Possibly the least surprising “this guy is a scumbag” story ever.
There are so many super gross social dynamics that need to go away. Like, just ban fraternities, they are so awful. Barstool is just a fraternity without college, disgusting.
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Non paywalled version.
Last July, a young woman, Allison, was at her family’s home on Nantucket. She had just graduated from high school. According to several people on the island, Portnoy was a celebrity on Nantucket. Recent high-school graduates from wealthy New England towns would try to land an invitation to Portnoy’s house while summering on the island.
“The reputation on the island is that he is a God and a king and kind of untouchable,” Allison said. “And everyone wants to get into his house for parties.”
Allison’s sister, Olivia, who had recently graduated from college, told Insider that some of her friends were sending Portnoy direct messages attempting to get the mogul’s attention but he “wasn’t giving them the time of day.” Then they realized that her 19-year-old sister, Allison, might be more his type.
“They said: ‘You should reach out to him, he likes younger girls.’ And he completely took the bait,” Olivia said. “He was much more interested in her than any of my 22-year-old friends.”
Allison sent Portnoy a message telling him she was on the island and would love to see him. He invited her over to his house, and she asked him whether she could come by with a couple of friends.
“While we fuck? Seems weird,” Portnoy wrote in a message viewed by Insider. Allison responded, “Nah they don’t mind.”
On the island of Nantucket, where Portnoy owns a $2 million home, “he is a God and a king and kind of untouchable,” Allison said. “And everyone wants to get into his house for parties.”
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Portnoy told Allison he didn’t like her friends messaging him, then wrote: “I’m not cool with your friends coming. Sorry.” Allison called off the meetup, unwilling to go alone.
About a week later, though, she messaged him again. This time, the two agreed to meet up in the afternoon. “I was definitely pushed by my friends,” Allison said.
Allison recalled sitting by the pool. Portnoy offered her watermelon and water. He asked her which school she went to and which grade she was in, Allison recalled. Then, she said: “He got up to go inside and I was like, ‘OK, I’ll go in with you.’ And he was like, ‘I didn’t know it would be that easy.’”
“He leaned in and started kissing me and I didn’t know what to do at that point,” she added. “And we went upstairs and he was really aggressive and I didn’t know what to do and we had sex and that was it and he kicked me out.”
Allison said her memories were fuzzy because of her emotional distress surrounding the event, but, like Madison, she said Portnoy choked her.
“He kept spitting in my mouth, which was really gross,” Allison said. “I was kind of scared. I didn’t want to disappoint him.”
A little over an hour later, Allison’s friends picked her up. One of the young women who was in the car told Insider that Allison was uncharacteristically quiet. “She was clearly almost in shock,” she said.
“She basically couldn’t talk the next day,” Allison’s mother told Insider.
Allison does not describe what happened to her as sexual assault but said she was still deeply disturbed by the experience. “I just felt very preyed on,” she said.
Soon after Allison’s encounter with Portnoy, two photos — a selfie Allison had taken with Portnoy and a photo her friend took of her leaving his house — began to circulate the island. Both were posted on private Snapchats by Allison’s friends but were then screenshotted and shared widely. Before long, it felt as though the entire island knew what had transpired between Allison and Portnoy, Olivia said.
Allison, who has had depression, said she felt stressed and overwhelmed following her sexual encounter with Portnoy and the subsequent attention it got. “I guess it was kind of my breaking point,” Allison said.
Three nights after having sex with Portnoy, Allison was suicidal and was hospitalized.
While she was in the hospital, her mother began going through her phone trying to understand what had happened. After finding Portnoy’s messages, Allison’s mother called the Nantucket Police Department.
She told the police, “Go put somebody outside his door because you’re going to see every day there’s some young girl being dropped off.” Insider viewed police documents confirming this call.
Her mother wanted to pursue some sort of legal action against Portnoy, but Allison refused.
“I knew he would drag me through the mud,” Allison said.
Awful
Yeah, I’m not sure there’s a more toxic dynamic on college campuses than frats being the gatekeepers for parties with alcohol.
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he is a God and a king and kind of untouchable
WTF How do people think this? He seems like the biggest douchiest douchebag ever and that’s just my impression from watching some pizza reviews back in the day.
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But he throws the hottest parties on Nantucket Island.
Seemed slightly douchier than Dan Bilzerian, but only because he has more money.
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Is there a criminal complaint against this guy yet?
I was really hoping to see a reference to “Portnoy’s Complaint” in the story.
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As far as we know only one high school girl (and I guess her older sister that wants to party) thinks this.
This is kind of a problem, right? Girl just out of high school felt totally overwhelmed, intimidated, and uncomfortable during the act of sex but doesnt consider it assault?
I highly doubt Portnoy was practicing any type of active consent seeking. Seems pretty assaulty to me.
Also, PTSD, suicidality, and refusal to press charges due to intimidation. Pretty clear case of sexual assault. He used sex in a manner to brutalize this girl.
Fuck, men are the absolute fucking worst.
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I’m not sure there’s a Shocked Pikachu jpeg big enough for the headline “Dave Portnoy is a sexual predator”
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This. Portnoy is straight up evil.
Allison’s friends come off pretty shitty as well. He let’s use the naive 19-year-old as bait to get into some parties.
A 44 year old wanting to sexually humiliate a 19 year old because 22 year olds are too old. Jesus Christ.
Unsurprisingly Matt Walsh has an awful take.
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1456319588627623942
She did say she was down to have sex and was into rape fantasies but added “But I will say, in order to do that one I have to be pretty comfortable with you.”
Then she gets there and he is immediately creepy and aggressive, starts filming without consent and doesn’t stop when she gives clear signals of withdrawing consent.
No she said she had a rape fantasy and wanted to be out of control of the situation, to which he replied “We’re going to get along great”. Then she flew across the country to meet him. He also sent her explicit pics of him having sex with other women. He still assaulted her once she got there and is evil, but the first girl certainly ignored a bunch of red flags.
He’s preying on young women who are drawn to his fame and money. I’m sure he justifies it by saying that they’re all just golddiggers who get what’s coming to them.
My ex had rape fantasies (and every other kind of fantasy). I tried but I couldn’t do it. I honestly don’t get how someone gets turned on by treating someone else like a piece of trash, or being treated like a piece of trash. But I don’t get a lot of things.
His MO seems to be getting consent over DMs then feeling entitled to do whatever the fuck he wants when they get there, w/ the implicit threat of calling them a lying attention seeking whore if they resist him in anyway.
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But what was she wearing?
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I don’t find it very hard to understand. Some people enjoy either being in control or not being in control. If people can be turned on by BDSM, they can be turned on by rape fantasies. Other people just get off on whatever is taboo and gravitate towards more extreme stuff as we expand what we consider acceptable. People are turning to rape and incest porn as everything else becomes unacceptable. The focus on sexual harassment probably makes rape and coercive sex more intriguing to people these days. People are probably increasingly interested in age play and race play for similar reasons.