Woman Gives Birth To Octuplets In California

[Jholi]

RadarOnline reportedly paid $40,000 to talk to octuplet grandma
02:43 PM PT, Feb 12 2009

[snip]

The interview, which was posted on RadarOnline on Sunday night, was picked up by ABC's "Good Morning America," which paid what the network said was a "nominal fee" to license the footage.

Paying such licensing fees for photos and videos is a common practice among morning news programs, which use them to skirt news division policies that prohibit paying for interviews. But now it appears that ABC may have paid to license an interview that was purchased outright.


According to Joann Killeen, Nadya Suleman's publicist, RadarOnline gave Angela Suleman $40,000 for the exclusive.

"I had to put a gag on Nadya's mother, who sold her out to RadarOnline," she told LA Weekly. "They paid her $40,000 to sell [Nadya] out, and she can't talk about her daughter for three months."

In an interview earlier this week, RadarOnline managing editor David Perel said his organization paid the celebrity photo agency Splash News to license photos used in the piece, but refused to say whether Angela Suleman herself benefited financially. When pressed by a reporter on the subject, he hung up the phone.

An ABC News spokesman today reiterated that the network paid simply to license the footage, but had no other comment.

-- Matea Gold
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/02/radaronline-rep.html
​

They put a "gag" on Nadya's mother? :furious:

How dare they? Not only is it obscenely manipulative to keep her from telling her side, but it's disgusting that they self-righteously accuse her of "selling [Nadya] out" after they and Nadya have thrown the poor woman under the bus with their comments.

Let the poor woman speak, and I, for one, am happy to see her get some money herself, after all she's sacrificed.

 

[biggirl]

As always, JMHO, but I think the irresponsible Quack that implanted all the embryos should be financially responsible. I think HE should have to pay support for all these little beings that he helped bring into the world.

He knew she was not working. He knew she already had 6. And I say a big "so what" if she said "she wanted" to have them all implanted. He knew it was the wrong thing to do and could have said NO.

He need to PAY!

 

[Cubby]

No idea if links will work, copied from elsewhere, but her church is supposedly NOT buying her a home.

Pastor: Church NOT finding Octo-mom
home<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/Radar/AllArticles/%7E3/538369742/this-week\
-the-publicist-for.php>This
week, sources close to Octo-mom Nadya Suleman told RadarOnline.com that her
church was helping her locate a new home for her and her 14 babies. When we
called the church for comment, it gave us this statement: "In response to
recent inquires and
» Read full article on[Radar Online: All
Articles]<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/Radar/AllArticles/%7E3/538369742/this\
-week-the-publicist-for.php>

 

[Jholi]

No idea if links will work, copied from elsewhere, but her church is supposedly NOT buying her a home.

Pastor: Church NOT finding Octo-mom
home<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/Radar/AllArticles/%7E3/538369742/this-week\
-the-publicist-for.php>This
week, sources close to Octo-mom Nadya Suleman told RadarOnline.com that her
church was helping her locate a new home for her and her 14 babies. When we
called the church for comment, it gave us this statement: "In response to
recent inquires and
» Read full article on[Radar Online: All
Articles]<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/Radar/AllArticles/%7E3/538369742/this\
-week-the-publicist-for.php>

Ouch. That was quite a statement! LOL Looks like they are a little miffed at the dishonesty and being used, too.

This publicity firm is pathetic. Either they are as willful deceivers as their client, or they suck at fact-checking what she says before publicizing it. Her repeatedly being caught in these prevarications only confirm people's worst suspicions about her integrity.

 

[Cubby]

Thanks Johli- cool hat by the way, so I assume the links I copied worked?

 

[Jholi]

As always, JMHO, but I think the irresponsible Quack that implanted all the embryos should be financially responsible. I think HE should have to pay support for all these little beings that he helped bring into the world.

He knew she was not working. He knew she already had 6. And I say a big "so what" if she said "she wanted" to have them all implanted. He knew it was the wrong thing to do and could have said NO.

He need to PAY!

He definitely needs to be first in line to open his wallet. I expect his career is all but over, too. His history of unethical practices is being dug through, and just today there's news of other women he's crossed the line with.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/02/the-beverly-hil.html

 

[Jholi]

Thanks Johli- cool hat by the way, so I assume the links I copied worked?

