‘It’s Guilty Until Proven Innocent’: Portnoy Blasts ‘Woke Cancel Culture,’ Denies Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, ripped allegations he choked and filmed women without consent during sex.

Portnoy appeared on Fox News Monday night for an interview with host Tucker Carlson. The sports media mogul slammed Business Insider over a report the outlet published last week detailing several accusations of sexual misconduct against the Portnoy.

“They won’t event discuss it. They print and run. They print and run. It’s disgusting and it’s character assassination,” Portnoy said. “My lawyers have said just let it go, it’ll go away. I’m not going to let it go because this is, this behavior, I’ve never been attacked like this. I’ve been attacked for two decades, but never escalated to this length and, frankly, it’s scary. I didn’t know that you could do this.”

Reminder I will go on any show that invites me on. I want to scream from the rooftops about what is happening here. This shouldn’t be political. Everybody should be outraged pic.twitter.com/MbGIk0SZGA

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) November 9, 2021

Business Insider published a report last week detailing two women’s accusations that Portnoy choked and hurt them during a consensual hook-up. Portnoy, who claims to have identified the women referenced in the article, pushed back against the allegations in a video posted online on Thursday.

The women making the allegations, both college-aged, did not consent to Business Insider using their real names, claiming to fear retribution from Portnoy. The first allegation, brought by a woman identified as Madison, said that Portnoy flew her to his house for a visit lasting a few days. During her time with the Barstool founder, she said they had sex once and the experience left her feeling like a “a human sex doll.”

Texting a friend two days after the episode, she told a friend that Portnoy was rough and compared the feeling of sex that night to rape. She said she screamed in pain for Portnoy to stop, but he did not. She slept on the couch for the rest of her stay, she said.

In a video posted to Twitter on Thursday, Portnoy said that her version of events was “not true.” Portnoy was able to identify the girl because she said she slept on the couch for the rest of her visit. That was one of the few details about her story that Portnoy said was accurate.

“I can say this unequivocally, she came, she flew, we did have pizza, hung out, hooked

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