[Sp5]

Came across this browsing on other stuff.

Mike Arrington, founder and CEO of TechCrunch, was accused of rape by a former gf, Jennifer Allen. Of course she has a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/JennAllen

Here is the letter, posted on Arrington's own blog:

http://uncrunched.com/2013/04/11/jennife...efamatory/

He ended up suing her and settled after she made a full retraction and apology.

Quote:

The following letter from my attorneys was delivered to Jennifer Allen this afternoon, in response to her previous claims. I believe the letter speaks for itself. The original PDF of the letter is here.

Eric M. George
Browne George Ross

Via E-Mail and U.S. Mail

Jennifer Allen
[Address Removed]
[Email Removed]

Re: Michael Arrington

Dear Ms. Allen :

I am counsel for Michael Arrington, and write you now on his behalf.

You have posted statements about Michael that are false and defamatory, and that have caused significant harm to his good name. It is my hope that you immediately will take corrective action, by retracting those statements.

I have examined your posted statements, and compared them with provable facts. This comparison shows without any doubt whatsoever that, among others, the following of your statements about Michael are false:

(1) You stated that “he was physically abusive [on] March 5th [of] last year” (April 1, 2013, 2d posting, Gawker.) “[H]e did rape me, on March 5 last year, when he invited me over to make amends from a major catastrophe a couple months prior.” (April 1, 2013, 3d posting, Gawker.)

Your twice-repeated allegation of rape/physical abuse by Michael is not only false, but factually impossible. On March 5, 2012, Michael was in Washington and you were in California. Michael’s whereabouts are confirmed by travel records and credit card statements in my possession, and your whereabouts are proven by a photo of you at a San Francisco party at 1:05 a.m. on March 6, 2012. This photo was posted online but has been removed in the past several days. (The photo, together with screenshots of your Facebook page in March 2012 before and after it was deleted, are appended hereto as Attachment A.)

(2) You stated that “March 5 last year . . . that was the last time I saw him. I reached out once to him in the past year to get my paintings back . . .” (April 1, 2013, 3d posting, Gawker.)

In fact, you attempted repeatedly to communicate with Michael – by telephone, text message and tweets comprising some 292 lines worth of data – after March 5, 2012, the date on which you have accused him of rape. (Notably, some of these items have been deleted. Given the strict privacy controls governing access to data on social networks, our access to Facebook data was consequently limited; we are confident that a complete forensic audit of your social network accounts, and those of relevant third parties, will yield further information that corroborates our timeline of events.) Just a few such communications are as follows:

• On March 6, 2012, the day following the alleged rape, you sent Michael three photographs of yourself, one with the subject line “For only you.” (See Attachment B.)

• On March 7, 2012, two days following the alleged rape, you emailed Michael proffering extensive advice about how he ought to landscape his property. (See Attachment C.)

• On March 22, 2012, seventeen days after the alleged rape, you asked Michael to invest in your start-up: “SO MUCH to do on this freaking site and app. I need to raise 3-5 Million to get this done right. Mother Fucker. You should invest, because I figured out I do have a strong business model but need the correct amount to advertise, PR, build, and make it work. Don’t even think about investing in another art startup without talking to me. I already did this better on my own than some 10 Princeton VC backed graduates . . . imagine what I could do investing the money the right way.” (See Attachment D.)

• On May 2, 2012, you asked Michael “do you want to go to a wedding with me on May 19 in Chicago? It’s also my birthday May 19.” (See Attachment E.)

• On October 3, 2012, you sent three successive SMS messages to Michael: (i) “How are you”; (ii) “o_O” (iii) “Hi”. (See Attachment F.)

(3) You stated that he engaged in “physical abuse” and “emotional abuse” of you, and “threaten[ed] to murder you if you told anyone about the physical abuse.” (March 29, 2013 posting, Facebook.)

The foregoing statements of yours, as well as those set forth below, paint a starkly different picture; they do not portray you as a victim of abuse or murder threats, but rather as a person who is distraught at a break-up, and angered that her ex-boyfriend entered into a new relationship:

• On April 21, 2012, you wrote to Michael that you “feel betrayed and slighted by you, and wish I wasn’t alone since you decided to be with someone else so quickly. Not sure how I’m going to teach myself how to love and trust again.” (See Attachment G.)

