Caught on Video: Top High Fashion Designer’s Drunken Anti-Semitic Rant
- Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:25am by
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PARIS (AP) — Famed fashion designer John Galliano raged against a couple at a Paris cafe with threats, expletives and a remark referring to the man’s alleged Asian background, a witness said Saturday.
Details and new video of the British-born designer moments after the cafe melee emerged a day after Christian Dior SA suspended him from his post as creative director at Dior fashion house.
The case puts a question mark over the one of fashion’s biggest-name houses and the designer, who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant of his generation and has brought youth and freshness to Dior.
The suspension, coming nearly a week before Dior’s fall-winter 2011-2012 ready-to-wear show in Paris, stemmed from accusations that Galliano made an anti-Semitic insult during the spat Thursday.
He has denied any wrongdoing, and objects to the suspension.
Witness Marion Bully said she sat nearby at La Perle cafe in the Marais district, and her first star-struck reaction was “Whoa” after seeing Galliano sitting alone at a table with a mojito.
Then she noticed his dispute with the couple.
“There seemed to be a tense atmosphere, and then I realized John Galliano was speaking to the woman and telling her things that were pretty disagreeable,” Bully told Associated Press Television News in an interview at her apartment in northeast Paris. “We heard him say, ‘You are really ugly.’”
At one point, after Galliano had repeated insulted the woman, “the man picked up a chair and threatened to throw the chair at him,” she added.
“At this point, John Galliano started getting really aggressive,” she said, quoting the designer as saying: “‘Now, don’t touch me!’” and referring to the man’s alleged Asian background with a string of expletives.
Amateur video obtained by Associated Press Television News showed Galliano at the scene, being guided back to his seat by what appeared to be a security guard. A man in the video was complaining about Galliano’s behavior.
Paris prosecutors said Friday that police questioned and released the designer after the couple accused him of making an anti-Semitic comment at them. Prosecutors and police said Galliano’s blood alcohol levels were high.
Making anti-Semitic remarks is illegal in France, and can bring up to six months in prison. Some public figures have been convicted on such charges in the past, but are usually given only suspended sentences.
Bully said she didn’t hear Galliano make any anti-Semitic remarks, and said she could not corroborate a comment by a police official on Friday that the designer had exchanged slaps with the couple.
Galliano lawyer Stephane Zerbib said in an APTN interview that the designer filed a complain against the couple for alleged defamation, threats and insults.
Christian Dior said Galliano’s suspension would remain in effect pending an investigation.
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jettson
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:20amIt’s gone How can that be??? BS
Report Post »Rubicon Cross
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 11:20pmA fly run over by a steam roller would be more worthwhile than this uman piece of waste and the liberal lefty socialists from Hollywood who buy and wear his human excrement…
Report Post »Grandpa Harley
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 10:39pmNothing to see here. Just a piece of human debris, like a person with ink all over their body screaming…”LOOK AT ME, I’M SPECIAL” and we all know they are just weird.
Report Post »Impeach Obama
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:19pmIsn’t it illeagal to say the N word here (well for whites) ? So France and USA not that different. Perhaps it’s best for cultures to live among themselves.
Report Post »xm-1774u
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 10:08amyawn
Report Post »Ezekiel
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 7:40amIdiots are idiots, no matter how “well” they dress.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 6:59amLet me state the obvious. If this were crazy Mel Gibson it would be on the front page of every liberal rag in the country. I just checked ABCNews.com, the flagship of the Left wing smear machine and there’s nothing.
As Glenn wisely puts it “let them talk and they will expose who they are.” In other words, give them enough rope an they will hang themselves.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 6:45amTypical anti-Christ rant.
Report Post »LibertarianLady
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 6:34amOff subject. Snowleopard you might really be interested in this artist. He has some really good religious and political fine art. Check him out.
Report Post »http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/view_zoom/?artpiece_id=379
LibertarianLady
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 6:33amThere is so much going on in the world right now. Even on a slow news day, this should not be news.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 6:13amOFF SUBJECT
Where are the reports of Americans still in Libya?
