Shelby Talcott on August 16, 2019
The former boss of the man who filed an assault lawsuit against CNN’s Don Lemon came forward as a witness to the alleged assault, according to Fox News.
Dustin Hice filed a lawsuit Sunday against Lemon, a CNN host, alleging that Lemon “rubbed his genitalia” and then shoved his fingers in Hice’s face at a Long Island, New York, bar in 2018. CNN said that Lemon “categorically denies these claims” in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday.
George Gounelas, Hice’s former manager at the bar where the alleged assault took place, told Fox News he witnessed the incident and supported Hice’s claims.
“He [Lemon] put his hands down his pants, inside his board shorts, grabbed his [genitals], and then came out with two fingers and, like, clipped Dustin’s nose up and down with two fingers asking ‘do you like pussy or dick?’” Gounelas alleged according to Fox News.
“If someone had done that to me, I probably would have punched him.”
This was after Lemon came up to Hice and allegedly said something “along the lines of, ‘Do you like me? Is that why you’re bothering me, because you wanna fuck me?” Fox News reported. Hice had previously offered to buy Lemon a drink.
Gounelas said that he laughed at the incident and made fun of Hice for being “gross,” but feels bad now, Fox News reported. He also said that other people probably saw the alleged assault.
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“The place was packed. I’m sure other people saw,” Gounelas said. “It was a known thing in the Hamptons, not like this quiet thing. Everybody knew Dustin and what happened to him. Every time we went out, every bartender offered him a Lemon drop shot, making fun of him. He got some shit for it.”
Hice first asked Lemon for $1.5 million in order to drop the lawsuit, a source close to Lemon said. Lemon did not agree and said he had done nothing wrong.
Lemon “was wearing a pair of shorts, sandals, and a t-shirt, put his hand down the front of his own shorts, and vigorously rubbed his genitalia, removed his hand and shoved his index and middle fingers in Plaintiff’s moustache and under Plaintiff’s nose,” the lawsuit reads.
“The plaintiff in this lawsuit has previously displayed a pattern of contempt for CNN on his social media accounts,” a CNN spokesperson said in a previous statement to the DCNF. “This claim follows his unsuccessful threats and demands for an exorbitant amount of money from Don Lemon. Don categorically denies these claims and this matter does not merit any further comment at this time.”
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Lemon did it. We all know he did.
Ah, Lemonade Boy showed his true Fairy rainbow colors. Truly one sick, sick, sick, disgusting dog. Well, it sounds like there will be no fairy bells for you in the future. But, I sure hear prison doors clanging shut, instead. But, hey, think of it. All you girlfriends will be waiting to meet you in prison.
Lemon you suck. When CNN first started they were a real news station with real reporters, now look at them…REALLY.
How will Wendy support him after this? LOL* She always takes up for the gays and when they do something wrong/bad/get caught she tries to defend them. Hope she doesn’t help lemon out!
Not a great week for CNN…
How will Wendy support him after this? LOL* She always takes up for the gays and when they do something wrong/bad/get caught she tries to defend them. Hope she doesn’t help lemon out!
Nothing will happen he has double immunity;
Liberal and black, we may never here anything about this ever again
Love to see that walking fountain of TDS put on the Sex-crimes list.
This little punk can sure dish it out. Le’ts see how well he takes it. The left likes to make a lot of noise….maybe a little noise by us will get him fired!
CNN to the rescue, Low Life Lemon will never be charged , Now if that were Trump or a Fox or Alex Jones reporter, they would be demanding justice , now you all know why CNN ratings are in the toilet despite what they want us to believe.. Don’t be fooled almost everyone knows what fake news is and CNN is the worst of the worst. This guy probably asked for money to avoid what is happening to him now. He knew, dirty CNN would use the media to make him the bad guy. Lemon you are a sleazy piece of work. Disgusting
And they say people are afraid, homophobic…..no people loath , are disgusted ….but they don’t fear. Fringe, freaks, allowed to walk among the normal. And there in lies the problem for acceptance, the mask of smiles.
So, this proves my point, there’s something weird going on with all these fruitcake anchors who think their untouchable. Lemonade boy is going to do it one to many times and end up leaving the bar in carved pieces. These degenerates, at times, take risks with their aggressive, sick behavior. The fastest way to the cemetery is make a pass at the wrong hetero. Lemonade boy is going to run into one of them someday.
If he had done that to me………I’m afraid I’d be sitting in jail right now for rearranging his face. What a sicko.
And Lemon with this behavior stays with CNN ???? And CNN likes it ???? And they like Epstein too ???
CNN is a fake news organization run by “homos”.
Don Lemon is a disgusting person and thinks he can do what he wants
CNN is nothing more than a bunch of liberal low life’s.
just look at those lip in the lead in and that is all you have to know. queeeeerrrr!!
CNN will probably say its Trumps fault somehow. lol
Lemon should be register as a sexual molester.
What a DISGUSTING thing to do. I never liked any of the CNN crew- they’re just creepy, but that’s really filthy. What is the matter with those people? They call us deplorables, but they’re friggin DEFECTIVE.
Karma
Some friend to laugh at his friend being assaulted (and in public no less). Glad the friend finally came to his senses. One would have to be seriously desperate to want to “do” Don the sour LEMON.
Crammed fish hooks up his butt……
LMAO
are you kidding? Lennon would have loved it.
Dustin should have bent lemon over and rammed his behind with a cue stick…!
Dumb Donnie is, along with Kooky Coop, Crazy Cuomo, And Stupid Stelter, the most untruthful folks on Cable…..disgusting.
Let’s invoke the Demonrat’s motto–guilty already until he can prove innocence.
Their tactics employed during Kavanaugh’s hearing have boomeranged into a KARMA!!
I bet you-the Demons will again cry RACIST for this suit. Hypocricy in the nth square!!
Lucky Lemon= If it were my son he did that to ,out back with my louieville sluggah – Don bend over ,and out of his mouth it comes
Have no fear cnn will do nothing, except back the low life. He should be fired. I hope the take him for everything lemon has.
Couldn’t happen to a more hated newsreader. I bet his boyfriend’s pissed!
“Me Too” It (Lemon) had a lot to say in the days when most had to quit or take all of the comments. He isn’t the victim but he is GUILTY. Fire him now he never was anyone special but an odd man out along with several others at CNN.
no sh~t, he came out about two or three years ago.
He hates whites but has a white boyfriend.
Go figure.
He hates whites but has a white boyfriend. Go figure.
Lemon always seemed a little light in the loafers.
squeeze that Lemon until he explodes
Well, if he’s gay, he is a member of a lib-designated “victim group,” and they CAN’T fire him! :D
Are you kidding, they will probably give him a raise.
How many here think that CNN will fire him over these accusations?
Soooooooo … Lemon doesn’t want to talk about it now? What a p.o.s.
What have we learned here? Stay out of leather bars or go home with a dirty Sanchez.