• On July 21, 2012, you wrote: “Thanks for the nebulous msg. I’ll be the change I want to see in those communications skills. You, Mike seem happy with the most boring arrogant fake personalitied person on the planet, who you treat the way I should have been treated. If you can’t treat me with respect publicly, still, then you fall into the selfish whorish male prostitute category that will always hurt me during and in the end. Hope you’re enjoying the weather.” (See Attachment H.)

• In August 2012, you tweeted: “Mike @arrington last chance to reconcile. I[sic] you’re not feeling what I’m feeling, with the same heart, than [sic] fuck you.” (See Attachment I.)

(4) You stated that “[h]e raped . . . a friend of mine 5 months ago” (April 1, 2013, 2d posting, Gawker.) “The other rape victim . . . came to me, and Mike knows exactly who she is because he called her a month after a New York conference last year conference [sic] to proudly confirm he did it.” (April 1, 2013, 3d posting, Gawker.)

Your allegation that Michael raped another woman is also false. In addition to categorically denying that Michael has ever been physically abusive (let alone that he committed a rape), there is no such rape victim. Indeed, we cannot even hazard a guess as to the supposed rape victim who you twice reference, but whom you do not identify.

(5) You stated that “he already went to court for sexual harassment and/or rape while at his first law firm. . . . Mike told me stories in person about how he had a Stanford connection with the judge in his rape trial . . . .and he said he [sic] ‘I got out of my reputation being ruined thanks to a Stanford connection with the judge.’” (April 6, 2013, 4th posting, Gawker.)

Your allegation that Michael raped yet a third woman is also false. Again, and in addition to categorically denying that Michael has ever been physically abusive, there is no such rape victim. Nor is there any truth whatsoever to any element of this fantastical story involving a rape, a trial, connections with a judge, or anything else you have suggested in your posting.

The falsity of the foregoing (among many other statements) is confirmed by four people who lived or worked at Michael’s house during the time period that you and he were dating. Heather Harde has publicly stated: “I would have detected patterns of abusive physical behavior if they had been present. . . . I simply do not believe any of the allegations to be true. . . . It’s important we set the record straight.” Nik Cubrilovic has publicly stated: “I lived in the same house as Arrington for the entire time he dated Jenn. I never once saw even a hint of physical abuse.” Gabe Rivera has publicly stated that he had “[n]ever seen physical threats or harm.” Nick Gonzalez has publicly stated: “Mike was never physically abusive to anyone.” (See Attachment J.)

Nor can there be any question as to your foregoing statements’ defamatory nature. Each such statement purports to describe facts that, if accepted by a reader as true, injure Michael’s reputation so “as to lower him in the estimation of the community or to deter third persons from associating or dealing with him.” Right-Price Recreation, LLC v. Connells Prairie Community Council, 146 Wash. 2d 370, 382 (2002).

Very regrettably, your actions here appear all too similar to your actions on May 18, 2011, when you emailed Michael that you were pregnant and were planning on having an abortion the following day (which was your birthday). You subsequently told Michael that you feigned the pregnancy and abortion in order to get him to communicate with you. (See Attachment K.)

Sadly, while making false allegations of rape, your response to statements made by disinterested third parties in Michael’s defense include an irrational attack on an actual rape victim who you accuse of “hurt[ing] women and victims of violence.” (See Attachment L.)

Please consider this letter to constitute a demand for an immediate retraction by you of each of the previous statements. I would appreciate the courtesy of your written response to this demand no later than close of business Monday, April 15, 2013. Indeed, failing a response by you that unconditionally retracts your false and defamatory statements, you will have left us with no choice but to proceed with legal action against you. Litigation is an absolute last resort for Michael, but we will pursue all options to undo the reputational injury caused by your misconduct. As that is our sole objective, to the extent any legal proceedings become necessary, Michael has pledged to donate to charity all amounts recovered.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Eric M. George

[TheFinalEpic]

So much hamster. TL;DR, but I read the last two messages and she flipped like a pancake.

Gotta have this kind of evidence in this day and age I guess.

