Did Amy Griffin REALLY Target NY Times Reporter's Children? | Billy Bush REACTS

Lauren was with me yesterday. I went over to Juicy Scoop, the studio of Heather McDonald, and spent a little north of an hour with her taping her podcast. Lovely, lovely person. Great conversationalist. So that should be coming out. um and it's interesting because we we talked about a lot of things Meghan Markle's dad who you know the comment section doesn't like uh for example crazy about Meghan Markle's dirtbag dad, says C-Dubs right there uh yeah she wanted to talk about that that was the first and then we uh we talked about uh the evolution of the Amy Griffin story and this is what's interesting ever since I went to that wedding and ever since Amy approached me there and that whole thing happened, you know, people have been sort of catching up. It's almost like this fascinating story that was a boutique story has kind of gotten bigger. In fact, you know, on Sunday, Ben Smith, the former New York Times media reporter who now is the editor-in-chief of Semaphore he wrote about these alleged you know retaliations from Amy and so Page Six yesterday they i was always amazed at why uh yeah see Page Six did this here the Times journalists children allegedly became billionaire memoirists focus that is just not a headline you want to read when you are a billionaire uh especially billionaires need to lay low and i mean like people inherently don't like billionaires you know i mean you get oh this person's a billionaire but it's you know who who feels good for people that have a billion dollars you need that so lay low and be super charitable but uh Page Six I always thought why would why are they so silent i thought this is the exact type of story of very wealthy socialite, you know, in controversy is what Page Six was sort of built on in New York. But they were silent on the whole thing. But they've written now on the back of the Ben Smith article in Semaphore, Ben reported on allegations that Amy tried to retaliate against a New York Times reporter, the reporter who initiated the whole investigation back in September of 2023, Katie Rossman and her partner, Liz Egan, Semaphore reported on the allegations that Amy was targeting the reporter's children out of retaliation. The alleged threat happened at Ari Emanuel's Aspen retreat shortly after the big investigation in the New York Times came out. Amy was there at Ari's annual gathering with her husband according to a person seated with her Amy complained that Katie Rossman of the New York Times had made life miserable for her family how could she do this and allegedly said that she intended to do the same to her son which you know you're sitting there hearing that you're like whoa what is this mafia stuff the person who reportedly heard Amy's remarks contacted an intermediary to alert Katie Rossman hey you need to know this Semaphore says that three people familiar with the exchange corroborated that warning so months after this Aspen encounter Amy allegedly approached someone with influence over admissions at a major American university i think i know which one uh they have a big house and asked that uh that person to prevent Katie's children from being admitted. Semaphore cites a person with direct knowledge of the conversation. That person says they did not act on the request. Never happened. New York Times got its lawyers involved to protect their writer. Katie informed the newspaper all about this, and their general counsel, David McCraw, subsequently spoke with Amy's attorney, Tom Clare. The attorneys provided different accounts of the conversation, but both acknowledge that it happened. Amy categorically denies both allegations of retaliation, both. Her spokesperson says she never threatened either of Rossman's children or contacted anybody associated with a school or university about them. Amy's spokesperson acknowledges that she expressed distress over the impact of the Times story on her daughter, but says the words were mischaracterized. So the New York Times has issued a strong response, okay? because, call it a coincidence, the statute of limitations for Amy to sue them as she threatened, allegedly, reportedly, at the Aspen retreat there. She had threatened, I'm going to sue the New York Times. What they've done is defamation with this investigation. But that statute has expired, okay? September 24th, 2023, so a month ago, it expired, which allows their spokesman at The Times, Charlie Stattmiller, to call the allegations, if accurate, he said, a stunning abuse of power and influence against a journalist's family and defended The Times' original reporting. And by the way, we've said this, the original reporting in The New York Times has stood up valiantly. Because remember, when Amy filed her lawsuit, there was, or excuse me, when Jolene Altam, the young woman with whom she went to eighth grade who sued Amy, when that happened, Amy's lawyers immediately moved for some discovery saying, okay, show us. Amy always felt that the New York Times was really behind this and that they had groomed this girl that Amy went to school with to say that her story of abuse was stolen by Amy, they groomed her, they shaped her, they they planted everything, it was the New York Times the New York Times, the New York Times and in that discovery moment there, uh Amy got access, her lawyers got access to Jolene's emails and exchanges and communications with New York Times writers Katie Rossman and Liz Egan, they got to see all that you couldn't get it from the Times because they're protected, they're journalists but because this woman had sued her and she said, okay let's see the communications. Now I'm going to find all the evidence I need that these New York Times journalists groomed this woman and set the whole thing up like an entrapment So they looked at him, found nothing, absolutely found nothing So it stood the test of time there. Now, keep in mind, no reported evidence that Katie Rossman's son was actually harmed or that anyone interfered with her kids' college admissions, okay in the end nothing happened, it was probably just unattractive bluster because she felt cornered on her story, so that's it, we are one week away from the midterms, yikes, uh it's very hot also in Israel, my god, it's Netanyahu and Idan Kifner or whatever whatever his name is, did I say cop cot cot cot who thought that sounded like something else, which way will Israel go, we will find out very shortly, welcome guys, welcome upside down pineapplers um my producer Lauren Mincer Clark who is a lovely human um do you know why people um share volume on uh do you know why these people in the in the chat section are upside down pineapplers or do you know what that means so i do know what it means i've heard of the upside down pineapplers alluding to swinging um and especially like on cruises like what are you talking about no these are people that like outside of your door upside down like that's apparently what it is i don't know but i okay when i joined in i did have i was wondering i saw a lot of them and i see a lot of pineapples in the comments you see the pineapples that are firing in the chat section and once i mean back months in the in the beginning of things uh we discussed this and uh you know there's all kinds people said if you if there was a garage door left a foot a jar from the ground that was a sign another person said well you know if there's two adirondack chairs in front of the house that says swingers inside and then someone said the upside down pineapple and then we had this woman who was like very active in the chat section somebody must have scared her away we don't know where she went but she went on a cruise and she said i'm gonna report back you guys my husband is going to be with me so i feel safe we're going to put upside down pineapples outside of our door on the cruise and see what freakos you know what tala freakos come back but you never heard back from her about the cruise never heard back from her we don't know what happened so we're still waiting for the report not to say that the report won't come in maybe it's just extremely delayed or she said yes to the they knocked on the door they came in and she has now found a new life and she's actively swinging and swinging so hard she has no time for anything else like follow-up okay learn something new every day thanks