Nik should be up to a lot in A brief look at the figures for TheDirty. The rebrand last year, and a major overhaul of the site did see numbers spike, but it was brief. So far as I can tell the content right now eschews gossip about regular everyday people, focusing more on folk who are already in the limelight, those who already use the media to promote their lives. In the middle of last year, it was announced that a scripted show based on his life was in the works.
Nik was diagnosed with MS recently, and he is also looking to sell TheDirty. He has two children with his wife Shayne Lamas, daughter of actor Lorenzo Lamas.
Nik Richie was born on February 12, , under the name Hooman Karamian. His original online handle was Corbin Grimes, and was anonymous for much of his early career, only announcing his identity after a DUI outed him. He changed his name to Nik Richie not long after, but never tried to go back into anonymity. In he was working as a credit card processor in Scottsdale Arizona and was bored with the work. He would see folk going out and getting into trouble on a daily basis, and inspired by celebrity gossip columns and reality TV he started DirtyScottsdale.
The site grew very quickly and soon branched out into other areas, eventually becoming TheDirty. Richie is widely famed as the initiator of the controversial gossip website, TheDirty. Nik Richie was born on 12 February At present, his age is 42 years old. Talking about his nationality, Richie holds an American identity whereas his ethnicity is Caucasian. Regarding education, the writer completed his early education at Mission Viejo High School. Likewise, he also transferred and studied at Saddleback College to complete his higher studies.
Well, Nik is the creator of the gossip website, TheDirty. He founded it in March as DirtyScottsdale. He widely updated the better version and named as TheDirty. He worked on the gossip site until 4 September Later, he was arrested for DUI and reckless driving in Scottsdale. In the year , Nik however changed the format of TheDirty. Sadly, he withdrew from the site in April Additionally, Nik also gave an interview on an episode of Dr. Phil in which he was interviewed by Phil McGraw.
He was questioned about the subject of online bullying and gossip titled, Dirt, Lies, and the Internet. Further, the author was also interviewed by a talk show host, Anderson Cooper in an episode. There, he confronted Sarah Jones and she has highly sued Richie for defamation. The program was about his legal battle with Sarah Jones. Going on, Nik and his ex-wife, Lamas also featured on the second season of the VH1 reality show, Couples Therapy in late alongside many other couples.
Famous personality, Richie has earned a massive amount of money from his profession working as a blogger and a writer. After his identity was released, Richie made a healthy sideline doing club appearances, essentially going on tour as a media bad boy.
He was, by his own account, even more poorly behaved than many of the people whose foibles he broadcast. It was a wickedly entertaining and completely unverifiable story, the type Richie excels at telling. In , Richie posted a rumor from a reader that former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader and high school teacher Sarah Jones had had sex with several Bengals players; the post also implied that she had spread sexually transmitted diseases in her pursuits.
Richie was heartened by the support he received from major tech companies in his appeal. Richie was a frequent target of defamation lawsuits, and as a website operator, he had already argued in previous cases that he was legally shielded by Section of the Communications Decency Act. This is the same statute that has protected a variety of different internet entities, from Twitter to Facebook to Backpage.
The statute gives online publishers immunity from liability for content posted by third parties. Without the statute, many of these entities would be unable to survive the opening of the legal floodgates, which is why it is seen as integral to protecting speech online.
The decision for Sarah Jones was overturned on appeal the next year. A three-judge bench ruled that Richie and The Dirty are protected under the Communications Decency Act and are not liable for the comments written by third parties, citing Section as the reason.
In the middle of the case, Jones pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual misconduct for having sex with her thenyear-old student in She was not required to register as a sex offender, but she was banned from teaching. Jones and the student eventually married in Her scandal had no impact on her lawsuit against Richie. What got the case overturned was the basic idea that because Richie did not write the words, The Dirty was not liable for them.
This was not the first time a website of a high-profile gossip columnist had been found not liable in a case like this. In , AOL was found immune regarding the postings of its gossip columnist, Matt Drudge, after political operative Sidney Blumenthal and his wife attempted to sue for defamation. His case is a strong precedent for an incredibly broad interpretation of Section immunity.
Randazza compared Richie favorably to Google executives, in particular, whom he believes to be craven. I had not mentioned Google. She said that Section needs to be altered to discourage site operators from primarily hosting defamatory material or content that invades privacy.
And so he worked it for years. The whole business model is despicable. Law professor and digital free-speech advocate Eric Goldman warned against looking for ways to weaken Section In an attempt to verify the goods, Richie compared the feet in the dick pics he was sent to the feet in previously published photos of Weiner. They matched. He took a gamble and wrote the story. It went viral. And he had to admit the truth. They mostly come up with small items about reality stars, as well as some celebrity sound bites and random hard-news scooplets, like the emergency message that parents received in a recent school shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Richie posted images from the tape along with his own commentary. The tape is indelibly linked to another media organization, however. The Dirty posted images of the Hogan sex tape in April , six months before Gawker posted a short video clip.
Hogan did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Richie told me that he was aware of a conspiracy against Gawker Media, and he gave it his blessing. And I can say I had a part in that, and that makes me proud. I asked A. The Dirty often trafficked in sex scandals about athletes, which meant that its content often overlapped with Deadspin.
Richie said he was not happy about the way Gawker Media treated him. While Richie is still happy to pontificate about the scandals of New York media, he is less inclined to break news about other circles. Richie is a Republican, and The Dirty has started dipping into political coverage, most of it pro—Donald Trump.
In a poetic twist, Lamas is exactly the type of sort-of-famous socialite Richie began The Dirty to mock. Drew knockoff for Z-listers in relationships. Lamas became pregnant with their second child in , but she suffered from a rare condition in which the fetus grew outside of her uterus. She required emergency surgery; she lived, but required a hysterectomy, and the baby did not survive.
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