[temujin]

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/sexting_...dp0VNxSrjO

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The LA stripper, helped by a boyfriend, then tried to blackmail Sassa — a single father of two daughters — saying she’d expose their raunchy messages if he didn’t give her money. A second source said, “She made a list of demands."

When Sassa didn’t pay up, the boyfriend e-mailed the sex-text exchanges to horrified Hearst honchos, including CEO Frank Bennack Jr., Hearst Magazines president David Carey and Michael Clinton, president of marketing for the magazines.

On Tuesday, Sassa was pulled into a meeting with Hearst suits, at which he was asked to resign.

So let's see here:

A guy who's successfully worked in top positions at Fox, NBC, Friendster and Marvel Entertainment...

Who is single and raising his two kids as a single dad...

Gets horny and decides to exchange sexual messages with young women...

One of whom is a trashy stripper who tries to blackmail him...

And he's the one forced to resign?

That's North America for ya.

[Basil Ransom]

He made the right move by not paying. It sounds like he's good at what he does, and Hollywood has a history of giving child rapists, murderers and crackheads a second (and third, and fourth and...) chance. Someone'll scoop him up inside of a year.

Plus, he probably can press criminal charges for blackmail.

This also has nothing to do with North America. This is just dumb sleazy stripper game.

[Kingsley Davis]

Herb probably bragged about his shit to impress her and it back fired. Game not recognised.

[durangotang]

(03-21-2013 07:26 PM)temujin Wrote:  

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/sexting_...dp0VNxSrjO

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The LA stripper, helped by a boyfriend, then tried to blackmail Sassa — a single father of two daughters — saying she’d expose their raunchy messages if he didn’t give her money. A second source said, “She made a list of demands."

When Sassa didn’t pay up, the boyfriend e-mailed the sex-text exchanges to horrified Hearst honchos, including CEO Frank Bennack Jr., Hearst Magazines president David Carey and Michael Clinton, president of marketing for the magazines.

On Tuesday, Sassa was pulled into a meeting with Hearst suits, at which he was asked to resign.

So let's see here:

A guy who's successfully worked in top positions at Fox, NBC, Friendster and Marvel Entertainment...

Who is single and raising his two kids as a single dad...

Gets horny and decides to exchange sexual messages with young women...

One of whom is a trashy stripper who tries to blackmail him...

And he's the one forced to resign?

That's North America for ya.

Wait, I am failing to understand something here. His sexting wasn't to female employees or workplace related was it? So why on Earth do his employers care who he sends messages to on his own time if it is not work related? How is that relevant?

[temujin]

Instead of sexting strippers in LA and getting blackmailed, he could have just gone to the FSU, banged women of higher quality than the stripper, and been back in NYC to take his daughters for a walk in Central Park over the weekend.

[thegmanifesto]

He should have called instead of texted.

[temujin]

His sexting was with a LA stripper who, as far as I can tell, he didn't even have sex with yet, and who was not an employee of the corporation.

[Timoteo]

It's equally disappointing that a man, her accomplice, was the one that actually sent the messages to his employers. A man participated in taking down another, more successful man. What was in it for him? Sassa wasn't paying up, so it isn't as if he was in it for a cut. What hold does this stripper/hooker have over him that he would do that? For pussy?

[augen sehen]

I don't see what rationale the board has to ask for his resignation. I really don't get this. She sent him sexts too, it wasn't only him sending dick pics willy-nilly.

Sure he's a CEO but this is on his personal time, its not even that he's married and seeking some strange on the side.

FUCK THIS SHIT.

[j r]

Maye they were already trying to get him out and this made for a handy excuse. Like with te dude throwing up the nazi salute in Greece, you got to wonder if a star would get the same treatment.

[NY Digital]

Bullshit... heck I bet if the stripper recorded the call of him dirty talking to her that'd be enough to make him leave.

as a straight man, you get fucked over so easily.

[Timoteo]

(03-21-2013 07:47 PM)augen sehen Wrote:  

I don't see what rationale the board has to ask for his resignation. I really don't get this. She sent him sexts too, it wasn't only him sending dick pics willy-nilly.

Sure he's a CEO but this is on his personal time, its not even that he's married and seeking some strange on the side.

FUCK THIS SHIT.

Maybe they were concerned that she'd go more public with it, and they didn't want to deal with the potential embarrassment. Everyone is overly PR conscious. He should be consulting an employment law attorney and exploring a lawsuit. Maybe they'll have to throw him some money to make this go away.

[Timoteo]

The underlying lesson here is the more successful you are, or once you REALLY have something to lose, the more cautious you have to be with your written communications. We already know that you have to be careful with email IN the office. If you're an exec, you also have to be careful with your personal communications, because everyone, particularly strippers, become mercenaries if they think there's a dollar in it. It's unfortunate that you have to live your life this way, but you either have to be more careful about the company you keep (no strippers/hookers, etc.) or make sure you aren't being taped. This texting/sexting shit gets more people in trouble...

[guerrilla]

(03-21-2013 07:31 PM)durangotang Wrote:  

Wait, I am failing to understand something here. His sexting wasn't to female employees or workplace related was it? So why on Earth do his employers care who he sends messages to on his own time if it is not work related? How is that relevant?

Because it's Hearst. Epitome of Blue Blood (not counting daughter Patty Hearst)

[guerrilla]

(03-21-2013 07:30 PM)basilransom Wrote:  

He made the right move by not paying. It sounds like he's good at what he does, and Hollywood has a history of giving child rapists, murderers and crackheads a second (and third, and fourth and...) chance. Someone'll scoop him up inside of a year.

lol! for sure, talent is talent after all and true talent is more scarce than not.

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Plus, he probably can press criminal charges for blackmail.

what would be the point? He would spend a couple hundred thousand on his attorney and then win what? Said stripper's assets totaling which total all of $100?

[kbell]

Who fired him? I think this needs a swift response by the karma machine rvf troll squad.

[guerrilla]

hearst corp, they exist beyond the laws of karma (of this world at least)

[Timoteo]

(03-21-2013 08:06 PM)guerrilla Wrote:  

(03-21-2013 07:30 PM)basilransom Wrote:  

He made the right move by not paying. It sounds like he's good at what he does, and Hollywood has a history of giving child rapists, murderers and crackheads a second (and third, and fourth and...) chance. Someone'll scoop him up inside of a year.

lol! for sure, talent is talent after all and true talent is more scarce than not.

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Plus, he probably can press criminal charges for blackmail.

what would be the point? He would spend a couple hundred thousand on his attorney and then win what? Said stripper's assets totaling which total all of $100?

Criminal charges aren't about damages - that would be a civil trial. I agree, she doesn't have any assets, so it would be about her getting convicted and doing some time. He'd need to decide if it would be worth the investment in legal fees to get her into court and expose what she did to him.

[aphelion]

I wonder if he could have gotten in front of it somehow and gotten the company lawyers on it and HR prepared.

"I had a brief relationship with this girl, and now she's hunting for blood. Need your help here.'