- After 5,400 dead NPCs and a 267,000-gold bounty, Skyrim player claims that they’ve “killed everything that was killable” Yahoo Entertainment
- Skyrim Player Accrues 267,000 Bounty Murdering 5,000 NPCs in Quest to Kill ‘Everything Killable’ IGN
- Skyrim player kills every NPC in the game, over 5,000, just to see what happens GAMINGbible
- Gamer commits genocide on Skyrim, saying they’ve ‘killed everything that was killable’ TweakTown
- Skyrim Fan Kills Literally Everything in The Most Violent Possible Playthrough GameRant
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Streamer Offering $20,000 Bounty For Finishing Halo 2 Deathless
Streamer Charlie ‘Cr1tikal’ White has a challenge for you, Halo fans: all you need to do is beat Halo 2 at a certain difficulty level (without dying) and he’ll give you $20,000. The thing is, that custom difficulty level is one that makes the game seemingly impossible.
Via PCGamesN, that difficulty level is known as “LASO”, or Legendary All Skulls On, a fan-made set of conditions which not only sets the game at Legendary, but then introduces a range of modifiers set by the game’s skulls, which can include stuff like giving more enemies more health, or putting less ammo in your clips.
It is a brutal way to play the game. Here’s a Reddit thread from a few years ago where someone boasts of having completed Halo 2 LASO, albeit with the caveat that “my deaths measured in the triple digits”. Cr1tikal’s challenge involves not dying even once.
Describing this as his “Willy Wonka moment”, Cr1tikal initially offered a reward of $5,000, but has since bumped that up by $15,000, because it’s a task he believes is “the hardest challenge that currently exists in all gaming”. I don’t know about that, but it certainly sounds tough: in the 18 years since Halo 2’s release no player has ever been able to prove they’ve completed a deathless LASO run (well, one has, but I’ll get to that). It’s so hard that Cr1tikal says after watching people trying to take his money for the past three weeks, “99%” of players couldn’t get past the game’s first level, and most—himself included—can’t even get past the first couple of rooms.
The rules are: the run has to streamed live, on either Twitch or YouTube. You must be playing Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty with 13 of the game’s skulls on, but the one known as “Envy” turned off. That’s because one player has claimed to have completed a LASO run without dying previously, but they were using this skull, which replaces Master Chief’s flashlight with the ability to become invisible via active camouflage. Which isn’t making things harder at all, so disabling it sounds entirely fair given the point of this challenge.
Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Gets $200 Million Bounty for Tip on Libor Misconduct
A whistleblower whose information helped U.S. and U.K. regulators investigate manipulation of global interest-rate benchmarks by
Deutsche Bank AG
was awarded nearly $200 million for assisting the probe, according to people familiar with the matter.
The payout is the largest ever by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which along with the Justice Department and U.K. Financial Conduct Authority settled enforcement actions against Deutsche Bank in 2015.
The CFTC’s announcement didn’t name the bank or the case, but the reward is related to the bank’s manipulation of the London interbank offered rate and similar widely used benchmarks, the people said.
The whistleblower’s application for an award was initially denied by the CFTC, but the U.S. derivatives regulator ultimately decided that the individual’s information was helpful after the whistleblower submitted a request for reconsideration.
“We’re very happy that the CFTC was able to reverse an earlier decision and turn around their thinking,”
David Kovel,
a managing partner at law firm Kirby McInerney LLP who represents the whistleblower. “It says a lot about the people there that they don’t feel forced to stick with the wrong decision given the amount that’s at stake.”
The Wall Street Journal previously reported that the former executive had provided information that helped CFTC and Justice Department investigations that led to roughly $2.5 billion in settlements with Deutsche Bank in 2015, including $800 million with the CFTC. They alleged that the bank manipulated Libor, a benchmark interest rate used to set short-term loans for global banks which traders and other bank employees could manipulate because it was based on oral submissions and not on actual transactions.
