i'm sure everybody heard about uh everyone's heard i think lorenz right and she's famous for
i guess doxing the libs of tick town libs of tiktok account on twitter and
i guess she and i don't know what motivated this but she outed this woman's we didn't
even know that she was a woman we're just like enjoying lives of tick tock
uh taylor outed i guess her name her address crazy it was so crazy i don't know i don't know if she
had to then like go into hiding she's been getting death threats like and then you also had um
kind of some defamatory stuff said about you from taylor as well and i assumed this was all before
the libya yeah stuff that's why i've uh my my i guess the second thing you could know
me as is just someone that knows a lot about taylor lorenz and her antics and
um for over i i think it's been about three years since i i started sort of dealing with with taylor
and you managed um what's her name charlie something she was like the first big tick tock
star wasn't she yeah so so i had been working with brands and people on instagram i moved to
i lived in san diego i went to san diego state dropped out started a company um then i worked
in a nightclub i was the the vip manager and so i dealt with a lot of the high net worth people
and the celebrities and whatnot and i had run into a friend who was really big in tech and he's like
why are you still down here in san diego or he's like you own influences.com he's like you need
to go to la and go up there and meet all these people so he gave me somebody's phone number
he's like call this person and then that person um dan fleischman introduced me to a bunch of people
and uh logan paul and all these people so i moved in to essentially what was the dorm of where all
these wasn't a dorm it was an apartment complex but the biggest internet stars in the world lived
there at the time which was at that time was like vine and instagram so i'm my god remember
immersed with these people where do you advertise too if you're an advertiser on tick tock right on
instagram and these people were getting i mean you know charlie emilia at the time i think she
was getting like 50 million views on a video or at least at some point she was so think about
how many people watch the super bowl 20 million maybe 30 million holy [ __ ] wow and she didn't
even have to have uh what was it called a costume malfunction a wardrobe malfunction yeah right yeah
okay so she's getting her videos are getting 50 million views did she want to and she was
so young was was like 18 or something yeah so then so this is actually winter of 2019 so i'm repping
charlie her sister dixie this kombucha girl um several members of this thing called the hype
house where basically one of the one of the uh and i call them kids but i really need to stop
yeah bad habit but probably was a kid she was 16 but almost everybody else was over 18. like i
think she was the only one that wasn't her and her sister i think christopher was like 17 but anyway
and then this girl addison ray who addison now hangs out with the kardashians she has a movie on
netflix she has a furniture deal so at this point when when charlie's hot and everything's happening
um taylor lorenz uh reaches out which was really weird because i knew taylor from when she worked
at the atlantic and she reached out to uh she actually didn't reach out to me she reached out to
charlie's mom on a dm which was odd because she had my email she had my
contact information and all the influencers had like charlie at influences.com on their
on all their social so everybody knew that if you emailed them probably i was gonna get the email
right cause it said my domain influences.com so she kind of in my opinion sneakily went around me
dm's the mom she they're from uh connecticut as well so and taylor's from greenwich connecticut
allegedly um and so uh which is apparently a very rich town yeah and she decides that she wants to
do an article about these tick tock influencers that have been sort of collaborating together in
this house called that they sort of named the hype house and the interesting thing was that
i represented four or five of the influencers that were there and when she came out to la the
one kid that was in charge that i didn't manage essentially told my clients from what i understand
don't tell ari that we're doing this photo shoot with the new york times we don't are here and then
it was really odd but nobody nobody like it seemed like everybody went ghosted me for a week when
that was going down all my clients that i was doing deals for working with brands and so they
do this new york times article and uh no mention of me that i manage them but mention of this other
kid that he kind of plays it off like he's their manager but he's not right i have i'm doing the
actual deals with them and everything there's there's things in writing that would show that
so the article comes out and then we're flooded for about a week we're flooded with emails from
you know but murray that produces you know mtv stuff uh the real world where hbo max uh
dunkin donuts l'oreal maybelline all these brands it was like the world woke up to tick tock into
these new faces and so and that was when i went in and met with universal and all this stuff so
it was probably one of the most exciting times of my life at the same time i was about to go broke
at that point because i had invested so much in the company and these deals that you do with the
influencers it's like you get paid on a net 30 net 16 at 90. so you do the deal and you don't
get paid for 60 to 90 days so it wasn't that i wasn't doing you know all the right things but
when you're bootstrapped that's just how it is so i was just working right but i'm like we're
right there i mean we did it you know and and everybody was at a point to to grow and succeed
and it was to me a really happy time as soon as taylor gets involved writes that article um
i just felt like something was off and i had a publicist even tell me hey be careful of
taylor like she's not your friend about a week or two after the new york times article comes out
something is starting to feel weird and i get an email from most of my clients
at that time saying they uh want to leave and they're going to go and then then they said
that they are leaving and then two days later there's a press release they're signed to utah
damn it so this is just round one but listen i'm sitting there like hey i still manage charlie