Why are American planes not rescuing people, no matter who they are? Story after story about British and German planes going in and rescuing people without PERMISSION. obama is Asking Permission out of one side of his mouth while calling for Qaddafi to step down out of the other side of his mouth.
Since when do Americans not rescue Americans? Read the reports, China…Russia…England..Germany…other small countries are all rescuing people. BUT NO American help? What is going on ?????
‘We are looking at a full range of tools and options that are available to us to achieve our goal … that certainly includes looking at sanctions that could be imposed,” US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley told a news briefing.
LOOKING AT….ACHIEVE OUR GOAL ???????
Report Post »Dick Blitskreig
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 5:55amThat’s going to hurt a little.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 3:02amYeah, we have Mel Gibson, Helen Thomas and Rick Sanchez, and THIS FOOL is what causes Euroweines to tie their grannypanties in a bunch
Report Post »:D
warrior21
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 2:56amI am with Ron Burgundy! Just watching this guy makes me sick to my stomach. Is he an American, if not, where does he come from? A woman’s clothes designer? What the hell is America’s men coming to?
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 2:12amThat entire industry is littered with those elitist momo EuroPeeons, worse than Eurotrash..
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:57amHe makes dresses for the rich and famous. Thomas Jefferson he is not
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:39amGood idea: bleep out all the incriminating stuff….
Report Post »saviorammo
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:54amSo wish the vid had that chair cracking his dome. Then what would have C.D done. Oh he was a total dick, insulted a women and her date, then got cracked.
He is a victim of bad parenting and the couple are probably tea partiers from America.
These people couldn’t even have existed 100yrs ago!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:35amSuspension .. until the heat is off and then this nasty little “man” will be right back at work …This is par for the course in fashion .
Someone shoud tell him I saw that hat on a comedy sketch … the old I LOVE LUCY show where Lucy and Ethel get potato sack dresses that are supposed to be couture. As a JOKE it was a good hat!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:41amYup.
Report Post »But he’s gonna play heck if he tries to walk in some of those ridiculous shoes! (Wonder if he does?!)
walkwithme1966
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 2:56amTime for the new fashions to be released – he will not be suspended for long! But why do we care – it is not make in the USA! http://wp.me/pYLB7-H6
Report Post »fedlibertarian
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:31amWait, who gives a damn again?? Wtf is this turd??
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:39amLol!!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 1:58amMaking anti-Semitic remarks is illegal in France, and can bring up to six months in prison.
Report Post »—————–
BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHHHHHAAAAA
If it were true, French jails would have been overflowing with mullahs and jihadies.
THIS is France now, our future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j372uC30lyg
BecksTheMan
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 3:01amToo bad it wasn’t Helen Thomas and Francis Piven in that restaurant, that other lady would have looked beautiful in comparison. I can safely say that without even seeing the lady that idiot called ugly. Come to think about it with anti semitic remarks being illegal, Helen does need to take a trip to France.
Report Post »AriBenTZion
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 3:49amI think John Galliano and Ron Reagan should date – they make a lovely couple.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 6:33amJust another turd that doesn’t produce anything real. Just subjective crap someone says is cool and then slaps a $150 price tag on it.
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PubliusPencilman
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 6:54amI saw the headline and I was thinking: Glenn Beck’s not a “Top High Fashion Designer!”
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 12:36pmAnother loony liberal racist anti-semite with diarrhea coming out of his pie-hole!!! Can‘t these people keep their friggin’ mouthes shut!!! If you feel that way, move to IRAN with that anti-semite president. I hope the people of Iran wake up to these lunatics soon, that is a “government” that really does need to be OVERTHROWN!!!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 2:00pmBarry Barack Huussein Obama Soetoro has issued a belated statement,
” A champaign summit is to be held, so the chair wielding husband can be taught that Jews are evil, they steal others lands, and their noses are large. ” .
Galliano, after finishing his fourth tumbler of Galliano, was given an American Medal of Freedom and a Nobel prize for tolerance.
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