“The kind of information he provided was of the sort that was very hard to get if you don’t know where to look in a big financial organization,” Mr. Kovel said.
Rigging Libor was profitable for banks and other market participants because billions of dollars worth of derivatives known as swaps were priced off movements in the benchmark.
A spokesman for Deutsche Bank declined to comment.
The prospect of such a large payout pushed the CFTC whistleblower program into turmoil this year, as agency leaders contended there was no mechanism to pay the former bank executive and other applicants and keep funding the program. The agency averted a crisis after President Biden signed a bill in July to fund the program.
The CFTC investigation had already started by the time the whistleblower approached a separate agency, officials wrote in an order making the award. But the information proved valuable in interviews that authorities conducted as they expanded their probe, according to the order.
Dawn Stump,
a Republican commissioner on the CFTC, said in a statement that she disagreed with basing the award partly on a fine levied by a foreign regulator. Like the CFTC’s announcement, Ms. Stump didn’t name the bank or the underlying case in her statement.
Ms. Stump wrote that the CFTC has never before given an award to a tipster based on an overseas regulator’s enforcement action.
“I believe we need to take an especially close look at cases where a whistleblower asks the commission to tap its limited Customer Protection Fund for an award relating to an action by a foreign futures authority to address harm outside the United States,” Ms. Stump wrote.
Thursday’s award is the largest issued to a single person since the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law created the programs to help avoid another massive fraud like Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
The Securities and Exchange Commission last year issued its biggest whistleblower payment ever of about $114 million to a tipster.
“It’s showing that the CFTC program, like the SEC program, over the past 10 years, has really reached its maturity,” said
Mary Inman,
an attorney representing whistleblowers at law firm Constantine Cannon LLP.
Corrections & Amplifications
The Securities and Exchange Commission last year issued its biggest whistleblower payment ever of about $114 million to a tipster. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the payment was to two tipsters. (Corrected on Oct. 21)
Write to Mengqi Sun at mengqi.sun@wsj.com and Dave Michaels at dave.michaels@wsj.com
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Netflix’s latest live-action Cowboy Bebop teaser makes bounty hunting look easy
It’s still not a full trailer, but Netflix showed off the best look yet at its upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation in a new teaser to celebrate the one-month countdown to the show’s debut on November 19th.
Like the previous teasers for the show (which so far have included stills and the opening credits), the latest video, titled “Cowboy Bebop: The Lost Session,” isn’t actually made up of footage from the show but does show off the key trio of Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) in action as they hunt down a bounty, get some noodles, and fight through an army of thugs.
That said, it’s a very fun teaser, shot with kinetic, color-coded shifting frames that bounce between Spike, Jet, and Faye as they bicker and brawl back and forth. Translating anime to live-action is always a trickier proposition, but hopefully, the actual show can manage a similar energy when it comes to Netflix next month.
It is still somewhat concerning that Netflix still hasn’t shown off any actual footage of Cowboy Bebop yet, but the official Cowboy Bebop twitter account has promised that the real trailer will be out next week. In the meantime, the classic anime starts streaming on Netflix on October 21st, so you’ll be able to catch up in time for the remake next month.
Update October 19th, 8:15am: Added additional information on the main trailer release.
Texas House finalizes gnarled U.S. House map that gives GOP bounty from decade of Hispanic growth
Updated at 2:30 a.m. Sunday
WASHINGTON — The Texas House approved a congressional election plan late Saturday that would lock in an overwhelming Republican edge for a decade — despite a slipping share of the population and the fact that Texas’ two new seats stem from growth in the Hispanic population.
The gerrymandered map allocates 24 of 38 U.S. House seats to the GOP, a generous ratio given that Republicans collected just 53% of votes in congressional races last November.
“They would like to erase African Americans and Hispanics from the state by not allowing them to have access to vote for a person of their choice,” said Rep. Yvonne Davis, a Dallas Democrat, accusing Republicans of “racism” and “racist gerrymandering.”
