3Rd Update: A judge in Connecticut on Thursday awarded the families the Sandy Hook shooting victims another 473 million in punitive damages to be paid by Inforwars founder Alex Jones. It comes after the jury awarded the families 965 million in compensatory damages after finding that Jones was liable for spreading lies about the 2012 school massacre, in which 26 people were murdered, including 20 children.
Jones has faced separate defamation, slander and emotional distress civil suits. Earlier this year, a jury in Texas awarded the family of victim Jesse Lewis a total of 49.3 million for finding that Jones’ claims that Sandy Hook was a “false flag” operation subjected the family to death threats and harassment.
2Nd Update, October 12 Pm: Parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims broke down in tears today as a jury in Waterbury, Ct, awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for defamation, slander and emotional distress against Infowars founder Alex Jones,...
Jones has faced separate defamation, slander and emotional distress civil suits. Earlier this year, a jury in Texas awarded the family of victim Jesse Lewis a total of 49.3 million for finding that Jones’ claims that Sandy Hook was a “false flag” operation subjected the family to death threats and harassment.
2Nd Update, October 12 Pm: Parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims broke down in tears today as a jury in Waterbury, Ct, awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for defamation, slander and emotional distress against Infowars founder Alex Jones,...
- 11/11/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Stephen Colbert is getting the last laugh when it comes to right-wing pundit Alex Jones’ conspiracy theories.
The “Late Night with Stephen Colbert” host opened his October 12 show saying he is “spiritually refreshed” following the news of Jones being ordered to pay 965 million in damages to parents of Sandy Hook victims after the 2012 elementary school shooting. Jones was found liable of violating Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act by perpetuating lies that the Sandy Hook massacre was staged to sell products on his website.
“Tonight I come to you with a spring in my step, with a song in my heart, emotionally and spiritually refreshed because you know how, as humans, we have to accept that sometimes bad things happen to good people? Well, by the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones,” Colbert said. “That’s a good thing, because thanks to a ruling by a Connecticut jury,...
The “Late Night with Stephen Colbert” host opened his October 12 show saying he is “spiritually refreshed” following the news of Jones being ordered to pay 965 million in damages to parents of Sandy Hook victims after the 2012 elementary school shooting. Jones was found liable of violating Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act by perpetuating lies that the Sandy Hook massacre was staged to sell products on his website.
“Tonight I come to you with a spring in my step, with a song in my heart, emotionally and spiritually refreshed because you know how, as humans, we have to accept that sometimes bad things happen to good people? Well, by the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones,” Colbert said. “That’s a good thing, because thanks to a ruling by a Connecticut jury,...
- 10/13/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a total of 965 million in damages to the plaintiffs of the defamation trial surrounding his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. The 15 plaintiffs of the case included the relatives of eight Sandy Hook victims, as well as a former FBI agent suing Jones.
A Connecticut jury reached a unanimous verdict Wednesday afternoon before the judge read aloud a detailed report of the various damages owed to each plaintiff by Jones and his media company, Free Speech Systems.
Jones was found liable of violating Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act by using lies about the Sandy Hook massacre to sell products on his website. Under that law, there is no limit on punitive damages.
Jones had already been found liable for defamation for spreading disinformation about the shooting, which killed 20 students and six faculty members in December 2012. The shooter, Adam Lanza, also killed his mother and himself.
A Connecticut jury reached a unanimous verdict Wednesday afternoon before the judge read aloud a detailed report of the various damages owed to each plaintiff by Jones and his media company, Free Speech Systems.
Jones was found liable of violating Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act by using lies about the Sandy Hook massacre to sell products on his website. Under that law, there is no limit on punitive damages.
Jones had already been found liable for defamation for spreading disinformation about the shooting, which killed 20 students and six faculty members in December 2012. The shooter, Adam Lanza, also killed his mother and himself.
- 10/12/2022
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
I began writing Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth in 2018, nearly six years after the 2012 shooting deaths of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. That year, the families of 10 Sandy Hook victims sued conspiracy theorist and broadcaster Alex Jones of Infowars for defamation in four lawsuits filed in Texas and Connecticut.
Jones spread lies about the crime and the Sandy Hook families for years, accusing them of acting in a false flag operation, an Obama administration pretext for seizing Americans’ firearms.
Jones spread lies about the crime and the Sandy Hook families for years, accusing them of acting in a false flag operation, an Obama administration pretext for seizing Americans’ firearms.
- 3/17/2022
- by Elizabeth Williamson
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: 04 Entertainment has acquired the rights to Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother’s Journey Of Hope and Forgiveness, a memoir by Scarlett Lewis, inspired by the loss of Lewis’ son in the Sandy Hook massacre, for development as a television movie. Law & Order alumna Elisabeth Röhm is attached to star, direct and executive produce.
Per producers, Nurturing Healing Love is inspired by the horrific loss of Lewis’ son, Jesse following an act of unimaginable violence at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Lewis experienced something that no parent should ever have to endure on a day that started just like any other. When a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Scarlett’s life changed forever. However, this isn’t a story about a massacre. It’s a story about love and survival. It’s about how to face the impossible, how to find courage when you think you have none,...
Per producers, Nurturing Healing Love is inspired by the horrific loss of Lewis’ son, Jesse following an act of unimaginable violence at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Lewis experienced something that no parent should ever have to endure on a day that started just like any other. When a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Scarlett’s life changed forever. However, this isn’t a story about a massacre. It’s a story about love and survival. It’s about how to face the impossible, how to find courage when you think you have none,...