[Slick Shimmer]

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The second pivotal moment: another ex boyfriend of Jenn’s came forward and, despite fearing that Jenn would attack him publicly as well, made a statement to the court that Jenn had been abusive and extremely delusional with him too, even scaring his young child. He also said that Jenn believed I had her under satellite surveillance and routinely hacked her phone calls impersonating other people. She would only talk via video chat to ensure that she was talking to this man. She believed that any voice only calls could be me impersonating him with a voice device. She was also unable to tell truth from delusion.

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[JayNull]

Delusional

[Wadsworth]

I smell an RoK smackdown.

[Sumanguru]

Great thread.

And yet, feminists will insist that false rape allegations do not happen.

Perhaps we need to create a "False rape allegations" thread, a resource that documents when these occur. Maybe we can find certain patterns in the women who do this shit, so that we know what to look out for in our own lives. At the least we can use it as evidence against feminists.

[LeBeau]

Crazy eyes confirmed:

[vinman]

This bitch is truly crazy. And not in the usual sense of female crazy.

[scorpion]

It seems that hot women are more traumatized by getting dumped than by actually being raped. For women who rely solely on their looks, a rejection of their looks is tantamount to a total rejection of their being. They feel worthless and become unhinged from reality. They invent the rape story to get back at the guy and to give themselves a reason for feeling as traumatized as they do (I wouldn't be surprised if the hamster actually allows many false rape accusers of this type to actually believe their own lie). It's a combination of vindictiveness and ego preservation for them.

[Hotwheels]

(06-24-2014 05:54 PM)LeBeau Wrote:  

Crazy eyes confirmed:

Don't care, would bang

While using fake name

[eradicator]

(06-24-2014 06:58 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

It seems that hot women are more traumatized by getting dumped than by actually being raped. For women who rely solely on their looks, a rejection of their looks is tantamount to a total rejection of their being. They feel worthless and become unhinged from reality. They invent the rape story to get back at the guy and to give themselves a reason for feeling as traumatized as they do (I wouldn't be surprised if the hamster actually allows many false rape accusers of this type to actually believe their own lie). It's a combination of vindictiveness and ego preservation for them.

Indeed. Just let them dump you while becoming more distant and unresponsive. That way, they get to be the one that does the dumping and you are off the hook for them going crazy, at least over getting dumped.

[The Lizard of Oz]

Unfortunately it's not nearly enough of a smackdown. She made an accusation which, if prosecuted, could have permanently destroyed a man's life and possibly landed him in prison for many years. In other words, she committed what amounts to a crime whose consequences can be far worse than those of an actual rape.

And what is her punishment for this crime? Nothing. An apology and a retraction. Given how amoral so many women are, and how vindictive and hungry to destroy the life of a man who they believe has slighted them, the complete impunity with which they can make false accusations invites the false rape accusation epidemic that we are witnessing right now.

False accusation has historically been regarded as among the most serious of crimes. So serious, that one of the Ten Commandments -- the ninth one -- states:

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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Further, the following supremely appropriate punishment is ordered in Biblical law against a false witness:

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18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

It would be good if some fraction of this kind of just retribution were meted out to evil false accusers, so that others may think twice. How to achieve that, I do not know.

[Vaun]

(06-24-2014 07:43 PM)eradicator Wrote:  

(06-24-2014 06:58 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

It seems that hot women are more traumatized by getting dumped than by actually being raped. For women who rely solely on their looks, a rejection of their looks is tantamount to a total rejection of their being. They feel worthless and become unhinged from reality. They invent the rape story to get back at the guy and to give themselves a reason for feeling as traumatized as they do (I wouldn't be surprised if the hamster actually allows many false rape accusers of this type to actually believe their own lie). It's a combination of vindictiveness and ego preservation for them.

Indeed. Just let them dump you while becoming more distant and unresponsive. That way, they get to be the one that does the dumping and you are off the hook for them going crazy, at least over getting dumped.

Sometimes its REALLY hard to get them to dump you, the crazier ones tend not to do the dumping.

[liberman]

   

It seems this statement is ingrained in all women from birth.

[El Chinito loco]

Another high net worth man who almost got suckered into the web of crazy that is the American woman. He dodged a bullet. Imagine if he got married and had a kid with this piece of trash.

[Atlantic]

Some takeaways:

-screenshot and save everything pre and post bang
-communicate through a medium that can be used as evidence.
Example using emails instead of non recorded phone calls
-Good character references and close friends who got your back
-Dont get emotional, dont buy into her frame, get heavy legal advice early and fast

[Foolsgo1d]

Says everything that her word and the word of some other "victim" was taken over a man who has a lot of actual evidence to prove otherwise.