The state Senate had already approved the map, which has implications far beyond Texas as Republicans try to topple Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the 2022 midterms.
The map is guaranteed to invite litigation on grounds that it leaves minority clout stagnant, even though 95% of the 4 million new Texans the Census Bureau counted in 2020 are people of color, and half are Hispanic.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area gets no additional representation, despite leading the state in growth. And it remains the largest region in the country without a Hispanic-majority district, despite a Hispanic population of 1.7 million – nearly as many people as the entire state of New Mexico, and enough to fill two congressional districts.
Rep. Rafael Anchia, a Dallas Democrat who chairs the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, called that “the elephant in the room, the big glaring omission….You really have to try hard to deny Latinos in North Texas the ability to elect the candidate of their choice.”
The House approved the map just before midnight on a party line 80-61 vote, after making minor tweaks that require House and Senate negotiators to meet Sunday and finalize the plan.
The latest census found that nearly 1.1 million people moved into Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties since 2010.
That’s more than double the growth in Travis, Williamson and Hays counties, which share one of the two new seats.
Democrats have the edge in that Austin-area district. Republicans will control a new Houston-area seat.
The demographics in both new districts favor white candidates.
Hispanic voters would control seven Texas congressional districts going forward — down from eight in the current 36-seat map.
“It is another step in our state’s shameful history to discriminate against Black, Latino and [other minority] citizens by passing a racially gerrymandered map,” said Rep. Chris Turner of Grand Prairie, chair of the House Democratic caucus. “There’s a lot of problems with this map.”
House Redistricting Chair Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi, defended the plan, saying it complies fully with federal law while keeping together political subdivisions and communities of interest and protecting incumbents.
“Yes there’s been a large percentage of growth,” he said.
The League of United Latin American Citizens demanded new districts in South Texas and Dallas-Fort Worth to fairly reflect growth patterns, asserting that without such districts, the map amounts to overt racial discrimination.
“This plan is a blatant partisan power grab,” said Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas. “A fairly drawn map would have given more opportunity districts to the minority communities responsible for all of our population growth.”
Growth in Texas outpaced most of the country, and no other state gained as much in this year’s reapportionment of the 435 U.S. House seats. California slipped but remains the biggest state.
The third special legislative session Gov. Greg Abbott has called this year ends Tuesday. Lawmakers worked frantically to finalize maps, and have already sent Abbott plans for the state House and Senate. The State Board of Education map is still pending.
Democrats complained that Hunter’s committee held a hearing on the Senate-approved congressional plan Wednesday with just 12 hours’ notice. More than 80 people testified. All voiced opposition.
To avoid the risk of delay beyond Tuesday, the House panel approved the Senate’s plan without changes, opting to hash out potential tweaks during a floor debate that began late Saturday afternoon and ended moments before midnight.
The GOP majority shot down one Democratic request after another, offering little rhetorical pushback as Democrats took advantage of the floor debate to air their grievances.
“You think it’s OK for Latinos to have zero representation in the United States House of Representatives in a region that has 1.7 million Latinos. Are you saying that that’s OK?” Rep. Victoria Neave, a Dallas Democrat, challenged Republicans at one point.
The new map carves up Dallas County into six congressional districts, represented by three Democrats and three Republicans.
It packs non-white people into districts represented by three Black lawmakers — Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson and Colin Allred of Dallas and Marc Veasey of Fort Worth — which keeps them out of neighboring districts held by Republicans.
Allred’s new district is just 36% Anglo. Johnson’s is 18%, and Veasey’s is 13%.
At the same time, some minority residents are shifted into more rural districts where white Republicans dominate, diluting their clout.
Veasey’s gnarled and jagged 33rd District hangs together at one point by a sinew of territory just three-tenths of a mile wide in Grand Prairie. It’s interlocked with District 6, itself connected by a strip in Arlington just four-tenths of a mile wide.
