Judge orders media reporter Yashar Ali to pay $230K to Getty heiress after he stuffed her on loan

This will not end well.

But he's deEPLy DeEPLy dePrESseD!!!!

Where did he stuff her, OP?

She Balthazar's aunt.

Yikes - what did Balthazar Getty do to his face.

what's up with Balty's face.....and Balty's hair......

But what about the elephants?!

Just more evidence that Twitter was the worst thing ever, and only considers to worsen, and deserves to die in a grease fire.

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I'll never forget his stupid Twitter profile photo filtered to hell and back that looked nothing like his real face, with the hoodie carefully obscuring the baldness and the neck rolls. Everyone was shocked when they finally saw him on TV. And then his hard pivot to saving the elephants when his brand was tanking. Grifters of all stripes make me want to puke.

[quote]“He’s been evicted from multiple residences, defaulted on several loans and has racked up tens of thousands of dollars in tax liens,” the outlet reported.

[quote]It also said he “preferred to live in the homes of generous friends” rather than have a fixed address. “But sometimes he overstays his welcome,” according to LA Magazine.

[quote]One of those friends was comedian Kathy Griffin, whom Ali befriended over social media in 2017 after Griffin was ousted from her job at CNN over a photo shoot where she posed with a prop resembling the bloody decapitated head of Donald Trump.

[quote]Ali reportedly became Griffin’s unofficial publicist and agreed to work with her in exchange for housing and use of a car.

[quote]He lived in her 13,000-square-foot Bel-Air mansion for nine months before he was asked to leave.

[quote]According to LA Magazine, two of Griffin’s part-time assistants oversaw Ali as he packed his belongings.

[quote]Griffin was thought to be “uncomfortable and maybe even afraid” of her house guest.

Sounds like a weird dude.

And, wow, Kathy's rich.

Yashar tried to sue LA Magazine for their profile with SLAPP motions and has been denied twice, so he owes LA Mag $40,000 for their attorney fees now on top of having to pay the heiress back. And now Yashar's attorney who also reps Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon has dropped him.

From Confider:

"EXCLUSIVE — YASHAR GETS DUMPED: Twitter personality and journalist Yashar Ali, who is suing Los Angeles magazine for defamation over an extremely embarrassing 2021 profile, is being dropped by his high-profile attorney. Bryan Freedman, the bigwig lawyer currently repping fired TV stars Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson, filed a notice of motion to be relieved as Ali’s counsel earlier this month, according to documents obtained and reviewed by Confider. In a Dec. 4 motion filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Freedman claimed there’d “been an irreconcilable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship” with Ali. Freedman further alleged that Ali “refuses to communicate” with his attorneys, making it impossible to “effectively represent” the social-media influencer with nearly a million followers between his Twitter and IG accounts. “Ali has not signed a substitution of attorney resulting in the need for the filing of this Motion,” Freedman made sure to point out in his declaration.

A year after LA mag published a lengthy piece portraying Ali as a debt-ridden, couch-surfing “grifter” sponging off wealthy celebs, he sued the outlet and alleged that he wasn’t given a fair opportunity to respond to the accusations. He also took issue with the article’s claim he’d become suicidal during the fact-checking process, saying it “falsely implies that [Ali] acknowledged the truth of the supposed revelations in the article and was distraught that the public was going to learn the supposed truth about him.” The magazine’s then-editor Maer Roshan, however, responded that the “article was rigorously fact-checked and legally vetted, and by prior agreement with Yashar, every quote of his that appeared in the story was approved by him.” The case itself is barely on life support. An LA County judge granted two of the outlet’s three anti-SLAPP motions in January, and has since ordered Ali to pay nearly $40,000 of the magazine’s attorney’s fees. What’s left of Ali’s suit is scheduled to go to trial in late 2024. Earlier this year, a court ordered Ali to forfeit all of his future earnings to oil heiress Ariadne Getty, who lent Ali roughly $179,000, which he failed to pay back—a dispute detailed in the LA mag article. In recent months, Ali has re-embraced his role as one of the most prominent news figures in social media, especially after he tweeted a compilation of TikTok users sharing Osama Bin Laden’s “Letter to America”—prompting attention to the document to explode far beyond its actual virality. Ali declined to comment. Freedman did not respond to a request for comment."

[quote] Following Clinton's defeat in the United States presidential election, 2008, Ali relocated from Los Angeles to San Francisco, securing a position on Gavin Newsom's 2010 gubernatorial campaign, before Newsom dropped out of the race. Ali was later appointed as Newsom's deputy chief of staff.

(Through his work in Newsom's office, Ali befriended oil heiress Ariadne Getty and began borrowing large sums of money from her)

The conman was a natural fit for Newsom's inner circle

Dont know anything about this guy but went down the rabbit hole. Don’t like that he seems to use his influence to settle his, and his friends’, personal vendettas.

He reminds me of a lazier, low-energy George Santos.