Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Is Stephanie Adams a Lying, Bullying Bigot?

We are by no means setting out to give a definitive answer to that question, but we do intend to provide some compelling evidence that would seem to suggest that the above statement may be true.

One of the truly wonderful things about being sued is that if Martin Siegel ever actually comes up with anything more than a summons, we get to do a fun little thing called "discovery". That's where we get to find answers to these and many more questions about Ms. Adams. She has to provide all the documents we need to defend ourselves against this baseless lawsuit. And we plan on defending ourselves diligently even if it means keeping Martin Siegel and the law clerks at Brown Rudnick very busy.

One thing we know is true, Ms. Adams was a Playboy Playmate...14 years ago. Although you might think it was last month if you went to her website as much as she mentions it. In fact it's the first thing she lists to describe herself, "Playboy Centerfold - Spokesmodel - Celebrity Author". I graduated high school in 1992, maybe I should plaster that on the front page of all my websites.

Playboy does maintain the philosophy of "once a playmate always a playmate" so I wonder if Playboy would condone their playmate behaving in such a despicable manner.

As you all know Stephanie Adams is suing BlogNYC for defamation, libel, slander and false statements among other things. All of which is intended to scare us away. Although suing someone for all three of those things is sort of like suing someone for walking fast, jogging and running slowly.

The lawsuit came about when we did a write up about Stephanie Adams suing the NYPD for $5 million for use of excessive force after she allegedly lost her temper and threatened a cab driver (keep that in mind it will come in handy later).

While we were at first excited that Stephanie Adams broke our cherry and decided to sue us, we were a little let down that this wasn't her first go around with madness. It all started with this letter from Martin Siegel of the highly esteemed Brown Rudnick law firm in Manhattan. Then it seemed to just spiral out of control.

First off, we have already shown that either Stephanie Adams or someone using the goddessy mailing system and the same IP address as well as claiming to be her PR department is the same person who also posted in our comments section, under at least four different names. One of the comments being, "Get your hands out of your pants and use it to scroll down her web site for a change," (that too will come in handy later).

Second of all, the e-mails and the fake comments all took place right around the time Stephanie Adams herself was posting on her MySpace site calling me an "amateur" and asking for people to come and "bash us" and saying that "good always defeats evil".

On her website goddessy.com Ms. Adams sells advertisements. $300 (for three months) or $100 (one month special offer). We're still not quite sure how that's a special offer, but anyway...we clicked through nearly every page we could find on her site and didn't find one advertisement. The only reason why that's particularly odd is because on the site, Stephanie claims that goddessy has "millions of visitors from all over the world who come to our web site and our community is growing rapidly."

Who wouldn't want to advertise on a site with millions of visitors? I guess there seems to be some discrepancy between what she considers millions of visitors and what Alexa Traffic rankings considers millions of visitors. According to Alexa rankings (which ranks websites according to their traffic) goddessy.com is ranked 3,723,582. By comparison, our "amateur" site is ranked 36,173. That's about 3,687,400 higher than Ms. Adams' goddessy site which claims to have "millions of visitors" or if you're better with graphs you can take a look at the one below. BlogNYC is in red, and goddessy, where you can find it, is represented in blue. We aren't pulling in millions of visitors a month and we're still completely kicking the shit out of her website so you can only imagine how long it would take her site to get "millions of visits".

Way back in 2002 a certain website, which for now will remain nameless but can also be backed up by witnesses and documents, innocuously criticized Stephanie for using "blue text on a black background" making her website difficult to read. What followed was three years of torment and threats from Ms. Adams. Along with posting the persons personal information all over the internet, they were subjected to e-mails with gems like these:

“You need glasses. The background is navy and the text is blue. You are no one but the old, ugly little Jew I met in Italy with Mario (who wishes you were Italian). Get a life and stop wishing you could be with me (or communicate with me) because not only are you are a troll, but you have too much time on your hands (when your small shriveled up dïck is not in them jerking off thinking about me).

Btw, neither the person who wrote the blog entry nor the person who e-mailed her were Jewish and to this day are clueless as to where that term came from.