“You can see how the lines of the districts in North Texas snake into ridiculous shapes in order to undermine the growth of minority voters across Tarrant and Dallas counties. The borders of District 33 and District 6 are particularly offensive,” said Turner.
District 6 favors GOP Rep. Jake Ellzey of Waxahachie, who took office July 30 after a special election to replace Ron Wright, the first member of Congress to die in office of COVID-19.
White voters will comprise just under half the voting-age population, with a large number of Black and Hispanic voters from Northwest Dallas County combined with rural voters as far away as Palestine and Rusk in East Texas.
GOP mapmakers used the decennial process to fortify a number of their incumbents.
Freshman Rep. Beth Van Duyne, a former mayor of Irving, won last fall by just 4,700 votes, a 2-point margin. The new map turns the 24th District from a 52-47 Joe Biden district to a 55-43 Donald Trump district.
In one egregious example of cherry-picking voters to dilute Democratic voters’ impact, the city of Denton is shifted into a district that gave Trump a 60-point margin, connecting the Democratic stronghold to the far reaches of the panhandle, 400 miles away.
Overall, the new map expands the number of one-party strongholds — making Republican seats more Republican, and Democratic seats more Democratic.
Republicans will control 23 seats by more than a 10-point margin, up from 14 seats on the current map; Democrats get 13 such seats, three more than they’ve had in recent elections.
The 5th District, held by Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Terrell, one of the most conservative members of the House, would include a quarter-million Black and Hispanic residents of Dallas County — along with enough voters from rural counties to the east to leave a 52.5% Anglo voting majority.
Hispanic advocacy groups have blasted the map as discriminatory and unconstitutional.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in the 2013 Shelby vs. Holder ruling, states have been able to alter electoral districts without seeking approval from the Justice Department. Lawsuits after changes are adopted take years to work through courts.
The map leaves two competitive districts — one in South Texas, held by Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, the other stretching from San Antonio to El Paso, held by Rep. Tony Gonzalez, R-San Antonio.
In Collin County, GOP Rep. Van Taylor of Plano gets reinforcements in the 3rd District, which after years of Democratic gains remained in the Trump column by a single percentage point.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Austin, would likewise end up with a higher concentration of Republicans, and the 25th District sheds Austin and takes in Parker County in North Texas.
The new map pits two Democratic incumbents from Houston against each other, shifting Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee into Rep. Al Green’s district.
There’s a neighboring Democratic district with no incumbent that Republicans anticipate she would run in. But Democrats were furious, and tried unsuccessfully to tweak the map Saturday to eliminate the pairing.
Jackson Lee’s district was once represented by Barbara Jordan.
“That district has been dismantled, removing two universities, downtown and the historic Third Ward,” Turner complained.
Political writer Gromer Jeffers Jr.contributed to this report.
Brian Laundrie’s mom called cops on Dog the Bounty Hunter, audio reveals
Brian Laundrie’s mother called the cops on Dog the Bounty Hunter — even though the fugitive chaser is helping in the search to find her missing son, new audio reveals.
Dispatch audio has emerged of Roberta Laundrie siccing the cops on TV personality Duane Lee Chapman, who was seen Saturday banging on the door of the North Port, Florida, home where Brian and his girlfriend Gabby Petito lived, Fox News reported.
“The female, Roberta… called in on 911,” a dispatcher is heard saying, adding that the caller “referenced a situation with the male,” according to the network.
Chapman told Fox News that he had spoken with police before he arrived at the Laundrie home.
“It’s a shame they wouldn’t speak with us. The police said we were welcome to knock on the door so we did. I wanted to tell the Laundries that our goal is to find Brian and bring him in alive,” he told the outlet Monday.
Police spokesman Josh Taylor told Fox News that they handled the 911 call like the agency would have all others.
“We’ve been called to the house numerous times for all sorts of issues: media, protesters, celebrity searchers,” he said. “It’s not something normal. If the family calls and is concerned, we will respond like we would for anyone.”