She is a level 10 bunny boiler in my book. Accusing him of rape then saying he should invest money into her startup project. The fuck kind of ego train is this girl on?

This is why rape claims are not taken seriously anymore.

[Sp5]

Ha, Arrington posted an update yesterday. Within the terms of her mouthing off and accusing him on Gawker, this guy knows how to take sweet revenge.

http://uncrunched.com/2014/06/24/fifteen-months-later/

Quote:

FIFTEEN MONTHS LATER

My defamation action against Jenn Allen, the woman who falsely accused me of rape last year after I ended our relationship, is over. She retracted her statements and apologized, which is the very relief I sought before filing this action, and I accordingly dismissed the lawsuit. The settlement agreement is here.

Unfortunately, when you have been accused of rape — even provably falsely as I have been — there’s no way to “win”. For the rest of my life, when someone searches my name on the internet, the word “rape” will appear somewhere among the results. And that person will always wonder whether or not I was capable of such a heinous act.

Despite the pain this has caused me and my family, I took action to enforce my right not to be defamed by lies. I sued Jennifer Allen last year for defamation based on the false rape allegations she made against me. The truth is, she made those allegations because I was in a stable and happy relationship, and would no longer communicate with her.

Today that litigation ended because I was innocent of this outrageous and malicious lie. Jennifer Allen herself offered to settle the case by voluntarily retracting her statements and apologizing, obviously without receiving anything from me in return. This – the truth – is what I and everyone deserves, and is all I’ve asked for from the beginning.

Three pivotal events led to today’s result.

The first was that Jenn had falsely claimed other witnesses would support her testimony. Allen accused me of raping another woman – that woman, once we discovered who she was, told us and the court that Allen had tried to coerce her into saying I had raped her. A recent message to me: “I feel so manipulated by Jenn. I can’t believe how it must feel to be you. If I had known everything that was going on I would have gotten involved sooner.”

The second pivotal moment: another ex boyfriend of Jenn’s came forward and, despite fearing that Jenn would attack him publicly as well, made a statement to the court that Jenn had been abusive and extremely delusional with him too, even scaring his young child. He also said that Jenn believed I had her under satellite surveillance and routinely hacked her phone calls impersonating other people. She would only talk via video chat to ensure that she was talking to this man. She believed that any voice only calls could be me impersonating him with a voice device. She was also unable to tell truth from delusion.

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These psychological issues became apparent during the third pivotal moment, her deposition. Jenn arrived so late to her deposition that her own attorneys weren’t sure if she would show up. She appeared drugged, and admitted that she had taken a strong antipsychotic medication before the deposition. She was prescribed and taking a variety of antipsychotic/bipolar/depression drugs, including at least Seroquel, Abilify, Lexapro and Trazodone.

Her lawyers then ended the deposition hours early. Jenn thereafter retracted her statements and apologized to me.

With Jenn’s retraction and apology, obviously without receiving anything from me in return, I agreed to dismiss this lawsuit. This – the truth – is what I and everyone deserves, and is all I’ve asked for from the beginning.

I’m going to try to move forward with my life now. I’m lucky to have had the support of family and friends. And most importantly, a loving partner who has stuck with me throughout this ordeal (and who had to remove large parts of her life from the Internet when Jenn because abusive towards her, too).

They say that whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I can say with certainty that is not true. My goal now is to try to continue seeing the world as a fundamentally good place. It will be something I struggle with for the rest of my life, but I’m confident that I’ll find a way.

Update: Scott Sullivan-Reinhart, the person I mentioned above who was brave enough to speak out about Jenn’s behavior, has made a public statement on his Facebook page:

[Sp5]

Disgusting denial of reality and white-knighting on this comment thread:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/mike-arringt...280363/all

[WanderingSoul]

Those article comments are legitimately scary.

[samsamsam]

(06-24-2014 07:01 PM)Hotwheels Wrote:  

Don't care, would bang

While using fake name

Hi my name is Sterling.

[Lizard King]

They're calling him fat and ignoring the fact that she didn't go to any legal channels with her 'evidence'.