"You are Mario’s jew friend. Why don’t you stop jerking off to me and buy a hooker!?"
GODDESSY makes over 70 million dollars a year and surely does not need the help of an amateur.
"Apparently, you have been looking up information on several of my web sites and are a deranged, ässhölë who came from a mother who was probably a hooker and a father who was probably an alcoholic. You sound like the type and any if you send any further e-mails, they will be forwarded to my security department, who by the way, WILL find out who you are, where you live and more. BEWARE!!!”
"By the way, you and your Jew friend are both old, poor, ugly, short, jealous, demented, lonely trolls who are still wishing you could be with a woman like me. You are so unworthy, you’re not even good enough for me to shït in your mouth. Try to be happy, if you can, because you will soon have to answer to my Uncle. It might not be directly, but from what he told me today, you will be getting the message soon… You will soon have your hands cut off for it.”
“Your daughter is going to grow up and become a crack whörë for men to fück her up her äss at $1 a pop. That’s what you taught her, Dïck!”
“You sound like a jealous fäg! Why don’t you get a sex change, Dicko?”

That's just a small sampling of what this person was put through for nearly three years.

Then there's the case of Stephanie Adams vs. Wikipedia. Apparently Stephanie was all in a frenzy because the Wikipedia entry about her mentioned that she offered Tarot card and love readings. She became so outraged that the moderators had to ban her for "personal attacks"

User GODDESSY is via her own admittance the person of who this Wikipedia article is about (Stephanie Adams). User Goddessy has been blocked and banned by several moderators and administrators. User Goddessy has made several severe Personal Attacks and been warned and kept attacking.

Also, if you do a DMOZ search for goddessy.com the result you get is, "Tarot Card Readings By Sorceress".

Does anyone else see a pattern here? In every instance we could find, and there are quite possibly many others, Stephanie Adams is the one who seems to have serious anger management issues. A blogger, Wikipedia, a cab driver, the NYPD, BlogNYC...there is one constant in all of these stories.

All rather odd behavior for someone who claims, on a poster of herself that she is trying to pawn off for twenty bucks on her website, "love = pride". Strange, because after reading all of this it would seem that Ms. Adams has very little of either.

Friday, June 23, 2006

You Got Served: BlogNYC Retains Legal Counsel to Defend Its Right to Free Speech and Squash the Frivolous Lawsuit Filed by Stephanie Adams

It's both a sad and happy day here at BlogNYC. My official reign of pretending to be my own lawyer has officially come to an end. My parents were so proud of my time as my own fake attorney. Alas, I have passed on the baton to a real attorney, One Mr. Neal Johnston of Johnston & Johnston LLP.

Here is the official BlogNYC response to Martin Siegel from the official attorney of BlogNYC (btw, that picture above is of me personally serving Martin Siegel with our response):

Martin S. Siegel, Esq.
Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
7 Times Square
New York, NY 10036

RE: Adams V. Poling

Dear Mr. Siegel:

I enclose a Notice of Appearance in connection with the above litigation. Please get me the Complaint as soon as you can.

In your letter to Mr. Poling you state that if he should fail to accept receipt of your email "summons" you "would have no choice but to ask [your] process server to serve [him] personally."

That statement is not exactly true. You have a number of other choices. You could serve him by mail, CPLR §312-a. You could whistle Dixie. Or you could swallow the $210 cost of the Index Number and turn your attention to something of slightly greater relevance to some issue of substantive justice.

I'm quite serious about the latter point. If you actually do come up with a complaint, I suspect it will be the most embarrasing single document to come out of Brown Rudnick this year - and the year is no longer young. I am reasonably confident that your firm will wind up looking considerably more foolish than does your client, and, unlike your client, you will not have the excuse of not knowing any better.

Sincerely yours,

Neal Johnston

Mr Johnston has taken pity on us and taken on our case pro bono and has been very supportive. There are however certain costs that we will have to come up with so don't be afraid to throw a few bucks in the defense fund to help us defend our right to free speech. And just in case Mr. Johnston needs any help, which I doubt, there are a few lawyers chomping at the bits to take on this case for free who have all said they more than willing to out in any way they can.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Stephanie Adams Sues BlogNYC, It's Official

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE "OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION" THAT SAYS SHE IS SUING IS FOR $100,000


Just got this via e-mail (note it was sent to james.the.lawyer@gmail.com) You can click here to see the backstory and why this Playmate who's already suing the NYPD is now suing us Also, a note that Dave pointed out in the comments, her lawyer is Martin Siegel the guy who represented Ken Lay in the Enron bankruptcy:

Dear Mr. Poling: Please be advised that, on June 20, 2006, Ms. Stephanie Adams started a law suit against you by the filing of a Summons with Notice in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Under the Court's procedure and statute, we are required to serve that summons upon you. Your last e-mail requested that we communicate with you at this e-mail address. However, I can only serve you with the summons by e-mail, as requested by you, instead of personal service, if you acknowledge in writing that "I acknowledge that, on June 22, 2006, I personally received the Summons with Notice, dated June 19,2006, in the case of Stephanie Adams v. James Poling, Index No. 108616/06, signed James Poling (manual signature required). In order to acknowledge service, you must return the signed acknowledgement to me by U. S. Mail, with your actual manual signature. An electronic signature is not sufficient under the rules- it must be a handwritten manual signature. If I do not receive an e-mail from you by 9:00 a.m., Friday, June 23, 2006, stating that you received the Summons and that you have sent a manually signed acknowledgement back to me by U. S. mail, I will have no choice but to ask our process server to serve you personally. Martin S. Siegel.

So yeah, anyone know any good free speech lawyers? Also, if you'd like to kick in a few bucks to our legal defense fund feel free, we can use all the help we can get.

Friday, June 16, 2006

BlogNYC's Official Reply to Stephanie Adams' Attorney Martin Siegel

Check out the Stephanie Adams archives for the full backstory leading up to this letter.

VIA EMAIL ONLY AS WE ARE TOO LAZY TO ACTUALLY MAIL THIS
Mr. Martin Siegel
Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
7 Times Square
New York, New York 10036

RE: Stephanie Adams vs. BlogNYC

Dear Mr. Siegel,

I am not an attorney but I will be acting as one on my own behalf until I find one I can pay in hugs and karma. While this is James Poling, the blogger, I am acting as James Poling the lawyer and ask that you refrain from any further correspondence with my client, James Poling the blogger. As you can see by new e-mail address, james.the.lawyer@gmail.com, I will now only accept any correspondence from you through that e-mail address. It really helps us keep things straight around here. Any correspondence to any other email address will not be acknowledged.

You claim that we claim to "own" Ms. Adams and we in turn claim that that claim is utterly preposterous. Not only is it illegal to own people, we find even the suggestion morally reprehensible, and even if you could own people, which thank God you cannot, we would never, ever own Ms. Adams.

You furthermore claim that we claim that Ms. Adams communicated with us personally, again, we claim that your claim is absolutely without merit. Although we may have unknowingly communicated with her and just not known it, you may be on to something there. According to Amazon.com her Book GODDESSY: 2007 Psychic Reading Predictions for Every Astrological Birth Sign claims that "Unlike most horoscopes or readings, these predictions apply to every individual, regardless of religion, race, sex or sexual preference. You know your past. You know your present. Allow me to tell you your future. GODDESSY is the first ever to bring you Yearly Psychic Reading Predictions in a book format." If she could do that, it is quite possible that we have unknowingly communicated with her on a level which we can not yet comprehend.

You say that Ms. Adams has authorized you to commence legal action against my client, James Poling the blogger. That makes us laugh as we will demonstrate here...lol...lol...lol. My client is a very busy and very important blogger and does not have the time to be pretending to be his own lawyer.

If you feel from what you have said that you actually have a case against my client (which is actually me the blogger) then not only do I fear for the well being of your law firm, I say bring it on. My client is a good and decent citizen, for the most part, and will not be intimidated into giving up his right to free speech by a woman who claims to be a "Sorceress" and uses bullying lawyers to try and intimidate people with her baseless lawsuits.

Good day to you Sir.

I said Good day to you Sir!

Very Truly Yours,

James Poling (the lawyer)


*DISCLAIMER: I am not in any way a lawyer, but for the context of this letter I play one since I am technically still representing myself.

Anyone Know a Good Attorney?


We do admit that we do not "own" Stephanie Adams, it's a phrase that's popular on the internets with the kids, it's all tounge and cheek. If we did own her however we would sell her off at a very discounted price, to anyone willing to take her, but we don't. Own her.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Stephanie Adams Gets Owned by BlogNYC

So if you've been following the titillating coverage of Stephanie Adams and her vendetta against BlogNYC you may have seen some of the comments left by a few of her "supporters".

One of the other commenters, Hammer, asked the valid question, "How many comments above did she write herself?" So we decided to do a little research.

This is just a quick search through the comments on these two posts.

First off, let's take a look at the full header on the emails from Ms. Adams' so-called "PR department".