Chapman, 68, told The Post that he’s received hundreds of tips on his 833-TELLDOG hotline – many of which point to Laundrie being somewhere along the Appalachian trail where he was known to camp for months at a time.
Laundrie, 23, vanished Sept. 14, three days after Petito’s family reported her missing. Her body was found Sept. 19 at a campground in Wyoming’s Bridger Teton National Forest, not far from Grand Teton National Park.
The FBI has issued an arrest warrant for Laundrie, based on his suspected use of Petito’s debit card on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1, presumably as he drove back to Florida in Petito’s van.
He is the only person of interest in the death of Petito that the FBI has named.
Laundrie’s parents have denied any knowledge of or involvement in his disappearance.
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King’s Bounty 2 Review – IGN
King’s Bounty 2 is a tired sigh of a Euro-style tactical RPG. Not the kind you make when you’re frustrated or relieved, though; it’s more like when you sit down after walking up a long flight of stairs and feel sort of distantly content. For the most part, it’s fine. The tactical combat is actually pretty enjoyable, the music is great, and the world looks nice. But it feels janky and unpolished in a lot of technical aspects, and the mediocre storytelling rarely got me motivated to see how the next step of the adventure might unfold.
In a lot of ways, this long-overdue sequel is comparable to RPGs like ELEX or The Technomancer: a mid-budget contender that really wants to be something like a blockbuster BioWare game but doesn’t really have the resources or the expertise to get there. King’s Bounty 2 is a bit less ambitious than either of those other two, and probably the better for it – it doesn’t try to do anything wild and sticks to the fundamentals. But from the general glitchiness of the camera to the phoned-in story cutscenes, I still got the sense that the developers at 1C bit off more than they could chew.
The voice acting, for one thing, is very inconsistent. The sorceress Katherine, one of the three playable characters and the one I spent the most time with over 40 hours of adventuring, has a pleasing timbre with a haughty, aristocratic delivery. But some of the random NPCs scattered throughout the world sound more like they’d just grabbed someone who hadn’t been in front of a mic before and handed them a script, if the distractingly bad performances are anything to go by. And those moments detract from the worldbuilding.
Characters are introduced very abruptly, just like everything else in the story, and you’re sent ping-ponging from one clue to the next with little room for anybody to develop relationships with others, much less as individuals. There were a couple of surprises that felt worth the wait, but in general the motives of the various leaders and factions were always presented with so little nuance that nothing that happened left much of an emotional impact. It feels very by-the-numbers, like all of the heart went into building out the setting and very little into the cast and story.
The fantasy world 1C has put together is pretty slick for a project this size.
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That’s a bit of a shame, because the fantasy world 1C has put together is pretty slick for a project this size. The graphics are a bit dated-looking, especially with the lighting, creature animations, and some of the faces. Compared to even a six-year-old game like The Witcher 3, it comes up short. However, they’ve gone with an art direction that’s just stylized enough it didn’t bother me all that often. Zooming in on individual units reveals a lot of depth and detail, especially on some of the bigger monsters, and I particularly liked how increasing a squad’s veterancy would spiff up their equipment visually as well. While large portions of the map can feel a bit samey – a lot of it is just hilly green woodland – it’s also packed with little lore tidbits like discarded notes and history tomes that were entertaining to paw through.
If only getting around weren’t such a huge pain. Your default run speed is just slow enough to be thoroughly irritating from the first moment to the last, and for some reason there’s a walk button but no sprint. Why anyone would want to move through this sprawling country even slower than you move by default sure beats me. You do get a horse fairly early on, but it has clunky controls, it’s restricted to walking speed in larger towns, and it has a lengthy animation to get on and off that freezes you in place. That never ceased to be frustrating.
What saves King’s Bounty 2’s bacon is the turn-based tactical battles.