demilio and there's a lot of you or tick tockers they're like we don't care we want to go with you
so i sort of pick myself up and i go to uh this conference in florida i think it's called playlist
live and i have i i bring people that i wanted to sign or that were signed to me and we had an
amazing time i ran into taylor lorenz there which was weird because she was so sketchy
wow it felt to me and obviously like you can't you know have video whatever but what i i'm
a very sort of like empathetic person and what it felt to me was like she didn't want
she was being so fake and she wanted to meet my clients because i was there with some really big
content creators and at one point i remember taking a photo of all of them and like being like
almost going to ask somebody else to take a picture to add to put me in it with all
of them and she's like oh i got to go like she did not want to be in a photo with me how really
and like somebody doesn't act that way if they don't feel like they've done something wrong
well i think she knew she was about to do something to me and i didn't know it
you know at this point uh taylor does this you know somewhat positive article about everybody in
the industry anybody that had a house anybody it's a pretty positive article and she sort of you know
sprinkles all the top influencers all top houses but as she's doing this
she's also getting all of these people's contact information and their addresses
so she does this article and she puts a little quote in there where i said something about
marketing or whatnot about the house but i wasn't a public figure i was just trying to talk about
the projects that i was working on not as me as talent at all uh so she gets all of these
people's contact info and that was amazed so in june and july i think is when she started sort of
snooping into my life and i had heard people saying hey i got a call from taylor it didn't
sound like she was doing a positive article about you so then uh august comes around and taylor hits
me up and she's like hey i want to do uh can we chat and at the time my friend matt uh who's just
like a family friend and uh he he had reached out because he's like hey do you want to go on on fox
business he's like trump's trying to shut down tick-tock and they want to talk to a tick-tock
expert you know he's like it'd be kind of fun he's like i i mostly focus on politicians and
you know a lot of smear stuff and it's all of it is pretty stressful so i thought it would be
fun to do this tick-tock story with you and i said sure i'll i'll go on stuart varney in the morning
this sounds kind of fun so he sets me up and i'm like doing that and then right around that time
taylor's reaching out and i hit up matt and i'm like hey does this seem normal to you and he's
like my spidey senses are going off that something is very odd because he asked me to ask her what um
ask her what uh like what's the story about and she wouldn't tell me and he's like well
that's weird you know so he said so finally i um well i got a call from this talent agency
uh one of the agents there that was purporting to be my friend and he calls me and he goes you
should really talk to taylor uh you know and he's trying to tell me she's not going to say anything
bad about you she likes you she just wants to hear your side of the story so long story short
she writes a damning article about me a lengthy like if you print it out i think it's four pages
in the new york times paper of record about a subject that nobody knows anything about so most
of the time you're just going to take in what you read about something that you don't know uh
and what year was this did this come out august 2020 okay wow so she claims in the article and
by the way before she publishes she said she sends us 50 questions like back and forth
she's not getting what she wants and my attorney says hey um so i don't talk to her but my attorney
my friend was like when he let the attorney talk to her and
uh most people would just say no comment but i was very i had conviction that i didn't have anything
to hide and that i wasn't guilty of anything uh and so we offered her but she wouldn't take the
evidence unless she could print it and so i didn't want her to print my intellectual property like
publicly because then i would have no leverage against my competitors and i was in ndas with
huge brands so if she's asking me did you pay these people on time and xyz brand didn't pay
on time but i paid as soon as they paid i can't show that i can't show the receipts
without myself then being in a lawsuit with a huge huge company you get what i mean
she backed me against a wall and so the article said among many things that were incorrect and
completely false that i leaked nude images of a client for revenge i was filming the influencers
without permission uh that i raised their rent uh that i hiked up their rent that i didn't pay them
um that i was withholding money uh that i was claiming to manage them when i didn't manage them
and the worst thing that really pissed me off the most was that she made it seem like i didn't know
garyvee she's like this person says that uh ari was you know ari claims that that garyvee mentored
her and the very next sentence we called garyvee and he said he has no affiliation with influences
which i guess technically is true but and they never asked us company that like yeah that's the
the company is different than you as a person yeah so then it was it was pretty devastating
um my advisor the one i told you the the um the executive who's his big time in hollywood
he calls me the day the article drops and he's like welcome to the [ __ ] big leagues ari oh
no what are you talking about did you frame it and put it in the back did you read it oh i was
i was a mess at that time but he just you know he told me nobody writes in our a four-page article
about someone like you in the new york times unless you really mess with their pocketbooks
and he goes i know you i know you didn't do any of this stuff so you have to you got to fight back if
you if you got if you if you got it in you to do it so i spent what was the worst thing she said
of all the things in the art i think i think the fact that uh well just the the the gist of it was
that i was taking advantage of of kids now one of the brands of the houses was called the kids next
door but most of those people i think only one was 17 and a half everybody else was 18 to 23.