Received: from 68.161.213.86 ([68.161.213.86]) by www.goddessy.com (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:36:24 -0400 Message-ID: <20060610093624.gopdvowbmuw0k0w0@www.goddessy.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:36:24 -0400

Now let's look at the IP's of at least four of her "supporters" one of which left three seperate comments.

JUSTICIA
JUSTICIA@SERAPHIM.COM
68.161.213.86

A REAL STEPHANIE FAN
SapphicSph@aol.com
68.161.213.86

Gabriel (3 comments)
GAB76767@aol.com
68.161.213.86

Michael
M776@aol.com
68.161.213.86

Ironically, one of the comments from "Gabriel" said, "Miss Adams does not have to respond to you because so many others speak for her." I guess all these "others" just happen to be hanging around using Stephanie Adams' IP address. Interesting. Just think about how creepy that would be if in fact it came from Stephanie herself. See if you can pick out the other comments that are all by the same person. Hint: they're the ones that make no fucking sense.

I'm sure it's completely normal to pretend to be a PR departent and a fanbase. Cuckoo!

We are NOT saying that the e-mails and comments are definitely from Stephanie herself. What is apparent however, is that whoever sent the original e-mail from her "PR Department" is the same person (or at the very least using the same IP address) as the person leaving most of the comments from her "supporters". All this happening simultaneously while Stephanie herself is posting on her MySpace site for people to come and bash us. So, again we're not saying it was Stephanie sending the e-mails and posting the comments, we're just putting up the evidence. Draw your own conclusions.

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Former Playboy Playmate Stephanie Adams vs. BlogNYC

A few days ago we commented on a story about a former Playboy Playmate, Stephanie Adams, and her lawsuit against the NYPD for excessive force. Stephanie who is a self-proclaimed seer of sorts and claims to have made the "transition from the superficial to the supernatural" has a strange way of handling her new found enlightenment. With so many books and proclamations about being a "Sorceress" and being enlightened one could hardly imagine her going apeshit on a cab driver.

Today we got an e-mail about using images that she claims she owns the copyright to, one of which was taken off of her MySpace page. We immediately took down the pictures, but here's small example of how Ms. Adams deals with her anger. All I can say is that I'm glad I wasn't her cab driver.

This is from her MySpace bulletin board:

If enough of you send comments bashing this amateur writer's article about me, maybe he will get a clue and take it down altogether:

http://blognyc.net/news/stephanie-adams/former-playboy-playmate-is-suing-the-nypd-for-use-of-excessive-force.php

Playboy has already been notified about his illegal use of the photos, clearly copyright infringement.

I'm a firm believer that good always defeats evil...so go get him!

Blessings,
~S

She immediately starts out encouraging people to come here and "bash us" and calling us "amateur", but then ends the post with "Blessings". I love how self-righteous people can justify retaliation and anger and encourage others to "bash" people and sum it all up with blessings.

There's also a nice little e-mail exchange between me, and someone who claims not to be Stephanie Adams, because Stephanie Adams personal PR people do that (on Saturdays) even though Stephanie is writing about it on her MySpace site. What is most bothersome is that if all this was strictly about the pictures I would completely understand, but it's clearly about someone who has an impossible time taking any sort of criticism about any aspect of her life, especially if it's saying her MySpace site looks like shit and is hard to read.

Check out the e-mails below.


From Stephanie Adams:
BESIDES THE FACT THAT YOUR ARTICLE IS CRASS AND IGNORANT, THE PHOTOS
YOU HAVE STOLEN AND ADDED ON YOUR WEB SITE
(http://blognyc.net/news/stephanie-adams/former-playboy-playmate-is-suing-the-nypd-for-use-of-excessive-force.php) ARE COPYRIGHT MATERIAL FROM PLAYBOY AS WELL AS GODDESSY AND MUST BE REMOVED
IMMEDIATELY.

YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO REMOVE THESE PHOTOS OR WE WILL TAKE THE
APPROPRIATE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST YOU.

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT



From BlogNYC:
Dear Public Relations person (or Stephanie if this is you...hi Stephanie!),

While we appreciate your extremely non-emotional review of our article we are unsure of exactly which photos you would like to have removed. We can of course tell that you are very serious because of the fact that you used all capital letters in your correspondence. We could definitely tell that you were talking very e-sternly.

There is however the issue of the article being a parody/commentary on a current event issue, and the one image used from your personal and public MySpace page is credited and linked.