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What saves King’s Bounty 2’s bacon is the turn-based tactical battles. Granted, there are some unpleasant difficulty spikes, especially if you’re playing a magic build in the early game. But they’re actually pretty good fights once you get into the swing of things. You take an army of up to five units into each one, with dozens of choices from human knights, to gruesome undead, to deadly mythical beasts that result in practically endless interesting compositions. They’re divided into four factions of Order, Anarchy, Power, and Finesse, and normally you’ll want to stick to one to get the best synergies – but there are ways to build your character to be more faction-agnostic, at the cost of not being able to focus on beefing up one faction to their max potential.
The talent tree has an interesting twist to it as well, in that higher-level talents are tied to ethical decisions you’ll make in both the main story and side quests. To unlock the most powerful magic spells, for instance, you’ll have to choose Finesse over Power when given multiple ways to complete a mission. It turns out, though, that this is a better idea in theory than in practice. Finesse options tend to be the better choice in almost all cases unless you really want to put yourself in unnecessary danger for the sake of a challenge, and Anarchy vs Order typically ends up boiling down to moustache-twirling bad guy versus righteous hero. I would have liked to see a bit more complexity and nuance that could have led to more difficult decisions.
Where this got a bit awkward is when I realized that there are only a finite number of battles, and a finite amount of treasure, throughout the entire world. That means you can’t grind out weaker enemies for experience and better gear if you’re stuck, so some sections felt like I was running around from side quest to side quest looking for a fight that I could actually win with my current power. It also means you can technically get a “game over” by losing all of your units and not having the money to replace them. King’s Bounty 2 lets you save anywhere at any time, so this is more of a theoretical issue. But it’s also kind of a poster child for the handful of awkward design decisions that just don’t seem well thought-out.
Dog the Bounty Hunter shares a kiss with bride-to-be Francie Frane… ahead of their wedding
He filed for a marriage license last week in the state of Colorado with his bride-to-be Francie Fane.
And on Wednesday, Dog the Bounty Hunter, 68, was seen sharing a kiss with Francie ahead of their reported scheduled wedding on Thursday.
The sighting comes amid an onslaught of family drama involving daughter Bonnie Chapman who had been uninvited from the impending nuptials over an ongoing rift.
Kiss kiss: He filed for a marriage license last week in the state of Colorado with his bride-to-be Francie Fane. And on Wednesday, Dog the Bounty Hunter, 68, was seen sharing a kiss with Francie ahead of their reported scheduled wedding on Thursday
The reality star was seen kissing his bride-to-be and sharing an intimate moment while out and about in Colorado.
The duo were joined by pals for a dinner on Wednesday night, with Dog grinning ear to ear during the outing one day before their wedding.
Dog enjoyed a smoke break with pals just outside the restaurant.
Dog – whose real name is Duane Lee Chapman – was first revealed to be in a romance with Francie, a 52-year-old rancher from Colorado – in March 2020 – 10 months after his late wife Beth passed away after a battle with Stage 4 lung cancer.
A moment: The sighting comes amid an onslaught of family drama involving daughter Bonnie Chapman who had been uninvited from the impending nuptials over an ongoing rift
Close: The reality star was seen kissing his bride-to-be and sharing an intimate moment while out and about in Colorado
Lifestyle: Dog enjoyed a smoke break with pals just outside the restaurant
On Friday the reality star filed for a marriage license in the state of Colorado, ahead of their September 2, wedding per TMZ.
The news comes amid an onslaught of family drama involving daughter Bonnie Chapman, 22, (who he shares with late wife Beth) who had been uninvited from the impending nuptials over an ongoing rift.
On August 22, Dog’s step daughter Cecily and daughter Bonnie (who he shares with late wife Beth) told TMZ that they had been uninvited to the wedding.
Both had initially theorized that it may have been because they may have ‘reminded him a little bit too much of their mom,’ before things turned ugly.
