waited with other passengers on the raised median for a break in traffic. The nearest crosswalks were three-tenths of a mile in either direction, and Nelson wanted to get her children inside as soon as possible. A.J. carried a plastic bag holding a goldfish they’d purchased.

“One girl ran across the street,” Nelson said. “For some odd reason, I guess he saw the girl and decided to run out behind her. I said, ‘Stop, A.J.,’ and he was in the middle of the street so I said keep going. That’s when we all got hit.”

He was charged with ONLY felony hit-and-run and has since served a six-month prison term and must complete four-and-a-half years of probation.

WHAT???? his second hit and run and his third DUI; how did he get this “sweetheart” deal? But it gets worse.

The public has been unsympathetic to both women, especially in the blogosphere.

“Crosswalk or not, it is her responsibility to cross only when traffic is far enough away that she and her children can cross safely,” said an anonymous poster on a WXIA television blog after the April accident.

Raquel Nelson, the mother of AJ was charged and CONVICTED by an ALL white jury of secondary vehicular homicide, crossing roadway elsewhere than at crosswalk and reckless conduct in the April 10, 2010 incident.

“Ms. Nelson has decided to proceed with a retrial,” her new attorney, Steve Sadow, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday evening, following an email announcing his retainer. “I have taken the case pro bono because her prosecution is morally wrong and unjustified.”

Sadow said he hoped, based upon the national media attention Nelson’s case has drawn and the outpouring of support she’s received, that Morgan, [Cobb County solicitor Barry Morgan], chose not to prosecute a second time.

“There has been a public outcry against this prosecution,” Nelson’s new attorney said. “I sincerely hope that … Morgan does the right thing and dismisses the case before a retrial is necessary.”

In the first trial; The last thing the jury heard from Raquel Nelson’s defense lawyer, before they convicted her, was the tape of her frantic 911 call after her son, A.J., was hit by a car. “1-2-3-4-5-6, doing chest compressions on her son, screaming,” recalls attorney David Savoy. “There was not a dry eye in that court room.”

The jury then decided to convict her of vehicular homicide, jaywalking, and reckless conduct.

“I’ve never understood the power of the blogosphere,” Savoy said, “and now, I’m humbled.”

The next court date is in October.

That brings us to the next question in all of this, what those of us who run blogs that cover Celebrity, but more important HIGH PROFILE TRIALS, what is our role in all of this?

I have heard that a blog I have a lot of respect for is closing because of the backlash of the Anthony trial. I can understand that since I have been attacked and even sent viruses through twitter and emails because we DARED to cover the trial in a none lynch mob mentality. So as we get ready for the Michael Jackson trials I have done some soul searching of do we want to stay open and get the personal attacks and the threats including viruses, or is it easier to walk away. TRUST me the decision to walk away and pursue things I enjoy is a no brainer. But being stubborn, Ken and I have decided to began to gather papers, update the multiple Michael Jackson trials, and get ready for another emotion packed trial. So we will be here, will you?

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