Posts Tagged ‘co-worker’
August 10th, 2009
Original Article from The Hollywood Gossip
Andrea McNulty, the Nevada woman who accused Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault, boasted to a co-worker of having consensual sex with the NFL star and said she hoped he impregnated her, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Shortly after telling former Angela Antonetti about the tryst at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, where both worked as casino hosts, McNulty “expressed to me she was hoping for a ‘little Roethlisberger,’” Antonetti said in a sworn affidavit.
Moreover, Antonetti said, Andrea McNulty asked her to travel to Pittsburgh in August 2008 (a month after the encounter) for a Steelers game and to try to “run into” Ben Roethlisberger. “I told her that she shouldn’t try to chase Mr. Roethlisberger.”
Around the same time, Antonetti said, McNulty asked her to obtain Ben’s cell phone number from a Harrah’s executive. She said she told McNulty it was inappropriate to attempt to contact the Pittsburgh Steelers star in any fashion.
Antonetti said Andrea McNulty was upset about a married man ending a relationship with her in mid-2007. Shortly after that breakup, she told Antonetti she’d started an online romance with “Ben,” a U.S. soldier serving in Iraq.
Later, in late 2007, she said she had fallen in love with him and they had become engaged. After the 2008 golf tournament, however, the woman confided to Ms. Antonetti that the online romance was a hoax someone perpetrated on her.
She became “very emotionally distraught” and took a leave of absence from work from September until around Thanksgiving. In March 2009, McNulty told Antonetti she was going to sue Harrah’s, and “the lawsuit would be big news.”
Andrea McNulty’s lawsuit against Ben Roethlisberger also includes a number of employees at Harrah’s whom she claims tried to cover up the alleged assault.
Antonetti said she was “absolutely shocked” when she heard that McNulty claimed Roethlisberger assaulted her “because I knew [her] allegation was false.”
“Because I knew that [her] lawsuit and false allegations would unfairly and unjustly hurt Mr. Roethlisberger, I wanted to set the story straight,” she said.
In an e-mail response, Roethlisberger’s lawyer, William David Cornwall, said: “We will let our filing speak for itself. Unfortunately, as all of our communications with Ben are confidential, it is not appropriate discuss them in any manner.”
Ben has denied all allegations, calling them “outrageous.”
Do you believe Andrea McNulty?
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April 11th, 2009
Photo: Caballero/WireImage
a-ha, “Take on Me” [The Twelves Remix]
Shouldn’t there be a million and a half remixes of this song? Wasn’t everyone born after 1986 played this in the womb? We’re fairly sure this is now Rhode Island’s state song. What gives, Internet? All we’ve been able to find is this revved up Twelves remix and >this endlessly watchable video.
Keri Hilson, “Since U Been Gone” [Kelly Clarkson Cover]
We’re tiptoeing slowly back toward being OK with “Gone” covers. For a while there, every new version of this song seemed about as witty and original as your co-worker who’s still showing off his Borat impression. If you’re
an indie rock band, you should not ever cover this song. If you’re Keri Hilson, and you’re going for a slipper R&B version, we’ll let it slide.
Bjrk, “Nattura” [Switch Remix]
Superproducer Switch has accomplished the impossible: he’s managed to make Björk even weirder. This song sounds like it’s set in some Pixar version of Jamaica, and Bjork is reduced to a jabbering phantom who shows up for a few minutes to speak her mind before vanishing into the local greenery. In other words, this remix is a mind-blower.
Easy Star All Stars ft. Frankie Paul, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” [Beatles Cover]
The Easy Star All-Stars song-by-song reggae cover of Sgt. Pepper finds the Fab Four’s weird rasta center, and recontextualizes every song in such a way that there can finally no be debate — this time, every song is indeed about drugs.
We Are the World, “Why Can’t I Be You?” [Cure Cover]
We wish this cover was by the group of musicians who recorded the original “We Are the World,” because we’d really love to hear Dan Aykroyd get his pipes around this one.
April 10th, 2009
Photo: Caballero/WireImage
a-ha, “Take on Me” [The Twelves Remix]
Shouldn’t there be a million and a half remixes of this song? Wasn’t everyone born after 1986 played this in the womb? We’re fairly sure this is now Rhode Island’s state song. What gives, Internet? All we’ve been able to find is this revved up Twelves remix and >this endlessly watchable video.
Keri Hilson, “Since U Been Gone” [Kelly Clarkson Cover]
We’re tiptoeing slowly back toward being OK with “Gone” covers. For a while there, every new version of this song seemed about as witty and original as your co-worker who’s still showing off his Borat impression. If you’re
an indie rock band, you should not ever cover this song. If you’re Keri Hilson, and you’re going for a slipper R&B version, we’ll let it slide.
Bjrk, “Nattura” [Switch Remix]
Superproducer Switch has accomplished the impossible: he’s managed to make Björk even weirder. This song sounds like it’s set in some Pixar version of Jamaica, and Bjork is reduced to a jabbering phantom who shows up for a few minutes to speak her mind before vanishing into the local greenery. In other words, this remix is a mind-blower.
Easy Star All Stars ft. Frankie Paul, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” [Beatles Cover]
The Easy Star All-Stars song-by-song reggae cover of Sgt. Pepper finds the Fab Four’s weird rasta center, and recontextualizes every song in such a way that there can finally no be debate — this time, every song is indeed about drugs.
We Are the World, “Why Can’t I Be You?” [Cure Cover]
We wish this cover was by the group of musicians who recorded the original “We Are the World,” because we’d really love to hear Dan Aykroyd get his pipes around this one.