Thanks! They worked just fine.

 

[Lorraining]

I don't usually watch Dr. Phil, but watched it tonight when I saw it was about this case. Some interesting things were brought up. I didn't realize that the same doctor that had impregnated her with the other six children, also did the invitro on the octuplets. This is the same doctor that her parents and according to Dr. Phil, the sperm donor, begged to not do it again. IMO, this doctor needs to lose his license.

There was a plastic surgeon on the show that said that he believes she's had about $30,000 worth of plastic surgery.....nose, lips, cheeks and chin. He based this on 25 years of experience and having studied photos of her from high school until more recently.

Her publicist said that Nadya and the first six children moved into a hotel about 72 hours ago due to death threats, but that they are back home with grandmother in the tiny house now.

I wouldn't be surprised if her publicist doesn't kick her to the curb soon.

 

[SallyLu]

Thanks for the link Cubby.

Gosh this woman is good......


Jholi, the PR team have repped a lot of people but I agree - they've got their hands full with this one.

 

[Elphaba]

Nadya's mom has been raising 6 kids without her daughter's help... so I have no qualms about her getting $40,000... she needs it.

Funny how the Nadya camp isn't denying all of the things her mother has said, but complaining about her selling Nadya out. Guess they think that mom is suppose to be loyal to Nadya's lies and what-have-yous. Too bad, too sad... even a mother has a right to speak out against their child, especially if that child is taking advantage of you, milking the system, and spinning lies like no tomorrow.

 

[chicagofa13]

I've been avoiding this thread, it has my BP up too high! I had to laugh that she had gone into hiding, well what did you think would happen when you asked for donations on a website and told the world MediCal was paying for your kids! They get PI***D and write mean comments on websites!!!

 

[LillyRush]

Well, since Dr. Phil is all about funding this fiasco, I think he needs to step up to the plate and designate himself as the personal chair of her fundraising committee.

 

[LillyRush]

Here's the story about the other possible "multiple" pregnancy connected to the same doctor. Although, this woman is denying that he is her fertility specialist and is asking to be left alone. It's interesting that this 49 yr old woman got pregnant from a younger woman's egg donations. Maybe that was another one of Nadya "alternate sources of income"?


http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/02/octodoc-involved-in-another-multipregnancy.php
"Octo-Doc" Involved In Another Multi-Pregnancy
The Beverly Hills doctor who helped Nadya Suleman conceive octuplets also provided fertility treatment to a 49-year-old woman who is pregnant with quadruplets and is hospitalized at County-USC Medical Center, according to the L.A. Times.



Several sources told The Times that Dr. Michael Kamrava transferred at least seven embryos made from younger donor eggs to the woman.

 

[Boyz_Mum]

RadarOnline reportedly paid $40,000 to talk to octuplet grandma
02:43 PM PT, Feb 12 2009

[snip]

The interview, which was posted on RadarOnline on Sunday night, was picked up by ABC's "Good Morning America," which paid what the network said was a "nominal fee" to license the footage.

Paying such licensing fees for photos and videos is a common practice among morning news programs, which use them to skirt news division policies that prohibit paying for interviews. But now it appears that ABC may have paid to license an interview that was purchased outright.


According to Joann Killeen, Nadya Suleman's publicist, RadarOnline gave Angela Suleman $40,000 for the exclusive.

"I had to put a gag on Nadya's mother, who sold her out to RadarOnline," she told LA Weekly. "They paid her $40,000 to sell [Nadya] out, and she can't talk about her daughter for three months."

In an interview earlier this week, RadarOnline managing editor David Perel said his organization paid the celebrity photo agency Splash News to license photos used in the piece, but refused to say whether Angela Suleman herself benefited financially. When pressed by a reporter on the subject, he hung up the phone.

An ABC News spokesman today reiterated that the network paid simply to license the footage, but had no other comment.

-- Matea Gold
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/02/radaronline-rep.html
​

They put a "gag" on Nadya's mother? :furious:

How dare they? Not only is it obscenely manipulative to keep her from telling her side, but it's disgusting that they self-righteously accuse her of "selling [Nadya] out" after they and Nadya have thrown the poor woman under the bus with their comments.

Let the poor woman speak, and I, for one, am happy to see her get some money herself, after all she's sacrificed.