- 12/28/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Leonard Pozner, the father of 6-year-old Noah Pozner, the youngest victim in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that killed 26 people in December 2012, has been awarded $450,000 in a defamation lawsuit against a conspiracy theorist who claimed the shooting never happened.
A Wisconsin jury has ruled that James Fetzer, a retired professor from the University of Minnesota Duluth, must pay Pozner $450,000 for accusing him of forging his son Noah’s death certificate. Fetzer is the coauthor of Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, which alleges that Pozner faked his son’s birth...
A Wisconsin jury has ruled that James Fetzer, a retired professor from the University of Minnesota Duluth, must pay Pozner $450,000 for accusing him of forging his son Noah’s death certificate. Fetzer is the coauthor of Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, which alleges that Pozner faked his son’s birth...
- 10/17/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Lewis always looked forward to the holidays, his dad says, no matter the occasion.
“Easter or Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, he just loved the holidays, one as much as the other” says Neil Heslin of his son. “But what makes this holiday season, Christmas, Thanksgiving to the New Year, harder is that’s when the tragedy occurred.”
It has been five years since Jesse, 6, was slaughtered with 25 others — including 19 other children — in a gunman’s rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
The time since the massacre has been an odd thing for Heslin, with at once...
“Easter or Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, he just loved the holidays, one as much as the other” says Neil Heslin of his son. “But what makes this holiday season, Christmas, Thanksgiving to the New Year, harder is that’s when the tragedy occurred.”
It has been five years since Jesse, 6, was slaughtered with 25 others — including 19 other children — in a gunman’s rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
The time since the massacre has been an odd thing for Heslin, with at once...
- 12/15/2017
- by KC Baker and Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
They should be tweens now, discovering algebra, middle school dances and the truth about Santa Claus.
But the 20 first graders of Sandy Hook Elementary School who — along with six of their school’s faculty — were lost in a mass shooting on Dec. 14, 2012, will be forever 6- and 7-year-olds, wiggling their first loose baby tooth and tracing smiley faces on frosty car windows.
“Not a day goes by, not even a minute, when I don’t think about Jesse and miss him,” says Scarlett Lewis of the 6-year-old son she lost that day. “The silence when we came back to the...
But the 20 first graders of Sandy Hook Elementary School who — along with six of their school’s faculty — were lost in a mass shooting on Dec. 14, 2012, will be forever 6- and 7-year-olds, wiggling their first loose baby tooth and tracing smiley faces on frosty car windows.
“Not a day goes by, not even a minute, when I don’t think about Jesse and miss him,” says Scarlett Lewis of the 6-year-old son she lost that day. “The silence when we came back to the...
- 12/13/2017
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall
- PEOPLE.com
It has been four years since a gunman walked into an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut and opened fire, killing 20 first-graders and six educators before turning the gun on himself.
The Sandy Hook school massacre — its violence and wrenching loss, its heartbreak — still looms large for the survivors, whose lives were irreparably changed.
But their lives did not stop. In the years since the shooting, the survivors have continued on: raising children, giving back and thinking, sometimes, of the future.
On the yearly anniversary of the shooting, on Wednesday, People spoke with three parents whose children were killed at Sandy Hook.
The Sandy Hook school massacre — its violence and wrenching loss, its heartbreak — still looms large for the survivors, whose lives were irreparably changed.
But their lives did not stop. In the years since the shooting, the survivors have continued on: raising children, giving back and thinking, sometimes, of the future.
On the yearly anniversary of the shooting, on Wednesday, People spoke with three parents whose children were killed at Sandy Hook.
- 12/14/2016
- by kcbakerpeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
Neil Heslin hadn't been back to Sandy Hook Elementary School since December 2012, when his 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, was killed along with 19 other first graders and six educators, in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. On Friday, Heslin, 55, returned to stand on "sacred ground" - the exact spot where the students and educators were killed. It's a grassy mound which now sits in the parking lot of the new Sandy Hook, rebuilt when the old school was demolished after the shooting. The $50 million, state-of-the-art facility in Newtown, Connecticut, sits further back on the property from where the original school was located.
- 8/1/2016
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
Neil Heslin hadn't been back to Sandy Hook Elementary School since December 2012, when his 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, was killed along with 19 other first graders and six educators, in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. On Friday, Heslin, 55, returned to stand on "sacred ground" - the exact spot where the students and educators were killed. It's a grassy mound which now sits in the parking lot of the new Sandy Hook, rebuilt when the old school was demolished after the shooting. The $50 million, state-of-the-art facility in Newtown, Connecticut, sits further back on the property from where the original school was located.
- 8/1/2016
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
On the chilly Friday morning of Dec. 14, 2012, Neil Heslin walked his 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut. Heslin watched as the first grader ambled down the hallway, carrying his trusty Disney Cars backpack - and hoping his class would make gingerbread houses that afternoon. "That was the last time I saw him," Heslin, 55, told People on Friday, looking back almost four years on the day his son died. Just after 9:30 a.m. local time, in what would become one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, authorities say 19-year-old gunman Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook,...
- 7/30/2016
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
On the chilly Friday morning of Dec. 14, 2012, Neil Heslin walked his 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut. Heslin watched as the first grader ambled down the hallway, carrying his trusty Disney Cars backpack - and hoping his class would make gingerbread houses that afternoon. "That was the last time I saw him," Heslin, 55, told People on Friday, looking back almost four years on the day his son died. Just after 9:30 a.m. local time, in what would become one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, authorities say 19-year-old gunman Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook,...
- 7/30/2016
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
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