
Last year, beacon of Internet gossip blogging integrity TheDirty.com featured a post about Sarah Jones, a cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals. One of The Dirty’s readers valiantly exposed Sarah as a less-than-reputable lady of class, basically saying that she was a jock-chasing disease trap, and she took her fight to court to clear her good name. Sarah, who also spends her days working as a high school teacher, was awarded $11 million in damages in a triumphant decision in the face of careless slander. The only problem is that she’ll probably never get to deposit it.
You see, Sarah’s lawyer filed the lawsuit against the wrong company. Instead of suing Hooman “Nik Ritchie” Karamian and TheDirty.com, the lawsuit instead targeted TheDirt.com and Dirty World Entertainment Recordings. Whoops. Dirty World Entertainment is a Dublin, Georgia outfit dedicated to underground rap artists, like Trae Duice, according to their MySpace profile, which I checked after traveling back to 2005. TheDirty.com belongs to Dirty World LLC. Simple mistake. Simple $11 million mistake.
This whole blogosphere is out of order, The Last Angry Fan:
Seems Jones’ attorney royally screwed up—instead of TheDirty.com, the aforementioned owner, and site founder Hooman Karamian (aka Nik Ritchie) being sued, a similarly named website, TheDirt.com, and it’s parent company, Dirty World Entertainment Recordings, were the parties named in the lawsuit. The judge ordered Dirty World Entertainment Recordings to pay Jones the $11 million, but now that the error has been discovered, there’s a pretty good chance that the ruling will be dismissed.
Here’s the original post that started this whole mess:
THE DIRTY ARMY: Nik, here we have Sarah J, captain cheerleader of the playoff bound cinci bengals.. Most ppl see Sarah has a gorgeous cheerleader AND highschool teacher.. yes she’s also a teacher.. but what most of you don’t know is.. Her ex Nate.. cheated on her with over 50 girls in 4 yrs.. in that time he tested positive for Chlamydia Infection and Gonorrhea.. so im sure Sarah also has both.. whats worse is he brags about doing sarah in the gym.. football field.. her class room at the school she teaches at DIXIE Heights.
…this is Sara J, Cincinnati Bengal Cheerleader. She’s been spotted around town lately with the infamous Shayne Graham. She has also slept with every other Bengal Football player. This girl is a teacher too!!
I mean, how can something so spectacularly written and edited be so wrong and hateful? And if you can read that without doing a hot cocoa spit take on “infamous Shayne Graham” then you might be emotionally dead. Calling Graham infamous is like calling Anthony Fasano iconic.


I’d hit it…
Some non-detail oriented lawyer just won himself an 11 million dollar bill from his client and a disbarment.
Nice work, shyster.
For what it’s worth, she totally regretted sleeping with me the next morning.
$11 Million Defammation Lawsuit
So the extra “M” is for “mistake”?
Ummm … the individual Nik Ricthie was also named as a defendant … so … yeah … he LOST!!! Listening to the lawyer and Ms. Jones on WLW radio right now!
$11 Million for having something written about you? Is this a fucking joke? For $11 Million, I’d close my eyes and let every player on the Bengals cock-slap me once in the face, and allow full-color photos of it to be put on the internet. $11 Million dollars? No wonder Al Qaeda hates us.
Hey, I hope she gets every penny of it. And she buys brand new invisible clothes. We have the technology.
I’d split that gal like a log, if she weighed about 18 pounds more.
I actually attend the school she teaches at, and still had no idea this was going on (i knew she was a cheerleader of course but heard nothing of defamation lawsuits). Pretty crazy stuff, people who have been crippled for life have won less money in court than this, what a joke.
It takes real dedication to match your skin shade to a team color.
So she’s a big time slut with two STD’s who actually won’t get anything because her lawyer is a nitwit ?
Funny.
Defamation = having to wear a Bengals outfit.
Well she’s got an easy 11 million dollar malpractice suit against her attorney! Then maybe he can sue himself to recoup some of the 11 million!
wait, you can’t shit talk anyone online without getting sued? How does this site stay afloat then?
I smell bullshit. You’re telling me thedirt.com got hit with a 11 million dollar lawsuit by mistake, and didn’t even bother to defend themselves? I’m hardly a legal expert, but no fucking way this story is true.
^ “…but now that the error has been discovered, there’s a pretty good chance that the ruling will be dismissed.”
Or it was all just a big lie and you just uncovered the truth. /Shrug
According to most rules of civil procedure if the proper parties respond to a lawsuit and defend against it the defense of improper parties is waived. thedirty.com, etc is most likely still on the hook.
And maybe I should have payed attention, thedirty.com apparently never responded to the complaint. It will probably be dismissed.
Wow, Defamation me :D