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MEDIA MATTERS BOSS PAID $850,000 IN “BLACKMAIL” PAYOUT
Says new report
February 28, 2012
 David Brock of Media Matters: complained to police of being blackmailed.
Brock, 49, is chief of the non-profit Media Matters for America, which portends to be a watchdog of the conservative media.
Media Matters was also the subject of a recent dailycaller.com series.
A police report obtained by Fox News shows that Brock contacted the Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department in September 2010 after his longtime domestic partner William Grey allegedly threatened to release “derogatory information about him and his organization to the press and donors that would be embarrassing to him and cause harm to the organization if he did not comply (with Grey's demands).”
Brock told police Grey was demanding, “17 pieces of property he felt belonged to him.” Among the items: a 10,200 in Louis Vuitton bags, $5,000 in “exotic decorative antelope horn bar accessories,” and a $5,000 “antique painted bust of [a] Roman soldier.”
Grey reportedly warned Brock to comply with his demands in a 2008 email. “Please finish this today so I don’t have to waste my time emailing anyone — Biden, Coulter, Carlson, Huffington, Drudge, Ingraham,” Grey wrote.
In a 2010 email, Grey threatened release information he seemed to view as financial issues at Media Matters that would raise the eyebrows of Brock’s donors and the IRS.
“This is going to stink for you if you do not resolve this now,” wrote Grey.
Brock claimed in court documents he paid Grey the $850,000 under duress,” and that he had to sell a Rehoboth Beach, Del. home worth $1,587,500 to meet Grey’s demands.
The fight reportedly began after Brock ended his relationship with Grey and began dating James Alefantis, a Washington-area restaurateur.
The bad blood between Brock and Grey went on for years with a settlement finally reached in late 2011.
In March of last year Brock filed a lawsuit against Grey for more than $4 million, demanding Grey return the $850,000, plus pay millions more in punitive damages. The two settled two months ago under terms that remain confidential.
Fox News said that Grey, who relocated to Massachusetts, declined to comment when contacted by the network.
Brock meantime has released a new book “attacking Fox News,” as FoxNews.com put it.
Brock, promoting his book “The Fox Effect,” has questioned the timing of the dailycaller.com series and accused the Daily Caller’s editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson and others there with collaborating with Fox News to damage the debut of is book.
Brock has not publicly disputed or challenged the material presented as factual in either the Fox News report or the dailycaller.com reporting.
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