Smiling: Dog and his fiancee chatting intimately
Interesting: Dog – whose real name is Duane Lee Chapman – was first revealed to be in a romance with Francie, a 52-year-old rancher from Colorado – in March 2020 – 10 months after his late wife Beth passed away after a battle with Stage 4 lung cancer
Close: On August 22, Dog’s step daughter Cecily and daughter Bonnie (who he shares with late wife Beth) told TMZ that they had been uninvited to the wedding
Having fun: The duo were joined by pals for a dinner on Wednesday night, with Dog grinning ear to ear during the outing
Catching up: The group chatted away as he smoked a cigarette outside.
Leaving: The star seen leaving the venue
On the go: The busy reality star was chatting on his way out
Another one: Francie was seen beaming ear to ear as she chatted with friends
At the time Cecily had reached out to her stepfather Dog about not getting invited to the wedding but she alleged she never received a text back, and Bonnie had yet to confront him.
Bonnie had later followed up with the publication about a second theory and said that her involvement with Black Lives Matter fractured she and Dog’s relationship.
She also added that she believed her ongoing involvement with Unleashed TV — a network that purportedly fired her dad over his use of ‘epithets’ — was another point of contention.
Getting hitched! The 68-year-old reality star filed for a marriage license with bride-to-be Francie Frane in the state of Colorado amid ongoing family drama that has caused two of his daughters to turn on the pair
Airing it out: Bonnie had not confronted her dad about her lack of wedding invite at the time of the August 22 TMZ article but things turned ugly and she ended up blasting Dog with accusations he cheated on her mom Beth and said he used ‘racial and homophobic epithets’ towards cast members on her show The System
Following her statements, Bonnie received a text message from Dog’s fiancee Francie allegedly confirming she had not been invited to their wedding due to her activism work and failure to condemn the streaming platform that allegedly fired her father over the use of ‘epithets’.
Bonnie still works with UTV on their own show The System, which focuses on dismantling systemic racism.
Following the message, Bonnie took to Facebook to blast her father in a lengthy statement where she accused him of racism, homophobia, and cheating on his late wife ‘all the time,’ even when she was ‘sick in the hospital.’
Beth’s daughter: Cecily, the daughter of Dog’s late wife Beth had originally theorized that she and her sister were not invited to the September 2 wedding because they bore a striking resemblance to their mother
Focused: He cut a casual figure as he smiled with Francie
Solo: He sat down for meal soon after
Beth and Dog were married from 2006 to her passing in June 2019 at the age of 51 from lung cancer.
In the post she also brandished him as having ‘racist ways,’ said he sat idly by when her life was ‘threatened on several occasions by QAnon wackos,’ and said she felt inclined to speak out to honor her mom’s legacy as she would have not ‘stand for this.’
Bonnie also claimed Francie traveled on a plane ‘knowing’ she was infected with COVID-19 and attended events as she wrote: ‘She didn’t seem to care about the thousands of people she could have infected.’
‘If my dad and his new wife want to travel to right-wing churches attacking gay people and advancing QAnon theories, he can certainly do that, but I’m going to stand by the memory and legacy of my mom, Beth Chapman. Her memory, and the values she stood for, are worth fighting to advance,’ another excerpt read.
A representative for Dog denied Beth’s allegations in a statement obtained by E!: ‘Bonnie’s allegations are false and a misguided attempt to derail our wedding.’
In August, Dog struck an optimistic note while speaking with Us Weekly about his upcoming nuptials.
‘I have a large family and most of them are going to be here for it. I love all my kids and it’s going to be great to have so many people here to celebrate,’ he told the site.
‘We’ve spent so long on this to ensure it’s going to be just perfect and believe me, nothing is going to get in the way of us,’ he added.
The reality star added it was sad his daughters Cecily and Bonnie were attempting to ‘bring a cloud over our wedding.’
Dog – who is a father of 13 – denied his daughters claims he was fired over using racist/homophobic language, calling the accusations a ‘false’ attempt to mess with the wedding.
He also told TMZ his daughters are being ‘groomed’ by his shady former associates, pleading: ‘Please pray for Bonnie and Cecily to be released from whatever hold these people have on them.’
