Casey Anthony: Is a $350,000 offer coming her way? - Hal

Casey Anthony: Is a $350,000 offer coming her way?
posted by halboedeker on January, 10 2012 8:31 AM

As the Casey turns …

There are new twists in the long-running, multimedia soap opera of Casey Anthony, who re-emerged in video clips posted online last week.

In July, Anthony was acquitted of murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. Anthony had been in seclusion since then, a move that might have bolstered her value for a paid interview. Money is a huge issue for the destitute Anthony, who says she remains unemployed while serving a year’s probation somewhere in Florida for check fraud. The videos’ release would seem to have undercut efforts to market Anthony.

But RadarOnline.com, citing “a source close to the situation,” reports that the website The Dirty has offered Anthony $350,000 for an interview.

RadarOnline.com reports: “While the big four networks have refused to pay Anthony for an interview, citing the backlash of groups across the country who are threatening to boycott anyone that gives Casey money for an interview, The Dirty apparently has no qualms about shelling out big bucks for the exclusive get.”

What do you think of that?

Nik Lamas-Richie, founder of the website The Dirty, made the Anthony offer, RadarOnline.com reported. Lamas recently came in for a drubbing from Anderson Cooper on the CNN newsman’s syndicated daytime talk show, “Anderson.”

“You are looking for garbage,” Cooper told Lamas-Richie. “You’re looking for the lowest common denominator.”

TheDirty.com describes itself as “all about gossip and satire. The content that is published contains rumors, speculation, assumptions, opinions, and factual information. Postings may contain erroneous or inaccurate information.”

Wait, there’s more. Diane Dimond, writing for The Daily Beast, focuses on frictions in the Anthony camp. How are relations among Anthony and her defense attorneys Cheney Mason and Jose Baez? Not good, evidently.

In a juicy post, Dimond writes: “People close to both men report a recent major falling out among all the parties — between Baez and Anthony, between Baez and Mason — sparked by Anthony’s displeasure at Baez’s inability to win her a TV, book, or movie deal. Anthony apparently gave Baez until the end of the year to come up with a deal, and absent that anointed Mason as her official liaison.”

Will we see an expanded role for Mason?

Dimond adds: “As one person close to this story who did not want to be identified put it, ‘Jose is on the outs now. Cheney is in.’ ”

Dimond says that Mason and Baez did not answer repeated emails and phone calls for comments.

So the Casey soap opera continues to turn …

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