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We posted last week regarding some apparently craziness involving Internet sideshow, J-Bolt. Turns out, someone purporting to be his agent posted at the Comicon.con boards (slightly) slagging off poor J-Bolt.
The plot thickens. A post purportedly from his (former) agent's assistant:
Good afternoon.I'm Judith Moose's assistant and she has asked me to respond to J-Bolt's post and offer an apology for the actions of one of her employees. She didn't know anything about this board until someone sent her a message this morning regarding your posts. One of our former interns had said something about seeing her name on a forum last month connected with this topic. When asked about it, Judith said that Jaki Baskow had been given a script for "Bombshell" but that Jaki wasn't currently representing him and that he hadn't been a client of hers since around 2001 and that was all. We were unaware that he had posted anything regarding this information.
Judith has asked me to let you know that she has absolutely nothing against J-Bolt and in fact, considered him a friend throughout their working relationship. She wishes him nothing but the best in all of his projects and hopes that he and his loved ones are well and happy.
To those of you on this board as well as J-Bolt himself, please accept our apologies on behalf of our intern. This and other items are serving as reminders of why this intern is no longer with us.
Best wishes,
Catherine Ingham
And supposedly an email from Ms. Moose herself:
Hello Tom,Thank you for your message. I had received one yesterday from another member of your board pointing out the same item. Up until that point, I had no idea of my supposedly posting on the forum and you may post this message as a reply if you wish. An intern that I had in my office through the end of June had mentioned something about seeing my name connected with a forum concerning J-Bolt stating that Jaki Baskow and I are involved in his projects. Not having seen the forum or any of its content, I commented to my intern that we both did work with him but that Jaki didn't currently represent him and that I hadn't worked with him since around the end of 2000 or beginning of 2001. I had no idea that he would take it upon himself to impersonate me, much less create chaos in the process. As each day passes, I'm becoming more pleased that I let him go last month as I have discovered that this is not the first item he's lent my name to.
Catherine Ingham is indeed my assistant and while that's not exactly the message I had dictated to her over the telephone yesterday, it's close enough to what I wanted to convey. I personally have no problem with J-Bolt at all. As far as I'm concerned, he's a talented artist who is simply trying to find his way in an industry that he loves. We socialized quite often throughout the time we worked together and I considered him to be a friend.
For the sake of knowledge, other than yesterday's message from Catherine, I will not be posting on the forum as my business dealings with J-Bolt were over several years ago. I wish him well with his current and future endeavors but honestly have nothing to discuss. Any type of future discussion that I would possibly have with him would be either over a telephone or face-to-face. I have two companies to run on a daily basis and taking part in a smear campaign isn't something that I would do. One of my companies is an Entertainment PR firm, at which my staff and I protect people's reputations, not try to destroy them.
Once again, thank you for your message. I appreciate you bringing this issue to my attention.
With all good wishes,
Judith A. Moose, President
JM Media Group / Signing Stars Publishing
Posted by YMB Staff at July 24, 2006 08:00 PM