While we are unsure of many things in this crazy, mixed up world of ours, like why some people are lactose intolerant (I mean come on, they'll never get to drink chocolate milk! Personally I'm allergic to chocolate so while I can't drink chocolate milk it's for very different reasons) we are sure of one thing and that is that Playboy can easily handle their own infringement cases.

While we appreciate the fact that you have written 16 books, some of which are 63 pages long! We also truly admire the fact that you are an outspoken advocate for the LGBT community. We have absolutely zero tolerance for bigotry and hatred, and believe that it's absurd that in 2006 in the United States an adult cannot choose who they want to marry. As with racism, ignorance and fear predicate people's opinions on the LGBT community. We're sure you're a very positive member and spokesperson for the LGBT community, and that can't be an easy thing, especially with people like Ryan Seacrest not pulling their weight at all in that area.

Sorry, we got a little sidetracked there. As for the images, could you be more specific as to which images are copyright material from Goddessy?

Sincerely,
Public Relations Guy (Just kidding it's me James!)



From Stephanie Adams:
WHILE 16 BOOKS RANGING FROM UNDER 100 PAGES (ONE BOOK) TO OVER 300
PAGES IS A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN SOME UNKNOWN WRITING ABOUT NOTEWORTHY
CELEBRITIES ON AN AMATEUR WEB SITE, THAT IS BESIDE THE CASE.

YOU DO NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHTS TO ANY OF THE PHOTOS AND THEY ALL HAVE
TO BE TAKEN DOWN.

THE PREVIOUS E-MAIL WAS COPIED TO PLAYBOY'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN
CHICAGO AND PLAYMATE PROMOTIONS IN CALIFORNIA REGARDING THE FOLLOWING:

http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_04.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_05.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_13.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_14.php

AND GODDESSY OWNS THE COPYRIGHT TO THE FOLLOWING:

http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie-handcuffs.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_08.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_11.php

IF THE PHOTOS FROM GODDESSY ARE NOT TAKEN DOWN TODAY, WE WILL BE
CONTACTING OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT TOMORROW.

IF THE PHOTOS FROM PLAYBOY ARE NOT TAKEN DOWN BY MONDAY, WE WILL SPEAK
WITH PLAYBOY'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN CHICAGO AND THEY WILL CONTACT YOU
DIRECTLY.



From BlogNYC:
Dear Stephanie,

I really thought we were making progress, but again with the all capitals. I get it, you're very e-stern about this matter and you don't like having someone say that your MySpace site is crappy looking.

I will take down the pictures at some point today when I get around to it. I have nothing to gain or lose by doing either and I'm afraid that my fragile ego cannot take any more all e-yelling. Actually, I should be more specific, I will take down the pictures you claim to have copyrighted, I think I'll wait for a note from Playboy to take down the rest.

Good luck with your "supernatural" life. Maybe that's the next step to enlightenment that I'm missing, writing in all capital letters.

Sincerely,



From Stephanie Adams:
LEGAL NOTICE:

THIS IS THE GODDESSY PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT. MISS ADAMS DOES NOT
CORRESPOND WITH PEOPLE PERSONALLY UNLESS THEY KNOW HER PERSONALLY AND
SEND E-MAIL TO HER PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS. ALL CORRESPONDENCE SENT
REGARDING STEPHANIE ADAMS IS AND WILL BE DONE SO VIA THE PUBLIC
RELATIONS DEPARTMENT FOR GODDESSY AS WELL AS THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT FOR
PLAYBOY.

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Former Playboy Playmate is Suing the NYPD for Use of Excessive Force

I guess when pretty much the only thing you're known for is taking off your clothes 14 years ago, suing anyone for $5 million is a pretty big windfall.

Stephanie Adams, Miss November 1992 and open lesbian, is suing the NYPD for "forcing her to the ground, pushing her face into the pavement and pressuring her back." Oh, and "leering at her".

The photo of Stephanie with the handcuffs is directly from her MySpace site which also, ironically enough says, "AGAIN, DO NOT ASK TO BE ADDED AS A "FRIEND" UNLESS YOU'RE A FEMALE OR YOU WORK FOR THE MILITARY OR NYPD." The entire site is covered with background of police in full riot gear not only making it one of the shittiest looking sites on MySpace but also making it one of the hardest ones to read.

Playboy Playmate Suing NYC Over Injuries Allegedly Sustained in Rough Arrest [FOX Life]