https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/11/gay-talese-kevin-spacey
From the article:
“I feel so sad, and I hate that actor that ruined this guy’s career,” continued Talese, who possibly had not kept up with the growing scope of the accusations online. “So, O.K., it happened 10 years ago . . . Jesus, suck it up once in a while!”
Talese, visibly agitated, pressed on: “I would like to ask [Spacey] how it feels to lose a lifetime of success and hard work all because of 10 minutes of indiscretion 10 years or more ago.”
Gesturing to the roomful of media titans sipping champagne around him, he added, “You know something, all of us in this room at one time or another did something we’re ashamed of. The Dalai Lama has done something he’s ashamed of. The Dalai Lama should confess . . . put that in your magazine!”
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Factfinder2 ago
Talese is the guy who famously investigated and withheld from authorities what he knew about a motel owner who for years spied on his guests in their rooms from a specially constructed "viewing platform." Talese even joined the voyeur one night in watching a couple have sex through a fake ventilation vent. Also, the voyeur told Talese he'd witnessed a murder and withheld his eyewitness account from police.
Talese took heat for his part in all this after he finally wrote about it last year in a New Yorker magazine article called "The Voyeur's Motel." Here's the article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel
He's also been excoriated for his comments about female writers: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2016/04/gay_talese_s_unethical_new_yorker_article_on_gerald_foos.html
YogSoggoth ago
Reminds me of this guy. Longboat police seek tenants, possible victims in video ... Man Arrested When Voyeur Cam Found in Smoke Detector at ... That picture he put in the article? Not to many creeps outside the middle east into that I would hope.