Taylor Swiftis facing criticism for sending a thank-you letter toDave Portnoy, despite the allegations of violent sexual misconduct against the media mogul.
Dave, who owns the sports and pop culture company Barstool Sports, attended the singer’s Eras Tour show in Miami, Florida, on Sunday (October 20).
HighlightsTaylor Swift is being criticized for thanking Dave Portnoy after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct.The singer sent a letter to the controversial media mogul during one of her Eras Tour concerts in Miami.Six women have accused Dave of violent behavior during sexual encounters, including choking them and filming them without their consent.
“Dave, I’m so happy to have you at the show tonight! I wanted to say thank you for always being so supportive, so loyal, and for having my back when a lot of people didn’t. I hope you have a blast tonight!!” wroteTaylor, whose stationery is signed: “songwriter/feline enthusiast.”
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Taylor Swift is facing backlash for sending a thank-you letter to Dave Portnoy after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct
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Dave, an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, defended Taylor when theGrammy winnerendorsed Kamala Harris in September.
“As the king of the Swifties people are asking me what I think of her Kamala endorsement. I don’t care at all,” Dave wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) at the time.
“People can vote for whoever they want in this country. How somebody votes will never change my opinion of a person. I’m voting the other way but to each their own.”
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“I think of all the people who weren’t believed or were afraid to speak up because they think they won’t be believed. I’m sorry to anyone who wasn’t believed ‘cause I don’t know what turn my life would have taken if people didn’t believe me when I said that something had happened to me.”
The singer allegedly sent a letter to the media mogul thanking him for being “so supportive, so loyal, and for having my back when a lot of people didn’t”
The fanwrote, “I can’t understand that the woman who made THAT speech in the reputation era is now writing a handwritten letter to thank an abuser for all his ‘support’… it’s surreal and disappointing.”
“It was so rough I felt like I was being raped. He video taped me and spit in my mouth and choked me so hard I couldn’t breathe,” described one of the women, who used the pseudonym Madison.After Madison sent a private message to Dave via Instagram, he invited her to his Nantucket home. Madison described the experience as “traumatic.”
Dave read the letter aloud during an Instagram video and shared it on his BFFs podcast account
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“It was so painful. I kept trying to get away and he was like, ‘Stop running away from me. Stop running away from me,’” Madison added.
She told him it was “too much” and it hurt, but Dave “just went harder.”
When he started to record her during the private act, Madison feared that Dave would become more aggressive if she confronted him. “I never said anything. I was scared. He was just so mean.”
Nantucket Police spokesman Lt. Angus MacVicarstated at the timethatthe department was not investigating Dave.
In 2010, Dave faced backlash after writing in a blog post, “[E]ven though I never condone rape if you’re a size 6 and you’re wearing skinny jeans you kind of deserve to be raped right?”
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The accusations didn’t stop there. A year after the initialBusiness Insiderexposé, the outlet publishedanother articlewith allegations from three more women, aged 18 to 25, who accused the 47-year-old of filming them during sex without their permission.
One of them, using the pseudonym Kayla, said that the media mogul broke one of her ribs during a violent sexual encounter in his New York apartment.
Kayla said Dave slapped her across the face with “full force” and choked her.
The women were too scared to ask him to stop recording for fear he would hurt them because of hisviolent behavior. Moreover, they didn’t want him to share the private videos as an act of revenge.
In response to the accusations, Daveposted a letterfrom his attorney, Andrew Bettler, admitting that the sexual encounters took place but claiming they had been “entirely consensual.”
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“Maybe Taylor and I share a bond because we have both been outwardly lied about in the media. The people who wrote thatBIarticle about me should in jail.BIand then theNY Timesspent years investigating every ounce of my life trying to destroy me. There is a reason I’m still here. I tell the truth,” the media mogul said.
“I’m sorry to anyone who wasn’t believed ‘cause I don’t know what turn my life would have taken if people didn’t believe me,” Taylor said in 2018
“One of the main themes in theBusiness Insiderarticle is that I video girls without their consent. This is absolutely not true. I have never done that once in my life and I never will. I’m so scarred I’ll probably never video again anyway,” the 47-year-old wrote.
Dave claimed the women “say I video them without consent and I’m too rough for them and then they come back over a week later and we have sex again.(…) All the while we are actively texting and dm’ing each other without them saying a word to me that they are upset.”
He said Madison had a private Instagram account where she shared photos of them in Nantucket, and there was “no mention of any distress or unusual activities” from her.
Dave shared a message the woman allegedly posted, which reads, “Portnoy was a dick and lame and grumpy. He gets a 2/10 from me. If he ever pisses me off I have lots of content to expose him with. I am going to stick to the athletes.”
Meanwhile, he claimed that Kayla “liked rough sex as much as I did,” that at no point did she ask him “to stop or act frightened or in distress,” and that she was aware he was videotaping their sexual encounter. He also said she stayed at his apartment to have sex after the rib injury.
Additionally, he alleged that she later joked about her rib injury and sent him “unsolicited sexual messages” three years after their last encounter.
Bored Pandahas contacted Taylor Swift’s representatives for comment.
“As a Swiftie, I’m so disgusted,” one of Taylor’s fans wrote
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