The company expects to make $200 million in annual revenue next year. Today, he is at the center of Barstool’s sprawling network of podcasts, livestreams, and YouTube shows, including one devoted to talking about what it’s like to be Dave Portnoy.
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Portnoy founded Barstool Sports in 2003 as a free newspaper for lowbrow content aimed at men.
Over the years, Portnoy has joked about rape while insisting he doesn’t condone it called female sports reporters “sluts” and “cunts” in the name of comedy and had several sex tapes that became public, one of which showed him choking another college-age woman. “They go after me.” Portnoy has made a habit of being brashly unapologetic, and watching his response to the article felt both bizarre and somewhat inevitable. He said it was hard for a guy like him - wealthy, big on Instagram, spends a lot of time in Miami - to turn away the droves of young women DM’ing him.
In tweets, livestream videos, and on his eponymous weekly podcast, Portnoy claimed that the Business Insider article was a “hit piece” that was part of a “witch hunt” led by the forces that had been coming after him for a decade. “Miss my dick yet?” Portnoy wrote back to her. He shared screenshots of what he said were Instagram DMs from the second woman in which she apparently reached out and expressed no immediate regret after their encounter. He said that the women had approached him and everything had been consensual. A few hours after the article came out, and apparently against the advice of legal counsel, Portnoy took to social media to deliver his own vigorous defense. All three women were given anonymity, fearing retaliation from Portnoy and his followers, both of whom have a reputation for tormenting those who cross him.įor most public figures, this would be a moment to step back. She didn’t describe the encounter as sexual assault but said she “felt very preyed on.” Another woman said Portnoy also choked and filmed her without permission. “I was literally screaming in pain.”Ī second woman, who was 19, said Portnoy had choked her and spit in her mouth. “It was so rough I felt like I was being raped,” the woman wrote to a friend in a text message two days later, according to Business Insider. One of the women, who was 20 at the time, said that in the summer of 2020, Portnoy, who was 43, filmed her performing oral sex and choked her without her permission. Portnoy was filming a response to an article published by Business Insider the day before, in which three women described distressing sexual encounters with him. It’s been a long 48 hours for your boy,” Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, said in an address to his 2.7 million Twitter followers late on a Friday night earlier this month.