HM is alive and well (and apparently his real name is Tucker)

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Judge orders beauty queen story off Web site

May 8, 2003

BY ART GOLAB Staff Reporter Advertisement

A Florida judge has ordered a self-proclaimed expert on picking up women to stop spilling details of his relationship with a former Miss Vermont on his Web site.

The judge issued a temporary injunction against former Chicagoan Tucker Max, in response to a suit filed by two-time Miss Vermont Katy Johnson, which alleged Max was exploiting her name for commercial gain.

Max maintains a Web site where he posts tales of his drunken adventures and supposed sexual exploits. One of them, "The Miss Vermont Story," purports to describe having sex with Johnson on their first date. He also uses the site to promote a book he wrote on pickup lines, as well as other merchandise.

The injunction orders Max to remove all references to Johnson from his site, and from "disclosing any stories, facts or information, notwithstanding its truth, about any intimate or sexual act engaged in by the plaintiff." It also requires Max to post a $10,000 bond to cover Johnson's potential damages.

"I can't really comment on the specifics of the case until I've had a chance to review it," said Max, who now lives in Austin, Texas. Meanwhile, the "Miss Vermont" story remained up on his site by Wednesday night.

Johnson's attorney, Michael Santucci, described the ruling as a victory that "should send a clear message to all parasitic smut peddlers who live off the good name of others." He also stated that Johnson, who promotes sexual abstinence to young beauty pageant contestants on her own Web site, "emphatically denies" the story on Max's site.

First Amendment expert and University of Minnesota law professor Jane Kirtley said such injunctions are unusual in pure free speech cases, but the fact that Max conducts some business on his site clouds the issue.

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Tucker Max lives on. Anyone who is an attorney probably remembers getting an e-mail about this kid around the summer of 2000. He was a summer associate at a firm in the bay area (I think) and was fired after getting trashed at the firm's summer auction and allegedly hitting on some partner's wives. I'll see if there is a link floating around.

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Dola...

The Auction Story is here. He does sound a bit like HM, come to think of it.

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I was unhappy with this, so I immediately posted this info on the Infirmation.com Silicon Valley/SF Greedy Associate board, and then, using four or five different anonymous screen names, proceeded to have a thread discussion on how horrible this was, how Fenwick was insulting it’s summers, how no one was going to accept their offers because the firm was so cheap it wouldn’t fork over the extra 300 a week, etc, etc. I even used one of my aliases to play the other side. It was beautiful. Of the 20 messages on this topic on the first day, I probably posted 10 of them. I kept this up, at a slightly lower output, for about three days.

Plus, the way he phrased the conversation, I just thought he was talking about unimportant stuff--I am not very adept at picking up subtle social cues, and even though this was not a subtle one, I wasn’t picking it up.

I can’t really remember because they were things that don’t even register on my radar as “events”, yet others found them to be “seismic.” For instance, one day, one of the recruiters came into my office, and I was on the phone. She asked who I was talking too, and I said, “Oh, I was just calling a porn line.” Obviously, I was kidding; I later found out she was mortified

Damn, you're right. This guy sounds like HM more and more...

Edit: Holy crap, the more I read about this guy the more of a total ass I realize he is. The sad thing is that's he's proud of it. Like this crap here.

Total ass...