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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 12:36 PM
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Publicists for octuplets' mother quit over death threats
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-octuplets15-2009feb15,0,4935931.story

Two Brentwood publicists said they dropped octuplets mom Nadya Suleman as a client Saturday because they have received a slew of death threats.

Suleman, a 33-year-old Whittier resident, was unmarried, unemployed and already had six children using a sperm donor when she gave birth to eight children from the same donor Jan. 26 at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower.

Joann Killeen, president of Killeen Furtney Group, said she and husband Mike Furtney decided to drop Suleman early Saturday. Soon after the births, the couple began representing Suleman for free, and almost immediately started receiving threatening e-mails and phone calls from people enraged over the octuplets saga, she said.

"They hope I die, they hope my business goes under, they want to rip her uterus out," Killeen said. "They say I should be anesthetized and put down like a dog."

Killeen said she and Suleman felt so threatened that last week they stayed at an undisclosed "secure location" for a few days before returning home. The babies are still being treated at the hospital, Killeen said.

After creating a website for Suleman on Tuesday, Killeen said, she received 55,000 e-mails, most of them negative, and she has stacks of angry mail.


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Personally I think they probably quit because they realized they weren't getting any money out of this idiot. The Octomom is a parasite who thinks the world owes her something. Even when she is given money, like the Workmans Comp she received, instead of taking care of the children she has she uses it to pay for expensive plastic surgury and bringing in more kids she can't care for.
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Dangerously Amused Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 12:40 PM
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1. When exploitation gets ugly...

lol!
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 12:40 PM
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2. Spot on analysis of octomom
Check your pm, sissie-in-law.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 12:41 PM
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3. I disagree
Those sound like pretty horrible things to say to someone, and while I don't like what this woman has done, the viciousness of the attacks upon her frighten and disturb the hell out of me.
Say what you like, they remind me of the things angry anti-choice people do to abortion doctors.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:06 PM
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10. You're right about the violent acts however, publicity was a lost cause for this woman
cut her off before you sink too much into debt. There are just some people who no matter what you do you can't make them look loveable.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 12:43 PM
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4. She was out buying MAC cosmetics yesterday.
This is a woman on the verge of losing her home, with 14 kids to support, and she's out buying some of the most expensive makeup on the market.

Selfish and immature (I don't buy that she's got mental problems).
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 12:45 PM
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5. Personally, I think the woman's nuts, but not mentally ill
Like 90% of the people in my family are fucking nuts, but they're not mentally ill.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 12:46 PM
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7. i think she just really liked the attention she got for being pregnant and then after the births
she loses interest.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:05 PM
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9. No she's mentality ill - she's no different then those animal horders you see on Animal Cops
Those horders think they are doing something heroic by keeping 20+ cats and/or dogs in their house when all they are doing is creating a disgusting nightmare that is not feasible for any animal or human to live in.

They have shown pictures of the house before without the 8 kids, where do you suspect 8 more children will in a very overcrowded 3 bedroom house. She hords kids the way a crazy cat lady hords cats. And the biggest problem with the hording is that the animals never get the proper car they need for a healthy life. The animals never get fixed so they keep breeding and of course the costs for a vet is too much so the animals live in their own feces and are infected with god knows what.

And if this woman was out buying MAC makup - well a typical powder compact from MAC runs about $30 - which could buy diapers to last these octuplets for a few hours.

She has a mental illness.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 12:45 PM
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6. Personally, I think the woman's nuts, but not mentally ill
Like 90% of the people in my family are fucking nuts, but they're not mentally ill.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 12:57 PM
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8. This woman will still make millions off this.
It's a guarantee. There is no such thing as bad publicity.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:10 PM
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11. this is one of those stories where you are tired of hearing
and seeing this on the news every day.........

:woohoo: :hi: :hug:
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Dangerously Amused Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:16 PM
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12. I'm sure all those anti-choice people are opening their wallets and giving with joy.


What? They're the ones complaining the loudest about "supporting other people's children"? B...b... but all life is precious!!1!! This is is what they wanted! I don't understand! :cry:
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:17 PM
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13. The house she lives in,her mom's,is $23,000 behind in mortgage payments.
This just gets stranger.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:38 PM
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14. But the daughter was able to afford plastic surgery
annoying as hell
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:46 PM
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17. She could afford that *and* two rounds of IVF.
:wtf:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:41 PM
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15. She should hook up with Joe the Plumber.
Hollywood, I have your new reality show...yoohoo...
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:46 PM
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16. OMG that post gets you a heart
:woohoo:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:51 PM
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18. You are forgetting how much I despise Led Zeppelin.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 01:58 PM
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19. I'm not sure I'd totally believe anything a "publicist" has to say.
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