Twitter star Yashar Ali still owes $230,000 to Getty heir. A debt collector now wants his income

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The longstanding efforts of a Getty heiress to claw back thousands of dollars she loaned to journalist and Twitter influencer Yashar Ali have intensified, with a debt collector now seeking to seize his future income and money he gets through online payment platforms like Venmo.

According to papers filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Ali owes well over $200,000 on loans made to him by Ariadne Getty, a philanthropist and granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. The online journalist’s debt has ballooned after years of nonpayment.

Getty loaned Ali about $180,000 between 2012 and 2014. Ali has not disputed that Getty loaned him the money, nor that he defaulted on the initial loan after paying only $1,000.

After years of few payments, Getty sued him in 2017 for the outstanding money plus interest. In 2019, a judgment was entered against Ali for $166,429. The sum remains “fully unpaid” and, with interest, stands at $232,769, according to a motion filed Friday.

The debt collector is asking L.A. Superior Court for the power to seize funds sent to Ali on various online platforms, including PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, GoFundMe and Square. The debt collector also wants “all rights to future payments” that Ali may get from his newsletter on Substack; income he derives from Twitter, where he has more than 700,000 followers; as well as future payments he may get from freelance journalism he publishes at Huffpost, MSNBC News or New York magazine, according to the filing.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-24/yashar-ali-owes-ariadne-getty-debt-collector-seeks-future-income

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1. Odd Story

No explanations in article. Ali admits the money is owed & just won't pay it back. Something is missing.

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2. Ariadne Getty is the last person...

one would expect to be associated with that creep.

Ariadne Getty Foundation

Getty founded the Fuserna Foundation in 2004, later changing its name to the Ariadne Getty Foundation.[12][16][17] She currently serves as its president and executive director.[1][18] The foundation was formed to revitalize existing charities and individual charitable projects that were failing in their objectives due to financial constraints and/or lack of exposure and publicity.[19]

The foundation is a major donor to the Los Angeles LGBT Center.[1] In October 2017 it held a benefit concert that raised over $100,000 to help prevent bullying of LGBTQ youth.[20] At the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos Getty announced that her foundation would be giving $15 million to GLAAD to reverse the erosion of LGBTQ acceptance[21] and help move the global LGBTQ community forward.[22][23] A survey by the Harris Poll and GLAAD reported that LGBTQ acceptance in the United States had declined for the first time since the poll was first conducted.[20][24][25] In 2018 Getty fulfilled her promise, donating $15 million for the GLAAD Media Institute, which seeks to spread LGBTQ acceptance by training journalists and people in the Hollywood film and television industries how to advocate for and tell the stories of LGBTQ people.[6][12][26] The Ariadne Getty Foundation and GLAAD partnered in hosting the panel Progress in Peril: How Business, Philanthropy and Media Can Lead to Achieving 100% Acceptance for LGBTQ People at the World Economic Forum.[23][27][28]

Additional partners of the foundation include the David Lynch Foundation, Family Equality Council, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Transgender Law Center, UNICEF Next Generation, United Nations Foundation, and the Washington Blade.[29]
Personal life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne_Getty

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3. I'm not familiar with him other than the fact that he is constantly

retweeted on Twitter. Interesting and weird.

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4. "Twitter star" - nuf ced. nt