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Alex Jones Could Lose His Infowars Platform To Pay For Sandy Hook Conspiracy Lawsuit

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With a bankruptcy judge scheduled to decide whether to liquidate his assets to help pay the $1.5 billion he owes for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones looks to be on the verge of losing the Infowars media platform that he turned into a multimillion-dollar moneymaker over the past 25 years.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston has a hearing set for Friday morning.

Jones has been informing his radio listeners and web viewers that the bankruptcy is almost causing Infowars’ parent firm, Free Speech Systems, to close. Along with directing them to a new website of his father’s business if they wish to keep purchasing the nutritional supplements he promotes on his show, he has also been encouraging people to download recordings from his online archive in order to preserve them.

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Alex Jones Could Lose His Infowars Platform To Pay For Sandy Hook Conspiracy Lawsuit

On his broadcast on Wednesday, Jones declared, “I think it’s very accurate to say Infowars is a sinking ship.” He later added that he might lose the firm in a matter of hours or days.

“Infowars will live on through all the great work we’ve done, all the reports we’ve filed, through your saving and sharing them, and of course I will come back stronger than ever,” he declared. I shall, however, remain on board the ship until it completely sinks. I shall then board the following ship at the last minute.

Assets of Jones would be sold off in a liquidation. Furthermore, Jones can lose all copyrights, Infowars, Free Speech Systems, and the company’s social media profiles. The finer points are still to be decided. Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, and other Jones followers have hinted that they would try to purchase Infowars.

Prior to Friday’s hearing, messages were left for Jones and Free Speech Systems’ bankruptcy attorneys requesting reaction. The most recent court financial reports show that Jones has around $9 million in personal assets and $4 million in cash on hand for his company.

After family members of many victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which killed 20 first graders and six teachers, received lawsuit verdicts of more than $1.4 billion in Connecticut and $49 million in Texas, Jones and Austin, Texas-based Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022.

Lawyers representing the Sandy Hook families have been pursuing liquidation.

“Doing this will enable the Connecticut families to enforce their $1.4 billion in judgments now and into the future while also depriving Jones of the ability to inflict mass harm as he has done for some 25 years,” said Chris Mattei, a lawyer for the Connecticut family.

According to the family, Jones’ remarks and the deeds of his supporters left them terrified. They testified to being threatened and harassed by followers of Jones, some of whom personally approached the bereaved family and said the shooting never happened and their children never lived. Someone threatened to dig up his dead son’s grave, according to one parent.

Originally, Jones and Free Speech Systems sought bankruptcy reorganization protection, which would have let him operate Infowars and pay the families with show earnings. But since the two sides were unable to come to a final agreement, Jones recently requested authorization to convert his personal bankruptcy from a reorganization to a liquidation.

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Alex Jones Could Lose His Infowars Platform To Pay For Sandy Hook Conspiracy Lawsuit

Eight dead children’s and adult relatives are among the families in the Connecticut complaint who are requesting that Free Speech Systems’ separate bankruptcy case be likewise turned into a liquidation. The parents in the Texas lawsuit, whose six-year-old son Jesse Lewis passed away, however, want the company’s complaint to be dropped.

The company’s lawyers submitted paperwork showing they backed liquidation, but on Wednesday, Jones’s personal bankruptcy case lawyers filed a motion stating that Jones opposes the plan and that he wants the company’s case dismissed.

Free Speech Systems may find itself back in the same situation it was in following the $1.5 billion verdict in the lawsuits if its case is dismissed. Returning to the state courts in Connecticut and Texas would be the efforts to recover the damages. That might give Infowars a longer shelf life while collecting attempts were underway.

Despite his later admission that the Sandy Hook shooting occurred, Jones has been claiming on his most recent broadcasts that Democrats and the “deep state” are working together to destroy his businesses and revoke his freedom of expression due to his opinions. The Sandy Hook families are being utilized as pawns in the plot, he has further stated. The solicitors for the families contend that is absurd.

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Alex Jones Could Lose His Infowars Platform To Pay For Sandy Hook Conspiracy Lawsuit

The most current financial documents submitted to the bankruptcy court show that Jones individually owns assets of around $9 million, which includes his $2.6 million Austin-area house and other real estate.

He said that for April alone, his living costs came to nearly $69,000, including $16,500 for house charges.
Employing 44 people, Free Speech Systems reported $1.9 million in expenses in April and almost $3.2 million in revenue from the sale of apparel, dietary supplements, and other products that Jones promotes on his show.

In a Texas case now ongoing, the families accuse Jones of concealing and unlawfully transferring millions of dollars. Jones has shot down the claims.

