Friday, June 01, 2007

Remember Jessica Cutler

The racy former Senate staffer who detailed her sex life in the blog Washingtonienne?

Well she has filed for bankruptcy. Via Breitbart:
Cutler has spent much of her time fending off a lawsuit by ex- boyfriend and fellow DeWine staffer Robert Steinbuch, who claims Cutler's blog publicly humiliated him. He is seeking more than $20 million in damages.

In court documents filed in the case Thursday, however, Cutler says she can't even pay her American Express bill, legal fees and student loans. She submitted to the judge a copy of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition filed in New York dated Wednesday.

The lawsuit is being closely watched by online privacy groups and bloggers because the case could help establish whether people who keep online diaries are obligated to protect the privacy of the people they interact with offline.

Cutler's bankruptcy filing further clouds the fate of a lawsuit already mired in contentious pretrial arguments. A federal judge has encouraged both sides to cooperate and perhaps even settle the case, but both sides are demanding personal information from the other and Steinbuch says he doesn't want to give a videotaped deposition for fear Cutler will put it in on the Internet.
I can't say that I am particularly surprised. Cutler exuded as sense of personal entitlement without the notion of personal responsibility. The fact that she made plenty of money from her book deal, which included a hefty advance, and her Playboy pictorial and still can't manage her finances tells me she has some serious responsibility issues, like an inability to get and hold a job.

Of course, when you have sex with your co-workers and blab about it, most employers are understandably reluctant to hire you. Your past will often come back to haunt you.

1 comment:

TurbineGuy said...

She wrote anonymously, and was outed by wonkette. Of course she enjoyed the limelight after her name was made public.

She isn't the most sympathetic character, but Robert Steinbuch is a whiner.