![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The website was once known for chronicling the insular world of the New York media scene and later became a sort of “national tabloid,” combining weird crime stories with celebrity gossip, caustic commentary and the occasional investigative scoop. Other websites in the Gawker Media stable have fairly specific identities - Deadspin is focused on sports, Jezebel is focused on women, Gizmodo is focused on technology - but has defied classification. has always been a difficult site to pin down. We basically created a campaign controversy out of a pretty dumb joke.” “We almost backed our way into the national conversation that way. Before we even realized that it worked, we woke up and he was talking about it on Meet the Press,” Gawker Media executive editor John Cook told POLITICO. “We had a silly idea about creating a bot to tweet Mussolini quotes at Trump. ( POLITICO did, too.)įor, it was a dream come true.Īs editor in chief Alex Pareene later explained in a blog post, the website had decided in late November to create a Twitter bot that exclusively tweeted quotes from Mussolini that were attributed to Trump, in the hopes that Trump might eventually mistake one of them for something he actually said and retweet it to his followers. Gawker founder and chief executive Nick Denton recently told the New York Times that his company ‘would not run’ without Ms Dietrick’s efforts: ‘She’s the person who holds everything together,’ he said.The exchange dominated the political news cycle for the rest of the day, with outlets from The New York Times to conservative blogs picking up the story. Gawker general counsel and president Heather Dietrick has labeled Mr Harder’s request on behalf of Mr Ivari that the article be retracted as ‘vastly overbroad’ and has emphasised that Mr Harder ‘took no issue with the central thesis of the piece – that Mr Ivari has worked on Donald Trump’s hair.’ In light of the barrage of legal challenges currently being aimed at Gawker, Ms Dietrick has stepped up to take an enhanced leadership role in the company. However, Gawker has been quick to counter that many of the ‘misleading’ statements cited in Ivari’s complaint are in fact pulled directly from the company’s own website and promotional materials. Harder sent on behalf of Ivari owner Edward Ivari claims the piece contains as many as 19 false and defamatory claims and constitutes ‘tortious interference with actual and prospective business relations.’ The company is threatening formal legal action against Gawker unless it retracts the article and issues an apology. Ivari International is reportedly considering legal action against Gawker after the publication ran a feature-length article about Mr Trump’s hair and the costly treatments behind its upkeep.Īccording to the article, titled ‘Is Donald Trump’s hair a $60,000 Weave? A Gawker Investigation,’ Mr Trump has spent tens of thousands of dollars on a hair restoration treatment called ‘microcylinder intervention’ that is only available at Ivari International. The lawyer representing wrestling icon Hulk Hogan in his prolific legal battle with Gawker Media has threatened the media company with yet another lawsuit – this time, from the hair treatment clinic behind Donald Trump’s much-debated blonde combover. ![]()
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