so it made it seem like i was really like manipulated young like teenagers and that i leaked
their nude photos for revenge i think that might i think that might have been the most sort of
the other thing too was that um they said that i i call or they said i was i got an argument with the
with them and that they called the and that the cops were called to the house twice
but we told taylor i called the cops to the house twice because the influencers were
uh they spray-painted [ __ ] ari are he's a [ __ ] all over the walls oh my god wow
so you're like you probably had like a deposit down or something right it's like yeah you have to
pay for to have that fixed man that's horrible yeah i was just trying to keep the
uh i was trying to keep the house brand together even though there were some outliers that were
troublemakers but i think maybe what happened is once taylor think about it you're 18 19 years old
a new york times reporter calls you and goes do you know about the allegations about ari and like
all these things she's doing and bubbles believe them yeah you're just like oh you're a third kid
yeah one kid who was 16 he said that she was doing the same thing to him and when he said
that he didn't want to give her any information he goes i like arya she's my manager the next day he
she texted him she was really disappointed in him a 16 year old that's manipulative wow
don't take that tone with me why so so somebody just took a nude photo at the house because
right they're like 17 18 19 20 years old yeah no that's not what happens so another manager
reached out to me and said hey ari your brand your influences.com is being posted in a
a telegram forum with like you know i don't know how many thousands of people in it um and it's
showing like a screen you know when you look at your phone and you look at the photos it's
just little squares the little thumbnails yeah the grids yeah so there's a thumbnails of sort of what
looks like some nude photos of this guy devion who was the head of one of the houses it was all boys
it was called the drip crib and the drip crib was collaborating with the girls in the valley
these are two houses that i manage and in the girls in the valley there was a 17 year old so
i was sort of alarmed and i'm like well is you know are you sure that this is debbie on send me
whatever it is because i'm not sure you're talking about so he the manager sends me what according
to him is already leaked all over telegram and all over the internet so i reached out to devyon
on text and i said hey wire newser essentially why are your nudes all over the internet
and i send him exactly the screenshots that the manager sent me and he goes into this long
story about how his uh somebody leaked into his icloud this is months before this is like in may
so before the article is written so then how is she going to write in the article that i and by
the way i didn't leak nude instruments i have i had contracts ndas with people who worked for me
like think about it as like a company and the hr yeah and i sent i said what do we do about this
because we have we're gonna be held liable what if he did something to one of the girls god forbid
and then who are they gonna who are they gonna blame you guys yeah for not for not investigating
it right so i wasn't doing anything nefarious and the way she wrote it she's like she leaked images
of it's just that word i think just the word leaked what does it imply
like you're just sending it to someone random or you're posting it online or something yeah and i
think just by nature if if the nudes were already leaked all over the internet how could i leak them
you can't re-leak yeah yeah so uh sounds like she [ __ ] sucks yeah and and honestly after that um
somebody pretty prominent in in uh well a big time executive got in touch with me and he goes listen
what happened to you sucks but this taylor has a lot of enemies out there and he goes you might not
like them you might read about them and think that they're scummy but they might read about you and
think you're scummy and you're not scummy right so i said okay he goes why don't you just make a
little excel sheet and put together people that have had issues with her would you go research
so i did i started researching and i had nothing else to do i had no job no company
all my clients left the brands were like we love you ari but like we can't be associated
uh you know a a six-figure deal on donkey sign just cancel they
canceled the docusign that day like the day the article came out