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Jason Kelce Smashes Football Fan’s Phone

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Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce destroyed a Penn State football fan’s phone after the alleged heckler called his brother, Travis Kelce, a fag.

In now-viral footage published on X (previously Twitter) on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles great was seen accompanied by football fans outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game.

As the individual capturing the tape lifted a fist to Jason, 36, and called his name for a fist bump, another man nearby hurled the homophobic slur at the retired Philadelphia Eagles star.

Hey, Kelce. How does it feel that your brother is a queer dating Taylor Swift?” the man questioned, referring to Travis, 34, who has been seeing Swift since 2023. Jason turned around seconds later, snatched the man’s phone, and crushed it to the ground.

“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the original X user who submitted the video remarked. “Wild scene in State College.”

Additional footage on X shows Jason smashing the phone on asphalt before picking it up and walking away. The phone’s owner, wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, was shown in many videos strolling closely behind Jason and recording him before the conflict occurred.

Another footage published on X, which appears to have been filmed after Jason shattered the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State supporter trudging through a mob to pick up his phone off the ground.

“Give me my phone, bro,” he seemed to say to Jason.

The NFL alum seized the gadget first, then stood in front of the man and asked, “Who’s the fag now?” Others appeared to interfere.

The incident occurred while Jason was at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes won Saturday’s game 20-13 over the Penn State Nittany Lions.

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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

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Shaun White, the Olympic snowboarding champion, already has an impressive medal tally, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev deserves a gold medal.

On Wednesday, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Dobrev posted photographs of the two hugging under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.

“RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev said in the caption.

However, the photographs only tell half the tale, as Shaun devised an elaborate plan to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.

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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

According to a Vogue interview published Wednesday, Shaun said he assembled a team of people from the couple’s inner circle and Vogue personnel to trick Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to an intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour.

White claimed that his publicist emailed Dobrev a forged invitation to the event, which was scheduled to take place at the Golden Swan in New York City.

Dobrev accepted the invitation, joking that Shaun made it “look so legitimate.”

He even asked Dobrev’s stylist to outfit her in Chanel for the event.

Dobrev said she recognized what was happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing beneath the flowery arch.

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Shaun’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

“I went into shock,” Dobrev admitted, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she agreed.

According to the publication, after Shaun proposed, the couple partied into the early morning hours with close friends and relatives.

“Best night of my life,” Shaun captioned his Instagram story on Wednesday.

The duo first became romantically involved in 2020, and they have since publicly recorded their relationship, globe vacations, and White’s Olympic farewell on social media.

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Hollywood Actress Teri Garr Passes Away at 79

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Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," has passed away at 79.

Hollywood actress Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has passed away at 79. She died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer.

Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made everything she was in better.”

Throughout her career, the performer, often known as Terri, Terry, or Terry Ann, seemed destined for show business from a young age.

Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comic, and her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dancing classes at six and was performing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies by age fourteen.

She was 16 years old when she joined the road crew of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and she began starring in small roles in films as early as 1963.

In an interview from 1988, she described how she landed the role in “West Side Story.” After being rejected at her initial audition, she returned the following day dressed differently and was accepted.

Teri Garr, a comedian

Teri Garr then found steady work as a movie dancer, appearing in the chorus of nine Elvis Presley films, including “Viva Las Vegas,” “Roustabout,” and “Clambake.”

She has also appeared on various television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance “T.A.M.I.,” and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”

Her breakthrough role was as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller The Conversation. This led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who offered her the Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant role in Young Frankenstein if she could speak with a German accent.

“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once said.

The film established her as a great comic performer, with New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael calling her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on screen.”

Her big smile and off-center appeal helped her land roles in “Oh, God!” with George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife), and “Tootsie,” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and discovers he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career.

 A gift for spontaneous humor

Teri Garr, best known for comedy, has shown in films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Black Stallion, and The Escape Artist that she can also tackle drama.

She had a gift for spontaneous humor, frequently playing David Letterman’s foil during early guest appearances on N.B.C.’s “Late Night With David Letterman”.

Her appearances grew so frequent, and the pair’s good-natured bickering so convincing that rumors of romantic involvement circulated for a while. Years later, Letterman acknowledged those early appearances with helping the program become a success.

During those years, Garr began to experience “a little beeping or ticking” in her right leg. It started in 1983 and expanded to her right arm, but she thought she could handle it. By 1999, her symptoms had gotten so bad that she saw a doctor and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

After disclosing her diagnosis, Garr became a spokesman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, giving hilarious remarks at events in the United States and Canada.

Source: AP

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