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Threatening woman is Bret's raison d'etre. Either older (over 50) or young (under 30). Have you noticed his system? If a woman is his target she is a lesbian constantly ridiculed for anything regarding her looks while he calls her stupid. If its a man (gay, straight, father, whatever) then he is automatically a pedophile. I should ask Hala to dig through her files (like many Bret victims she screenshot and saved as much as possible.) Once at the start of his harassment, like April 2010, he started a 'story' on davidbrek.co.uk in response to the fact that (devoid of anything to do with him) Hala had written and released her first novel "Conversations with Rodolfo". Bret claimed it was a fictional story in which she has tons of sex with Rudy...then oddly he claimed it was a non fiction book and she was a 'liar'. Bret's 'story' consisted of taking Hala's name, Evelyn's and two women from Hala's blog comments and giving them names like 'Clitty Turin' while he himself played something named after Ramon Novarro. The woman would talk how hot all these dead stars were and 'Ramon/Bret' would correct them for being 'stupid cows' and say how 'obviously' they were all gay and wouldn't sleep with these fat ugly women anyways. This 'story' went on for like...3 chapters I think.
Hope I'm not hijacking, but if there is an interest I'm happy to tell it. Move this post if its inappropriate for this thread.
Hala started a silent film blog in 2008, she was 21 at the time and recovering from a major surgery. forgetthetalkies.com was on blogspot and she wrote about her favorite stars, including the delicious Rudolph Valentino. Well a man (who like me, happens to be gay) who runs the Valentino Memorial Service, Tracy Terhune started stalking her claiming she was writing about him and slandering his works (he also has printed two Valentino books and has a site, valentinoforever.com) and she was constantly editing her posts to hide what she said about him. Hala was so damn lazy she left typos, so yeah...sounds like a coked out paranoia excuse to me. Hala had no clue who he was, she thought it was a woman's name a year later when the stalking along with Donna Hill (another Valentino author and site runner rudolph-valentino.com) came to light.
They really amped up on her when she created the Rudolph Valentino Society (rudolphvalentino.org) and she was in the midst of arranging a film festival in Valentino's name. Terhune created a 'coalition' to stop her from writing, they hated the fact she was young and getting more attention than them. I think in Terhune's head he isn't just a God, but uber famous. Hala never has had any such pretensions about her, she is a lovely woman.
Well Terhune had not one, but two friends stalk down Hala's address and legal name in December 2009, the same time she released that novel. At this point she was made aware of Bret's writings and never one to shy away from the truth she called it on what crap it was. Bret and the like have long called her and Evelyn homophobes, yet one of Hala's dearest family members is bisexual. She could careless if any star was gay or what not, she was just in it for the facts.
Bret harassed her on the co.uk site for a few weeks before claiming his cat had died and that's why he had been so 'mean'. He also harassed her for hiding her photo on facebook (I guess he desperately wanted to mock her for however she looked.) After this Terhune put on the site I mentioned a huge slanderous piece on Hala on Christmas Day, saying she was a fraud stealing money, a high school drop out, she was too 'hick' to write about silent film, she was a failed singer (that much is true), and basically revealing all her personal information while calling her a crackpot. He also posted to her then 14 year old sister's facebook page, complete with her full legal name. He seen nothing wrong with that.
Hala was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis right before this happened and she was very sick so she put off doing much about it until February 2010 when Terhune spotted her in a sold out film screening (on what was apparently his 50 something birthday) and went home and wrote on nitrateville.com how she was so fat and 'waddled to the stage' when she won an award for a trivia question.
She put in for a restraining order against him on the police's advice (he had threatened to post her home address). She went and won a stay away order, good for a year. Terhune disobeyed it at every turn, immediately slapped her with a civil lawsuit for 'defamation' and such for $100,000, ran home, and hooked up with Bret and a man Hala new in her music days as Zachary Jaydon (who's real name was Jaydon D. Paull, she and a musician she had known only found out he had a criminal history yay long, mostly for fraud and theft, after she moved to California.) Terhune was smart enough to never leave his own fingerprints on it, but Bret immediately began the davidbret.blogspot.com harassing Hala and Evelyn.
I want to back up here a second. Evelyn Zumaya is an author of a Valentino biography that revealed a ton of new things (like the fact he had a son, his brother was about as desirable as Bret, so forth) called "Affairs Valentino". She met Hala in early 2010 and they became friends working to get her book out, as Hala's passion was and still is promoting authors she believes are well researched. Evelyn is considerably older, while Hala is in her 20s. Hala is good at promotion and writing her thoughts, but Evelyn is the one best with research (hopefully Hala won't slap me for that.) They barely knew each other when Bret took off harassing them on the blog, claiming they were all sorts of things from fat homophobic lesbians to frauds to fake researchers like himself (Bret's Valentino book lists 12 books for sources, some of which contradict his claims. Evelyn had pages and pages of citations...I believe about 30 pages.)
