Law and Crime
A federal court on Monday dismissed actor Michael Rapaport’s defamation and breach of contract lawsuit against Barstool Sports and the popular website’s founder Dave Portnoy.
The dispute centered around Rapaport’s relatively brief tenure at Barstool as a podcast host and content producer. Exactly eight months into the one-year agreement, Portnoy fired the actor — citing an online series of back-and-forth insults between Rapaport and Barstool’s Adam Smith.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) sums up that initial contretemps as “an argument between Rapaport and Smith over Rapaport’s supposed failure to pay Smith for bets lost on fantasy football and an amateur boxing match.”
During the bitter Twitter feud, Rapaport accused Smith of taking steroids. In turn, Smith called Rapaport a “loser” and “fraud” and suggested he didn’t pay his gambling debts. A random Barstool reply guy then chimed in “urging Barstool to take a poll of Rapaport’s popularity among fans of Barstool,” who are colloquially known as “stoolies,” the court noted. Rapaport responded by insulting the fan.
“[I]f you call yourself a fucking stoolie for real, you’ve already lost in life,” he tweeted.
Portnoy fired Rapaport the next day via text message and later that same day posted a video to Twitter announcing that Barstool had fired Rapaport for “insult[ing Barstool’s] entire fucking fanbase.”
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald recounted what happened next in vulgar and (to some commentators’ surprise) graphic detail: read more
Damn popups make it through my ad-blocker, security software, and VPN. Then they open a new tab for themselves. Grrr.
A lot of happy lawyers from that!
Just more superfluous bull shit!
What exactly is Rapaport’s skill set besides being irritating and loud?
He really hated Trump so the question is ; How’s the new guy asshole?
Michael Rapaport is a mother cluckin irrelevant piece of shit.
I believe he is indeed herpes-ridden and probably has a few more std’s too. Just look at him.
Other than BSS being anti-2A it’s a great site with funny people.
If you bred Rapaport and Mickey Rourke you’d have the worlds largest useless asshole. Right now they share that title. I find it interesting Rapaport couldn’t even hold down that job. Pro Tip, when some one accuses you of taking Steroids it means you’ve officially physically scared the shit out of them.
It must have been true, then…..
I used to really enjoy Rapaport’s performances back in the 80s. He was really good, especially for a midget.
Sadly, Adam Smith is expected to lose the slander suit filed against him by an actual herpes-having piece of shit for comparing it to Michael Rappaport.
The truth is always a defense to defamation.
Relax and take two Dulcolax…
“The truth is always a defense to defamation.”
That really sucks.
The Articles of Confederation are merely put on the back burner in favor of the Constitution. Why..? The Articles of Confederation require very responsible people to make it be what it was meant to be. It’s true the only Constitution viable is one that is respected by it’s people.
Treason and sedition are rewarded in the United States.