Philippines – Gucci Gang Controversy

This event is pretty old, but it didn’t explode until ABS-CBN Newchannel TV blew it up to mass media on March 27th.  An Australian I never heard of, Brian Gorell, lost $70k to his ex-lover for a restaurant.  They were supposed to make it together, but it never manifested, and Gorell has the transfer documents to back up his claim.

So he took it upon himself to reveal scandalous photos and stories of DJ Montano and his friends until he gets his money back.  Here’s an excerpt from the Wikipedia article (which is locked for editing, surprisingly):

The Gucci Gang controversy is a series of events that involved an Australian blogger Brian Gorrell who published his accusation against his former boyfriend of swindling him of money totaling US$70,000.[1][2] Gorrell’s blog, which was first published on March 4, 2008, has also accused his ex’s well-to-do friends, whom he tagged as “Gucci Gang”, of attempting to cover up the deed and striking back at him.[3] The blog has since become a major gossip topic in Philippines‘ capital city Manila, exposing its high-society youths’ alleged freeloading lifestyle and addiction to cocaine.[4][5] It has also tested Philippine and Australian online libel laws, and raised questions about the extent of freedom of speech in blogging.[6][7][8]

The blog was taken down for a day and returned, but with comments disabled.

Personally, I don’t know what the big deal is, or who the people involved are.  However, people have been calling it bigger than the previously-mentioned Edison Chan Sex Scandal.

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