This only amped up with Terhune's lawsuit and the introduction of Zachary who started exposekatielynnbirchard.blogspot.com as Hala had exposed his (very real) criminal record (he claimed things like he was a mouseketeer and wrote hit songs for NSYNC and Craig David, things horribly untrue.) Between Jaydon and Bret and Terhune's lawsuit it was a constant barrage and Hala had a nervous breakdown. See in the US if someone sues you in civil court (meaning not a criminal matter) you are not given a free lawyer. Somewhere in Terhune's brain he decided Hala had a ton of money (why the two of us have no clue) even though she's so poor she runs out of food and was unable to work due to her arthritis. She didn't and still doesn't have a car even (which in the US, is major!) So Terhune could keep suing her, and Hala couldn't even reply properly because you have to write your own legal forms. If you look at the filings each filing is 30 pages of legal jargon. Hala didn't have a prayer. Terhune claimed things as crazy as breach of contract, for her failing to let him blackmail her (obviously she never signed or agreed to a contract). He also claimed despite calling her a fraud and a thief and all those things (Hala did not and still does not have a criminal record of any kind) that her calling him 'kooky' (a term she coined after watching Four Horsemen) warranted $100,000 and a right to gag her from ever reviewing him, his book or works again (I will bet you a thousand dollars Terhune will be here demanding this post go down and that I'm Hala. Watch!)
Jaydon began revealing her family members names and addresses, while Bret posted her and Evelyn's phone numbers and addresses. He also threatened to write about Evelyn's family as well as Hala's. Finally in July as I said he sent her death threats, saying if she went to court to defend herself from Terhune she would be murdered.
I guess my story is getting long (three years in the making) but from there it went to Terhune having his roommate assault Hala in a movie theatre, then getting all his friends to be a witness against her, despite the fact Hala could not physically attack anyone if she wanted to (she can't even open a bottle of water, I've seen her do it with her teeth! My little hick
!) In September 2010 she had no less than 4 court hearings twice a week that month alone: Terhune's suit, her restraining orders against Bret and Jaydon, and the dueling restraining orders between her and that roommate Stella something. Stella is an old hag of a woman, honeychild better watch out, I'll slap her with my pimp ring on if I ever see her again. I'll push Hala into a closet or something LOL!
Hala became violently ill. She was having bad panic attacks and severe yeast infections (which eww yeah but that comes from stress) every week. Finally she was hit with a very bad case of bronchitis and was unable to make her final court appearance. She won an order against Jaydon for 4 years, ordering him to take down exposekatielynnbirchard.blogspot.com but Terhune greased the police's palms (or if you will, dicks) and they refused to do anything about it. Google said the order had to be more specific, so its still there. She as I said lost the one against Bret for jurisdiction, Stella's was mediated until Stella decided to reissue it on Hala's birthday 9 months later, despite Hala not seeing her, speaking to or about her, or contacting her in that entire time (and as Hala feared another breakdown and didn't go, she lost automatically.)
Ready to be mad children? She lost automatically (default) to Terhune because she was unable to file anything the Judge would read. So she has a $100,000 bounty on her head and the order to not publish anything about him. He used that to remove Affairs Valentino from Amazon.com when Hala's LLC published it (she's still mad as hell about that, contending she personally had no hand in it as it was Evelyn's book and the LLC publishing it) and he used it to get a ton of her blog posts down, even ones that literally had nothing to do with him. So she took her blog down for awhile but recently put it back up, though she still had to censor it (by the way what was her contentious book review of his book? Something along the lines of 'not a bad book but not necessary as there are so many other Valentino books on the subject of his death.')
Bret has claimed at different times that Hala is a drug addict, anti semite (because a Jewish blog posted favorably reviews of her books), a thief, a fraud, a felon, a convict, on the run, a bank robber, a homophobe, a man, a hooker...it goes on and on. He also claimed she and Evelyn had written literally every bad review on all of his books ever...over 100 reviews dating back to 2000 (when Hala not only did not know Evelyn, but happened to be 12 and did not own a computer.) He claimed Evelyn was a coke addict, based on a search of some woman with a similar name in Texas being convicted for coke possession. Only problem? The woman is 20 years younger than Evelyn, has a different middle name, was married to someone Evelyn was never married to, and oh yeah Evelyn has never been to the state of Texas let alone lived there. I looked it up and could tell that, not Bretty boy! Go to the Valentino board on IMDB, his post from July is still there calling Evelyn a coke addict. IMDB has yet to f-ing remove it.
As it stands Terhune was vowing to throw Hala in jail, even though hers being a civil case that would be a hell of a ruling (example: no matter what they lobbed against Hala she could never have a misdemeanor or commit a felon, those are only criminal terms.) Hala filed 30 pages of evidence showing she had not violated her order, but the Judge didn't even read it. So Terhune lied and said he served her on the 30th of May 2011, despite the Hala was with me on the other side of the country on that day. But what can Hala do, the Judge won't read a damn thing she writes! And no lawyer will take the case (even though many of them are outraged at what has happened to her) unless she obtains $50,000. Forget free legal help like legal aid, none of it applies to civil cases in the US.
I haven't heard from Evelyn in a very long time and nor has Hala. We worry about her but last we heard she was somewhere near Europe, Morocco perhaps. Bret absolutely ruined her book (between Terhune, Bret, Donna Hill, Jaydon and a Valentino descendant Jeanine Villalbos they posted more than 10 fake bad reviews on her book claiming things like it had homophobic slurs on every page and 'fell apart'...look at goodreads or google, you'll see Bret's reviews still there) and Hala and I are as mad as hell for her as Evelyn deserved better.
Bret's favorite past time is posting fake reviews on Hala's books (after her novel she started a publishing company, 1921 PVG Publishing.) Hala told me that for one of her books Bret alone left 9 fake reviews. If you go look at Hala's books on Amazon you'll see positive reviews with something like 10 out of 20 likes...that's because these people insist Hala or her family members are writing them, because much like Hala and Evelyn must be the authors of every bad review on Bret's book, only Hala could be a positive reviewer of her own books *roll eyes*.
Google Hala and Evelyn's names, you can find it all. It absolutely makes me sick for my friends.