{"id":3256,"date":"2017-10-23T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2017-10-23T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T08:40:13","slug":"kathy-v-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/kathy-v-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy v. Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kathy Griffin&nbsp;<\/strong>may be kicking off her world tour in Australia, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped her from making waves here in the States.&nbsp; She&nbsp;<em>Tweeted<\/em>, &#8220;Dear @LisaBloom pls stop calling me.&nbsp; If you&#8217;d like to refund me the tens of thousands of $$ I wasted on your services maybe I&#8217;ll talk to you.&#8221;&nbsp; You&#8217;ll recall that&nbsp;<strong>Bloom<\/strong>, spawn of famed legal eagle&nbsp;<strong>Gloria Allred<\/strong>, represented Griffin at her now-infamous press conference regarding the photo of a beheaded former TV host.&nbsp; Bloom responded, saying that Kathy deviated from the script the lawyers hammered out.&nbsp; &#8220;I was sorry she made that choice but I respected her right to speak as she saw fit.&nbsp; She was, as she always says, then widely panned for her comments.&nbsp; Now she blames me.&nbsp; She&#8217;s the only client I&#8217;ve ever had who chose to extemporize at a press conference rather than read from notes we prepared in advance.&#8221;&nbsp; Bloom ended her statement with this, &#8220;I still believe that Kathy Griffin is one of the funniest comics alive, that she meant no ill will with the photo, and I wish her the best.&#8221;&nbsp; And she&#8217;s welcomed back anytime.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy then revealed that Bloom attempted to cajole her into a joint media tour.&nbsp; While Bloom presented the TV offers as insistent on having the attorney present, the same people privately told Kathy they&#8217;d be happy to have her alone.&nbsp; &#8220;If you want my Lisa Bloom statement, anybody, OK, here it is.&nbsp; Yes, I got &#8216;Bloomed&#8217;.&nbsp; Yes, I did not have a good experience with her.&nbsp; I felt that she and her husband exacerbated my personal situation.&nbsp; The horrible press conference was a disaster.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not gonna sue Lisa Bloom.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think Lisa Bloom should be shot, like people want to shoot me.&nbsp; So there&#8217;s my fucking statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Griffin&nbsp;may be kicking off her world tour in Australia, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped her from making waves here in the States.&nbsp; She&nbsp;Tweeted, &#8220;Dear @LisaBloom pls stop calling me.&nbsp; If you&#8217;d like to refund me the tens of thousands of $$ I wasted on your services maybe I&#8217;ll talk to you.&#8221;&nbsp; You&#8217;ll recall that&nbsp;Bloom, spawn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}