DiMeo v. Max, The Lawsuit — And The Party!

Remember Anthony DiMeo III? He’s the guy who runs Renamity, which threw the disastrous New Year’s party where the booze was free-flowin’ until about 10:30, then it stopped. 10:30, as you might know, is well before midnight, so paintings got stolen and Le Jardin and Renamity are sparring legally and blah blah blah.

DiMeo has, in the past, filed a lawsuit against a fine alt-weekly in this city, though it escapes my mind which one it was.

Anyway, DiMeo, who’s the heir to a blueberry farm in Jersey and has shaken hands with Donald Trump, is suing another fine American institution, namely one Internet Celebrity Tucker Max.

Max is a Duke law grad who decided that the career wasn’t for him — and now he runs a website dedicated to his tales of debauchery and having as much sex as possible. His just finished up a book tour for I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, which was on the New York Times best seller list for paperback non-fiction.

Anyway, Metro’s Josh Cornfeld — who’s on the Anthony DiMeo beat, I swear — does a great and unintentionally hilarious job of summarizing the facts:

“We’re going to prove it has not only distressed him but it has caused him harm,” said DiMeo’s attorney, Matthew B. Weisberg, “both emotional distress as well as commercial.”

“Awesome,” Max said by e-mail, calling the lawsuit the best news of the week. “Please give Ant-nee my address, so as to expedite delivery of a document I anticipate to be of the highest comedy. [...]

DiMeo is suing Max for more than $1 million.

Weisberg said the comments on Max’s Web site aren’t protected by the First Amendment under a law passed by Congress last year that outlaws anonymously posting or e-mailing messages intending to annoy.

Those paragraphs might be funnier than any intentional comedy I’ve ever read. News as this develops, of course, but for now, here’s one of the threads on Tucker Max’s website that he’s being sued over.

Party heads to court [Metro]
Here’s what’s fun — you’re getting served! [Citypaper]