Such hypocrisy is to be expected these types. Men mustn't call women fat, but it's OK to 'fat shame' a guy.

[Trim]

(06-24-2014 10:53 PM)liberman Wrote:  

It seems this statement is ingrained in all women from birth.

You know what I do on the rare occasion I get this statement? I don't contact them ever again. What do I care?

[Foolsgo1d]

I also read up on a case where some Oxford student who is a president of some form was accused of rape and had the claims dropped.

Not before the media castrated him and speakers declined invitations to Oxford. Seems to me the rape hysteria is making its way over to our universities now.

[lalafufu]

(06-25-2014 09:39 AM)Sp5 Wrote:  

Ha, Arrington posted an update yesterday. Within the terms of her mouthing off and accusing him on Gawker, this guy knows how to take sweet revenge.

http://uncrunched.com/2014/06/24/fifteen-months-later/

Quote:

FIFTEEN MONTHS LATER

My defamation action against Jenn Allen, the woman who falsely accused me of rape last year after I ended our relationship, is over. She retracted her statements and apologized, which is the very relief I sought before filing this action, and I accordingly dismissed the lawsuit. The settlement agreement is here.

Unfortunately, when you have been accused of rape — even provably falsely as I have been — there’s no way to “win”. For the rest of my life, when someone searches my name on the internet, the word “rape” will appear somewhere among the results. And that person will always wonder whether or not I was capable of such a heinous act.

Despite the pain this has caused me and my family, I took action to enforce my right not to be defamed by lies. I sued Jennifer Allen last year for defamation based on the false rape allegations she made against me. The truth is, she made those allegations because I was in a stable and happy relationship, and would no longer communicate with her.

Today that litigation ended because I was innocent of this outrageous and malicious lie. Jennifer Allen herself offered to settle the case by voluntarily retracting her statements and apologizing, obviously without receiving anything from me in return. This – the truth – is what I and everyone deserves, and is all I’ve asked for from the beginning.

Three pivotal events led to today’s result.

The first was that Jenn had falsely claimed other witnesses would support her testimony. Allen accused me of raping another woman – that woman, once we discovered who she was, told us and the court that Allen had tried to coerce her into saying I had raped her. A recent message to me: “I feel so manipulated by Jenn. I can’t believe how it must feel to be you. If I had known everything that was going on I would have gotten involved sooner.”

The second pivotal moment: another ex boyfriend of Jenn’s came forward and, despite fearing that Jenn would attack him publicly as well, made a statement to the court that Jenn had been abusive and extremely delusional with him too, even scaring his young child. He also said that Jenn believed I had her under satellite surveillance and routinely hacked her phone calls impersonating other people. She would only talk via video chat to ensure that she was talking to this man. She believed that any voice only calls could be me impersonating him with a voice device. She was also unable to tell truth from delusion.

Quote:

These psychological issues became apparent during the third pivotal moment, her deposition. Jenn arrived so late to her deposition that her own attorneys weren’t sure if she would show up. She appeared drugged, and admitted that she had taken a strong antipsychotic medication before the deposition. She was prescribed and taking a variety of antipsychotic/bipolar/depression drugs, including at least Seroquel, Abilify, Lexapro and Trazodone.

Her lawyers then ended the deposition hours early. Jenn thereafter retracted her statements and apologized to me.

With Jenn’s retraction and apology, obviously without receiving anything from me in return, I agreed to dismiss this lawsuit. This – the truth – is what I and everyone deserves, and is all I’ve asked for from the beginning.

I’m going to try to move forward with my life now. I’m lucky to have had the support of family and friends. And most importantly, a loving partner who has stuck with me throughout this ordeal (and who had to remove large parts of her life from the Internet when Jenn because abusive towards her, too).

They say that whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I can say with certainty that is not true. My goal now is to try to continue seeing the world as a fundamentally good place. It will be something I struggle with for the rest of my life, but I’m confident that I’ll find a way.

Update: Scott Sullivan-Reinhart, the person I mentioned above who was brave enough to speak out about Jenn’s behavior, has made a public statement on his Facebook page:

Scott's sympathetic facebook post is disgusting. Insert cuntface has x mental disorder is the get out of jail free card in the modern era.

It's like no one is even responsible for their negative actions anymore. this b1tch needs a good smack and told to go fix herself alone