The Victim of the Fox News Central Park Road-Rager Speaks!
The cyclist who says he was dragged around Central Park by a Fox News writer, who won't face any charges in the incident, tells us neither cops or prosecutors tried very hard to investigate the incident. Speaking to Gawker today, Dooda says, "I'm shocked that there's not anything illegal about what he did." Dooda was allegedly dragged for four city blocks on the hood of Fox Newser Don Broderick's car—which had New York Press license plates, owing to his status as a Fox News employee—two months ago after the two got into a traffic altercation. Multiple witnesses saw Dooda begging for his life on the car's hood before Dooda managed to climb off and Broderick fled the scene. The police were called, Dooda filed a complaint, and the NYPD arrested Broderick and charged him with leaving the scene of an accident with a personal injury on June 12. And then yesterday, for mystifying reasons, the Manahttan district attorney's office told us that it was declining to prosecute Broderick. Dooda says he never heard from the DA assigned to his case until last week, when she told him that his case was getting tossed. "I said, 'I have so many eyewitnesses saying that this guy was trying to run me over—doesn't that count for something?' She said, 'No.'" The DA's explanation is that it can't prove that Dooda, whose elbow was scratched and bleeding after the incident, was injured. "She said she couldn't charge him criminally with anything unless I was injured, and that a scuffed elbow wasn't enough." To hear Dooda tell it, the NYPD and the Manhattan DA never took the incident very seriously. Dooda heard from an NYPD detective not long after the attack—he took photos of the scratches on Dooda's elbow and took down a statement. "I don't think he ever investigated any of it," Dooda says. Even though Broderick was arrested and charged not long after that, Dooda says he didn't hear from the detective again until two weeks ago, and it seemed like he hadn't done much investigating in the intervening months. "He didn't know that Gawker had talked to Broderick and admitted that there had been an altercation," Dooda says. (We tracked Broderick down in June, and he told us that Dooda had attacked him.) The detective wouldn't even confirm to Dooda that Broderick had been arrested—something that the NYPD told Gawker two months ago. "He was being very secretive," Dooda says. Indeed, Broderick's case has been handled strangely from the beginning: After his arrest, he was given a court date in July. Gawker attended what was supposed to be Broderick's appearance before a judge, but Broderick was called out of the courtroom by a bailiff before his appearance and never returned. When we asked the bailiff where Broderick went, we were told that the case had been delayed and his appearance needed to be rescheduled. On an almost daily basis since then, we called the Manhattan DA's office for updates on the case, and were told variously that the case was... MORE >>
A Few Hidden Details in the McSteamy Chat à Trois Video
We've only watched the Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart, Kari Anne Peniche naked chat à trois video a few hundred times. After a while things started jumping out at us. So we sifted through to see if there's anything we missed. First of all, we found the dress that Gayheart wears (briefly) at the the beginning of the movie. It's a Halloween costume called the "Support Our Troops Sexy Halloween Costume." Well, don't you worry, there is no sexy here! As for Dane's pornstar name, Cocaine Manor, that could be true. There really is a Manor Drive in San Carlos, California, which is right near where he graduated from high school. Still no explanation on how he ended up with a dog named cocaine. Thanks to some of the commenters, we gave a closer look to minute 2:54, where a random table is on view for a few seconds (sideways, natch). What is on the table? Another camera (ha!), a vase, a pack of cigs, a wineglass a candle, and something that looks suspiciously like a pipe. It's on the right, and it has a cylindrical shaft and a bulbous head. But it appears to be resting on something, so it's either inactive (you ever put a recently used pipe on something? Disaster usually ensues) or, you know, something else. More suspicious is the cigarette that Gayheart and Peniche are smoking starting about 1:25. They both hold onto it for quite a bit of time, but no smoke is coming off it and it doesn't appear to get getting even smaller. Also, the tip seems to be glowing blue. Is it just not lit, or is it a "magic cigarette?" Or maybe it's one of these? MORE >>
Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
Last night we mentioned a creepy auction of the Plato's Retreat-era marble fixtures that adorned Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione's notorious apartment. Here, from the auction house's web site, is a visual taste of how the Gooch lived in his heyday. Auctioneers hoped these marble toilets would go for up to $5,000 apiece; they sold for $200. If you bought these, please use a lot of bleach before you install them. Now this is the kind of "art" you'd expect to see in the Gooch's pad. The auction house's web site describes them as "molded plastic with high releif [sic] neoclassical female busts with sun ray crowns." Yes, those are a lot of female busts. For more pictures of the gaudy things that Bob Guccione hosted orgies on and around, go here, here, here, here, here, and here. MORE >>
Let's Discuss Bernie 'Winky Dink' Madoff's Penis Size
Sheryl Weinstein was pretty broken up when she lost millions to Bernie Madoff, who was also her secret lovahhhhhh. But now she's telling the world all the sexy details of Bernie sexy time, in a book, for satisfaction, and riches. Hello, the New York Daily News got a copy of "Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me" (out August 25!) and did a quickie read mostly looking for the sexy passages, and slapped that mutha right on the cover of the paper! And by 'mutha' we mean "Bernie Madoff had a little dick, she says." Weinstein, who has known Madoff for two decades, said she was stunned the first time they had sex in late 1993. "... This man was not well-endowed," said Weinstein, who was once a top executive with the Jewish women's group Hadassah and lost her life savings with Madoff The victim's revenge! Justice is served! Weinstein clarifies, though: "When we made love, I was on fire." Looks like the only problem was you and your small penis, Bernie Madoff! Weinstein says they liked to meet up in hotels, drink vodka, take baths, smoke weed, get massages, and then make sweet sweet love. It was so sweet that she and her friends nicknamed Bernie "Winky Dink." Weinstein, btw, is still married, to a very understanding man. [Also another book says Bernie slept with a bunch of secretaries, which is just further proof of Ruth Madoff's total innocence.] MORE >>
Obama 'Joker' Artist a Palestinian Arab from Chicago
You know those posters of Obama looking like the Joker from Batman with the word "socialism" underneath? The creator of that creepy image has emerged, and it's not some "real" American from a red state. Far from it. According to the LA Times, the perpetrator is a 20-year-old University of Chicago Illinois student named Firas Alkhateeb who made the image during his winter break from school using PhotoShop, naturally: Alkhateeb had been tinkering with the program to improve the looks of photos he had taken on his clunky Kodak camera. The Joker project was his grandest undertaking yet. Using a tutorial he'd found online about how to "Jokerize" portraits, he downloaded the October 23 Time Magazine cover of Obama and began digitally painting over it. Four or five hours later, he happily had his product. Alkhateeb says that he then posted the image to his Flickr page where it sat largely unnoticed for a couple of months. Then an unknown individual found the photo, removed all of the references to Time, added the word "socialism" across the bottom of the image and posted it all over the streets of Los Angeles. The original image was found on Alkhateeb's Flickr by the LA Times after they were tipped off to it by a reader, but he closed the account after they contacted him because he wanted to "lay low" in the "very, very liberal" city from which Barack Obama's political career was sprung. "After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ," Alkhateeb said. "From my perspective, there wasn't much substance to him." "I abstained from voting in November," he wrote in an e-mail. "Living in Illinois, my vote means close to nothing as there was no chance Obama would not win the state." If he had to choose a politician to support, Alkhateeb said, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich. So yeah, good luck wrapping your brain around this one. MORE >>
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