Protective: Francie confirmed that the sisters had not been invited to the wedding via text because they continued to ‘align’ themselves with people from the network that she says ‘tried to ruin his career’
‘Despite the sadness, we feel at this rift in our family, Francie and I are looking forward to celebrating our wedding next week with the rest of our family and close friends.’
And his other daughter Lyssa also appeared to have his back as she said tearfully on social media this week: ‘Bonnie and Cecily are loved by our family. We are heartbroken that bad people are using them to get revenge on Dad.’
‘Everything Bonnie is alleging has been put in her head by ex-business partners of my father who are angry they couldn’t ride his coattails any longer. Dad quit when he realized they were con men,
Chapman has been married five times and has 13 children. His first child is Christopher Michael Hecht, whose mother is Debbie White.
He two children with his first ex-wife, La Fonda Sue Darnell: they are sons Duane Lee Chapman, II (born in 1973) and Leland Blane Chapman (born in 1976).
With second ex-wife Ann Tegnell, Dog welcomed three children: Zebadiah Chapman (born in 1980, but is deceased) Wesley Chapman (also born in 1980), and James Robert Chapman (born in 1982).
With third ex-wife, Lyssa Rae Brittain, he had daughter Barbara Katie Chapman (born 1982; she is deceased), son Tucker Dee Chapman (born 1983) and Lyssa Rae Chapman (born 1987).
Dog had two children with Beth: Bonnie (born 1998) and Garry (born 2001).
He adopted Cecily Barmore-Chapman (born 1993) who Beth had with her ex-husband.
On blast: In Bonnie’s Facebook statement she accused her father of cheating on her late mom ‘all the time’ even when she was ‘sick in the hospital’ with Stage 4 lung cancer which ultimately took her life in June 2019; pictured June 2013
Dog the Bounty Hunter’s Daughter Claims Her BLM Support Created Rift
Dog the Bounty Hunter let his daughter’s passion for racial equality and BLM sink their relationship … at least that’s what she’s claiming — but Dog’s pushing back, calling her brainwashed.
Bonnie Chapman, biological daughter of Dog and the late Beth Chapman, tells TMZ … she believes her continued work with UnleashedTV — a network that canned her dad this year — is the true impetus behind her and her step-sis, Cecily, not getting an invite to his wedding.
The whole thing boiled over this past weekend when Dog’s new fiancee, Francie Frane, allegedly sent Bonnie a scathing text, which seems to allude to Bonnie’s continued partnership with the network.
It reads, in part, “[L]et’s not beat around the bush, You & Cecily both know You haven’t been invited to the wedding because your (sic) living under the same roof with people who stabbed (him), robbed, lied, manipulated, smeared his name and tried to ruin his career.”
Bonnie tells us Francie is referring to Dog’s canceled reality series ‘Unleashed’ — which mysteriously got cut short earlier this year. Bonnie claims her dad got the boot over racial/homophobic epithets he allegedly used, which she says led to the company terminating its contract with him.
Bonnie and Cecily still work with UTV on their own show, “The System” — which focuses on racial justice and supporting BLM … which she claims grinds Dog’s gears. She also alleges Dog has called BLM protesters “thugs” and other derogatory terms.
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Bonnie says her passionate support of equality for all is her way of keeping her mom’s legacy alive — she says Beth always spoke up when she saw someone being wronged.
Dog, for his part, says Bonnie’s allegations about him are “false” — and nothing but a misguided attempt to derail his and Francie’s wedding.
He goes on to say she and Cecily are being “groomed” by unscrupulous former associates of his — guys he tracked down when they’d allegedly jumped bail — and he suggests they’re up to no good now.
He ends with this, “Please pray for Bonnie and Cecily to be released from whatever hold these people have on them,” adding … “Despite the sadness, we feel at this rift in our family, Francie and I are looking forward to celebrating our wedding next week with the rest of our family and close friends.”