Posted on 12/02/2016 7:20:58 AM PST by raccoonradio
Art Bell and his wife sue Michael Savage and Westwood One for defamation. Bell says Westwood should’ve hit the dump button on his September 25 show, when Savage allegedly said this – “You say ‘UFOs’ [on a radio show], you wind up in the Philippines with a ten-year-old hooker and you are off the radio after a number of years...That’s an in-joke, by the way, for people who understand the business.” Former “Coast to Coast” personality Art Bell says the industry should know his story – that he married his wife Airyn Ruiz Bell in the Philippines when she was 22, not 10. The suit says she “has never been a prostitute.” And that the reason he’s “off the radio” is not “because he discussed UFOs or married Ms. Bell.”
The couple’s been married ten years and have a daughter, and their suit says they “demanded that defendants make a correction or retraction of the defamatory statement.” But neither was forthcoming. The named defendants in the suit filed in federal court are Michael Alan Weiner, known professionally as Michael Savage, syndicator Westwood One, and its parent Cumulus. The Bells are suing in the Bay Area because Savage is based there.
The Bells admit that Michael Savage didn’t mention their names. But their defamation suit says “a listener of the program would understand” that Art Bell was the subject of the gibe about marrying “a 10-year-old hooker” in the Philippines and as a result being off the air. Savage didn’t launch his September 25 routine talking about another talk-show host. He wandered there, while musing about the topics he usually eschews – “I generally avoid gun questions. I know from the first day in radio. I learned you never do certain topics where you can destroy your show. Third rail...You say ‘UFOs,’ you wind up in the Philippines” – and you know the rest. The Bell suit alleges that “Cumulus and Westwood failed to exercise due care and adhere to standard radio broadcast industry practice, by not utilizing the delay button.” The suit then covers the legal ground for defamation – “reckless disregard for the truth” and “cognition that such broadcast would defame and disparage plaintiffs.” Art was inducted into the Chicago-based National Radio Hall of Fame in 2008, after ending his 19-year stint as full-time host of “Coast to Coast AM.” He did some guest-hosting after that, then returned in Summer 2015 with his own “Midnight in the Desert.” He says he halted that show after receiving a death threat. The Bells’ lawsuit was filed by the L.A.-based Gerard Fox Law P.C.
Since his wife was not 10 then he wasn’t the one being talked about.
I wonder how adult men over the age of 35 could be attracted to a significantly younger woman (e.g., 10 years or more).”
Does this really puzzle you?
kind of clueless, ain’t he?
On the otherhand, that mistake gave him three children.
Agree as usual..... we think alike. Have always thought poorly of Savage. Don’t care for him. He doesn’t do his homework more times than not.... means well, wants accountability as do we all but seems to get his info off “Fakebook” .
My opinion....Stay Safe WD !
My wife is 8 years my junior hardly a major difference
I never said anything about her period so assign something to me I did not write
I wrote to defend folks here I know
I wrote that there are posters here married to Asian girls and most of the women are younger which is simply a fact
Estrogen promotes supposition that much I know
If you cannot fathom why so many older men desire young women?
Are you serious?
It’s the sex dear
It’s a concept as old as dirt
I’m confused, Michael said 5 things:
- you say UFO, you lose your job on the radio
- You wind up in the philipines
- You hook up with a 10-year-old
- You hook up with a hooker.
THe suit says three of those things do not apply to Bell, that he didn’t lose his job for UFO, he didn’t hook up with a hooker, or end up with a 10-year-old.
So the only thing said that would “identify” Bell with this broadcast is that Bell apparently went to the Philipines.
Of course, a lot of other people I’m sure went to the philipines.
Michael didn’t even make a direct claim that his “story” he was telling here was “true”. For all we know, he could have just been making a prediction, that if HE said “UFO” he’d lose his job and end up in the philipines with a 10-year-old hooker.
And since Bell is a public figure, he’d have to prove not only that the statement is clearly about him, but that it was done with malicious intent.
His claim against the station isn’t that the station said anything about him, just that they didn’t use a time delay — but I can’t imagine anybody would have bleeped Savage for that statement. Certainly that doesn’t prove malicious intent. (Why don’t they have a delay — probably to make sure they can’t be claimed to have implicitly approved what he says by NOT bleeping it).
Someone claims they don’t understand why old men might crave young women?
I mean come on. LoL
Why do 45 year old still active women want 25 year old guys?
That want to get railed all over the sheets.,,,I’ll just be blunt....young guys are damn jackhammers ....they can pour the coal to it...,and some girls need that much er...attention to get to the finish line
And it makes them feel young and desired especially if ex husband was a turd
For us young women are just damn hot and all the rest.. they are hard not to notice
If I were single I’d be a fool and chase em but you already knew tgat
oh get over yourself jerk.
Sept. 25th was a Sunday. There is no Savage show from that date.
22 ain’t 10.
That’s about I figured
Angry woman
That was easy
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His son was in a homosexual tryst with the teacher and another student.
According to the Sheriff he committed suicide.
The Nye County DA apparently didn’t buy the idea that what occurred was some sort of tryst. The teacher is currently serving a life sentence for assault.
I was a longtime listener of Coast 2 Coast am, the show that Art Bell founded. There was plenty of rumor and scandal flying at the time surrounding the inexplicable death of his wife, then the rapidity of AB finding a new young wife. It was worse than that of Woody Allen.
I once asked an older gentleman on his 80th birthday, “how old were you when you lost interest in women?” He laughed and said, “I’ll tell you when it happens”. Now I am just under 17 years younger than he was at that time, and I can tell you that while mature women look great to me, 18 year old women still can dominate my dreams awake or asleep. There is a beauty of youthful vigor, and that is what men are hardwired to be attracted to on an animal level.
I thought his wife had severe asthma.
Thanks, Spacebar. This could be ugly, yet Bell was never mentioned by name? (The old joke by submariners at Subic Bay base was check out your lady friend of the evening via the Crocodile Dundee method, so as to avoid surprises)
On the other hand it could have been Mike Siegel again.
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