Gordon Bowen's Former Secretary Threatens to Sue IRA
We Didn't Get Her Permission To Reprint What She Said
Michele Avantario, the former secretary of alleged LDS Church of Satan Punisher Gordon Bowen, sent an email to IRA this weekend in which she stated that we had defamed her and should immediately retract The Lives and Lies of Gordon Bowen. Ms. Avantario seems confused about the definition of defamation, as she angrily insisted that she had not been consulted about the article, nor had she provided any consent to use information about her or her name in the article. She claimed that the statements published in the article had caused harm to her professional and personal reputation.
Defamation is a the publication of a false statement purporting to be fact to a third person, with fault amounting to at least negligence, and damages in the form of harm to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement. The court records from Gordon Bowen’s divorce show that Michele Avantario communicated the following to Barbara Timothy:
-Her encounter with a teenage boy in the work cafeteria, during which the boy informed her that Gordon Bowen had promised to pay to fix his teeth if the boy would stay with Bowen in his apartment.
-Her encounters with the children of Lincoln Kevin and Khaliel Kelly, during which the children had begged her to return to their parents’ apartment to watch them instead of leaving her alone with Gordon Bowen. Despite this, Avantario stated that she had left the children with Bowen on a second occasion.
-Her fear that the police would find the bodies of boys buried underneath Gordon Bowen’s residence.
There is no legal obligation to obtain the consent of someone who makes allegations against another individual when it comes to reprinting those allegations in the course of journalism. Reprinting Michele Avantario’s statements to Barbara Timothy during her divorce from Gordon Bowen is not defamatory, nor is it actionable under any civil statute. The statements in question were obtained from a publicly accessible archive, originating from the one source in Bowen’s divorce who did not sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Tellingly, Ms. Avantario has never sued anyone else involved in the Bowen divorce. She has been informed that IRA looks forward to seeing her in court, should she be so bold as to actually file a defamation lawsuit. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation, and the opportunity to depose Michele Avantario and others involved in the affairs of Gordon Bowen is something IRA has long anticipated.
Perhaps Ms. Avantario’s time as a casting director and author has afforded her a sterling professional reputation that she feels should erase her association with the likes of Gordon Bowen, an alleged pedophile, sexual sadist, rapist, murderer, and admitted expert in secret codes and combinations-otherwise known as Satanism within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Gordon Bowen is certainly a deviant homosexual man whose proclivities were attested to by multiple witnesses during his divorce, who detailed his fondness for homeless men, teenage boys, children, gay male escorts, gay pornography websites, and an inability to restrain his urges that extended to dialing up gay escorts while he was watching his young daughter as his wife recuperated from in vitro fertilization.
These proclivities resulted in Gordon Bowen’s 2003 excommunication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which begs the question: why do multiple Quorum of the Twelve members still socialize with Gordon Bowen, and why did M. Russell Ballard steer millions in church funds to Gordon Bowen for the production of a since-shelved film on Jesus Christ? Why did the Church allegedly retain Gordon Bowen to draft its public broadside against Tim Ballard?
Should Michele Avantario wish to follow through on her threats of litigation, she would be demonstrated far more chutzpah than Gordon Bowen himself, who has yet to threaten IRA with litigation over our voluminous reporting on his alleged and proven misdeeds. In fact, no one named in the Hamblin Victims’ Statements has threatened IRA with litigation, because the statements appear to be truthful. Hundreds of alleged victims and witnesses have come forward over the past two years to name many of the same perpetrators found in the Hamblin case as their abusers.
Instead, those who have been accused have resorted to indirect confrontations with IRA, or to smears that are most assuredly defamatory. For example, alleged LDS Church of Satan Spring City Punisher Joe Bennion stated to a film crew that he knew my identity, and that I had been excommunicated from the Church. I have never been before a church court, and I have never been excommunicated or disciplined in any way by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, because they have no grounds to discipline me.
Caleb Proulx, an attorney in Utah who apparently was romantically involved with Zina Bennion, made the rounds after my appearance on Jason Preston’s We Are The People podcast to insist that I was defaming innocent people. He stated that he knew some of the accused, and that they were innocent of all allegations. He apparently failed to disclose his personal relationship with Joe and Lee Bennion’s daughter while he was making the rounds lambasting the credibility and motives of IRA.
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As I have said before, the alleged members of the LDS Church of Satan have failed to follow through with a single threat in a year and five months because they have no legal grounds do so. I am not a compromised individual who partook in their activities, which allegedly include child rape, murder, cannibalism, the production and distribution of child pornography, and ritual abuse extending to the satanic inversion of LDS ordinances which are performed in members’ homes. I am also not a young child from a named family within the LDS Church of Satan, and therefore I am not subject to their peculiar and criminal proclivities.
Should anyone from the Hamblin Victims’ Statements wish to see me in court, they are welcome to file spurious litigation in order to do so. If Michele Avantario wishes to see me in court, she can do the same. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation, and civil litigation will afford me the opportunity to vigorously and thoroughly explore these allegations in civil discovery and through countersuits. It will also provide any victim who wants the opportunity the ability to testify on the record about the abuse they suffered at the hands of the individuals named in the Hamblin Victims Statements who are silly enough to try a civil lawsuit.
Who’s going to go first? I’ll be waiting.
Loving that you doubled down! 😂 LFG!!!
Boom! The truth prevails and will prevail, through Jesus Christ and His will and power in this unprecedented situation! Thank you for facing down the demons in human form!