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In tonight’s edition, Wednesday night, 180 hacks and flacks, editors and executives descended on Sweet Linda in the East Village to celebrate a year of Breaker in a blowout downtown Manhattan media party in partnership with Bilt. Below are some of our in-house pap-snaps capturing just some of the candid moments from the night — including “The Breaker Priest” who was on hand to give our sinners their penance.
Plus, there’s a new twist in a defamation lawsuit battle involving a D.C. power fixer and a major tech exec. We broke the news in this column last year, and tonight we have an exclusive update.
And it’s Thursday, which means Journo Jobs is back. Tonight, we have gigs at The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Bulwark, The Free Press, CNN, The Information, and there’s a stack of internship opportunities at ABC News New York as well.
Breaker Birthday Bash
Breaker celebrated a milestone on Wednesday night with our first birthday bash co-hosted with our friends at Bilt. A who’s who of hacks and flacks, editors and execs packed into East Village cocktail lounge Sweet Linda to share a bevvy and some banter.
A hand-crafted cocktail list, including The My Golly Gosh, The Breaker Super Belter, and the You Beauty, kept guests hydrated, while the Breaker Priest was on hand to hear guests’ media confessions and dole out their penance.
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Amongst those there: Mark Guiducci, Claire Howorth, Keith Poole, Carole Radziwill, Ankur Jain, Erika Hammond, Sean Walsh, Maureen McNally, Max Crespo, Peter Lattman, Sophia Efthimiatou, Bradley Singer, Olivia Metzger, Tom Keaney, Oli Coleman, Oliver Darcy, Max Tani, Erik Maza, Charlotte Klein, Jessica Testa, Katie Robertson, Harrison Vail, Vicky Ward, Nick Bell, Paul Choix, Pamela Paul, Patrick Lenihan, Rachel Keidan, Lis Smith, Lauren Starke, Lauren Townsend, Luke Carron, Matt Hotard, Mark Stenberg, Matt Negrin, Maria Comella, Meliisa Korn, Jamie Heller, Jeannie Kedas, Jeffrey Schneider, Jesse Rodriguez, Joe Marchese, Julia Black, Justin Rocket Silverman, Kim Last, David Jeans, Peter Kafka, Ed Lee, Gabriel Brotman, Hasan Hashmi, Hugo Lowell, Isabella Simonetti, Jack Walker, James Goldston, Brian Niemietz, Carl Swanson, Charlie Stadtlander, Chelsea Sells, Chris Balfe, Christa Robinson, Corbin Bolies, Danielle Rhodes Ha, Adam Aresty, Alexandra Bruell, Ali Zelenka, Alison Rudnick, Andrew Kirell, Anthony Dorsey, Ashok Sinha, Aude White, Sean McNulty, Rohan Goswami, Stu Loeser, Tatiana Siegel, Toby Wilkinson, Todd Courtney, Deniz Sonmez, Mikela Rodriguez, Frannie Vuilleman, Will Payne and more.
If You Break It: Breaker atones for his sins Wednesday night at our first birthday party in Partnership with Bilt. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Have You Confessed Yet? New York Post Editor Keith “Keefy” Poole, and Bilt’s Sean Walsh contemplate visiting The Breaker confessional. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Rat Pack: CULTURED Magazine’s Ian Malone, Gravity Strategic Partner’s Harrison Vail, and “Early Thirties” author Josh Duboff at the Breaker Birthday Bash at Sweet Linda. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Know Your ABC’s: Former colleagues Julie Townsend, Jeffrey Schneider, and James Goldston catch up on the good ‘ol days. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Season 16: Real Housewife Carole Radziwill; Sweet Linda Owner Max Crespo, and Breaker. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Only Fans: TKO’s Maura McGeevy, WME’s Bradley Singer, and TikTok’s Nathaniel Brown. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Confess: We had so many media sinners in the house, the Breaker Priest (Comedian Brittany Mignanelli) was on hand to give penance. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
101: 3 Arts Entertainment’s Olivia Metzger, and MS NOW’s Jesse Rodriguez (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
This Close To Beating Breaker To Murdoch’s Birthday: Fox’s Brian Nick with CNN’s Andrew Kirrell and Semafor’s Maxi Tani details the competitive pressure we had to the world exclusive photos of Rupert Murdoch’s 95th birthday. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Let's Do The Fucking News: CBS’ new comms boss, Jeremy Adler, and Heller’s Nate Evans ask why Bari Weiss’ beefy bodyguards weren’t at Breaker’s birthday party. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Having a Ball: The Wall Street Journal’s Sarah Ball puts up with Breaker’s banter. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Bilt This This City: Bilt founder Ankur Jain enjoys a laugh. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
We Are Learning Nothing: Breaker’s Associate Producer, Kathryn Wilkens, and our Business Lead, Joseph Augustine, compare notes about their internship with Breaker. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Save Me From This Man: Breaker Copyeditor extraordinaire, Nick King, and Gabrielle Lyons celebrate one year of Breaker. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Feed Us: Feed Me’s Cami Fateh quizzed Breaker’s guests and us about the origins of the Breaker fedora. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Ride or Die: MS NOW’s Richard Hudock keeps an eye on Breaker.
Sly Fox: Fox News’ Porter Berry is out of the foxhole, but not out of uniform. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Confidenti@l: Former colleagues Marianne Garvey, Oli Coleman, and Brian Niemietz reunite. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Another Summit? Semafor’s Rachel Keidan and ace reporter Rohan Goswami work the phones no doubt answering queries from Ben and Justin Smith. (Credit: Victor G. Jeffreys II for Breaker Media)
Gloves Off
(Exclusive.) Last year, we broke the news that D.C. power fixer Juleanna Glover, who has worked for Elon Musk and James Murdoch, was being sued for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and civil conspiracy by Oracle exec Kenneth Glueck.
Glueck is also suing South African businessman André Pienaar, the founder and chief executive of investment firm C5 Capital, and another of Glover’s clients.
The legal action follows one of Glover’s famous soirees hosted at her Kalorama home, attended by reporters from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and others. It’s the conversations that flowed into the evening that allegedly sparked controversy.
The lawsuit alleges the October meeting was “part of a broader campaign – pitching other journalists – planned and executed by Pienaar and Glover to redirect attention from Pienaar’s own business failures by claiming that Pienaar’s troubles were somehow of Glueck’s making.”
“Pienaar and Glover proceeded to deliver to the assembled journalists a defamatory rant about Glueck while detouring into a fantastical, largely fictional, autobiography of Pienaar,” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit goes on to claim that Glover told the assembled journalists that other people had warned her that Glueck would “come after you” and had targeted others with false narratives.
Breaker has now learned that the stakes in the litigation have increased with…
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