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Peter Thiel's Lawyer Wants To Silence Reporting On Trump's Hair (gawker.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Follow the report that Gawker has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after facing multiple lawsuits funded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, it's being reported that Thiel's lawyer, Charles J. Harder, is threatening to sue Gawker for reporting on the company that made Donald Trump's hair, claiming copyright prohibits Gawker from republishing his threat. He sent the company a letter on behalf of Edward Ivari, the owner of the company Gawker suggests may be behind Trump's hair. Gawker said it was sent a six-page letter that claims the story "was 'false and defamatory,' invaded Ivari's privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional distress, and committed 'tortious interference' with Ivari's business relations." Gawker reporter Ashley Feinberg suggested in a lengthy Gawker story that Trump secretly underwent Ivari International's $60,000 "microcylinder intervention" treatment, with the company's offices located on the 25th floor of Trump Tower. Gawker called Ivari's claims "ridiculous," and noted that the statements at issue were pulled from his own publicity materials and from public records of a 2001 lawsuit against the company.

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  1. Re:Really? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    This matters? WTH?

    With everything going on in the tech world should we be worried about a lawsuit about Trumps hair?

    IP news is always a hot topic here...

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  2. Re:News for Nerds? by the_Bionic_lemming · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, this is even worse than the media trying to make bush admit he did cocaine, and giving obama the pass since he mentioned in his book he did cocaine.

    So, Hillary, wig or no wig? No one wants to know....

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  3. Re:Serious question .... why any body cares? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does anybody really cares about the brand of fake hair piece Trump is using?

    It does say something about his judgement that he wears that thing in public and thinks it looks OK. I mean, there are expensive rugs that look really good and you can't tell. If dude is so rich and cares so much about his appearance, why would he go out looking like a troll doll with radiation poisoning? I mean, Charles Nelson-Reilly had a better hairpiece than The Donald. On the other hand, if Trump does NOT really care about his appearance, then why spend all the time and energy and expense to cover up the fact that he's bald?

    Here's a great American president who didn't spend $60k on a bad weave:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

    Not only was he such a bad-ass that he kicked Hitler's ass, but he led this country into an era when we actually became great, and did not give one single fuck about the fact that he was losing his hair. He was like the presidential version of Dwayne Johnson. And let me tell you, 63% of American women have not said they will never vote for Dwayne Johnson the way they have about Trump. Hell, 63% of American men would probably give Dwayne Johnson an enthusiastic reach-around if he asked right now. That's how cool and manly bald-ass Dwayne Johnson is, like Ike.

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  4. Hidden Technology by Archfeld · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have it on good authority that Trumps' hair is actually a Bio-Engineered organism that acts both as a self defense system and as a satellite reception system allowing him to send and receive signals from low earth orbit satellites. In the event of a physical attack the hair piece will intercept and deflect bullets up to .50.
    It is an unverified rumor that Trump will name his hair piece as his running mate and potential Vice President.

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    errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
  5. Company caught on video by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Funny
  6. Re:Really? by Carewolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know what else would be hot? Trump's PUBIC hair

    I doubt he has any. He is just using a combover from his ass.