{"id":81940,"date":"2015-12-11T09:52:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T17:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81940"},"modified":"2015-12-11T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T19:36:23","slug":"bret-easton-ellis-on-james-deen-rape-claims-a-ridiculous-witch-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81940","title":{"rendered":"Bret Easton Ellis on James Deen Rape Claims: “A Ridiculous Witch Hunt”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What do you make of the allegations of rape and abuse being leveled against James Deen?<\/p>\n

This whole thing is a ridiculous witch hunt. Most of the people in James\u2019 close circle know that this is a wild distortion, a lie on Stoya\u2019s part. And when this evidence comes out with texts and emails, it\u2019s going to prove everyone who is #solidaritywithstoya to be ashamed of themselves. So I think that\u2019s part of the problem.<\/p>\n

What evidence?<\/p>\n

Evidence that James has in terms of texts. Threats. This has been going on with Stoya for a while. I\u2019ve known James before Stoya, I\u2019ve known him during Stoya. I traveled to Europe with them. I have seen firsthand what was going on in that relationship \u2014 and this is a very unstable person. And the threats in texts and emails that James has is part of the reason why he\u2019s remaining kind of cool about this. Because this is all going to come out \u2014 that she has threatened rape claims against him at other times in the relationship.<\/p>\n

The fact that these tweets are posted on the day that James and his new girlfriend buy a house is not a coincidence. That alone \u2014 that Stoya was not happy that the relationship ended but James felt that he had to get out of it. And she has been very vocal about how much she was in love with him and has called him her “heroin” at one point. The very fact that on the day that James buys a house with his girlfriend, she tweets this, what do you think? Is that enough? <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s certainly a heavy accusation to make of someone in the space of two tweets. But then it did open the floodgates to other accusations, if not of rape, of some dangerously abusive behavior.<\/p>\n

In the porn world! And BDSM invite-only parties! What are we talking about? Is everyone nuts? Is everyone so hungry for a witch hunt \u2014 does James arouse such complicated feelings in people \u2014 that this is the endgame? I don\u2019t know, what do you think? Does [MTV’s Teen Mom star and Deen screen partner] Farrah Abraham coming along and saying, “Yeah, I guess I was raped too” \u2014 doesn\u2019t that kind of invalidate everything? I don\u2019t know! I\u2019m asking you this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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