I could easily be persuaded that Nadya's mother may have been "in on" the whole thing. Let me ask you this... if I wrote a book about my newborn baby's skin falling off when I touched him, and my mom (retired nurse) wrote a book about how terrible it was for her to care for the baby in my absence, which book would you buy? Which story would you empathize with? Either way, if my mother and I were in "cahoots"... books were purchased, our stories were told AND we made money in the end.

Good cop, bad cop.... I still haven't decided if anyone involved is a good cop. I have felt so many conflicting emotions regarding this case and perhaps Nadya's mother is an enabler- it happens. I want so badly to believe that Angela is the angel we think she is BUT there is the nagging feeling that both women are playing 2 ends against the middle.

 

[Boyz_Mum]

There is NO way a 2 yr old could be dx with ADD! not unless the doc is a quack that is. and a 2 yr old with a speech problem? how would you know? 2 yr olds are just learning to talk!

2 year olds are diagnosed quite frequently with ADHD. Also, per a speech therapist, a child is "supposed to have" a certain command of the English (in the USA) language at certain ages.

 

[azwriter]

Hi AZ,

Yes, I really do mean it. Of course I can imagine maybe keeping them in some grouping of multiples - like the twins together, two or three or maybe even four of them placed together in a loving financially secure home where a couple has been waiting for this blessing. I would advocate keeping them in touch with one another.

This woman is a nutjob. The bottom line - spending money on creating more children when she can't support the ones she has, she hasn't finished school and expects her student loans to support 14 kids, she's even spending money on plastic surgery (which made her look worse rose, imo) - Good God, she doesn't deserve those kids.

Also if she think a Master's in Counseling is going to be a lucrative job to raise 14 kids she's dreaming, especially if her prospective clients find out WHO their counselor to be is!

Eve

Right Eve. Who would ever seek counseling from her! She's a joke as a mental health professional. I have been watching this story go by and each day brings something more unbelievable. One thing I noticed today was watching the clip of her bouncing one of her original 6 tots on her knee. Didn't we see Michael Jackson doing this same thing with his baby nicknamed "Blanket."
This type of attention to a baby who isn't even fussing or crying looks so phony. Is it just me, but isn't she looking a little like Michael Jackson, too?

 

[azwriter]

I've been avoiding this thread, it has my BP up too high! I had to laugh that she had gone into hiding, well what did you think would happen when you asked for donations on a website and told the world MediCal was paying for your kids! They get PI***D and write mean comments on websites!!!

Hiding? With six kids under the age of 7? Sure she is.
Watch that BP chicagofa.

 

[LillyRush]

The publicist has reportedly forwarded on all the death threats, by email and so on, to the LAPD and they are now officially investigating the alleged threats.

LA police to investigate threats to octuplet mom

By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER, Associated Press Writer Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 45 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – Police said Thursday they will investigate death threats against octuplet mother Nadya Suleman and advise her publicist on how to handle a torrent of other nasty messages that have flooded his office.
-snip-

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_re_us/octuplets

 

[Boyz_Mum]

The publicist has reportedly forwarded on all the death threats, by email and so on, to the LAPD and they are now officially investigating the alleged threats.

LA police to investigate threats to octuplet mom

By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER, Associated Press Writer Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 45 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – Police said Thursday they will investigate death threats against octuplet mother Nadya Suleman and advise her publicist on how to handle a torrent of other nasty messages that have flooded his office.
-snip-

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_re_us/octuplets

Were the death threats that flooded "his office" internet threats from the website she has *and her publicist created*? This is where the lawyer(s) might come into play (I guessed that a lawyer is going to be involved earlier on).

These people are out to make money and I have a feeling they won't stop until they do. JMO! (Every angle of this story seems to point at some sort of a payout...)

 

[LillyRush]

Were the death threats that flooded "his office" internet threats from the website she has *and her publicist created*? This is where the lawyer(s) might come into play (I guessed that a lawyer is going to be involved earlier on).

These people are out to make money and I have a feeling they won't stop until they do. JMO! (Every angle of this story seems to point at some sort of a payout...)

I'm thinking they are talking about messages that have been posted on her donation site and also phone messages, etc. left with the public relations agency. It's interesting now that they realize they aren't going to be making too much money off her "amazing" story, that they're trying to play the victim and get money that way too.