Model Vanessa Hessler fired for praising Gaddafis

[jakeXT]

Source: Associated Press

Model Vanessa Hessler fired for praising Gaddafis

A GERMAN company has cancelled a major advertising contract with an Italian-American model after she described her passionate relationship with Muammar Gaddafi's son, Muatassim, and praised his family.

Telecommunications firm Telefonica Germany and its subsidiary, Alice, will stop working with 23-year-old model Vanessa Hessler and remove her face from its website within hours, spokesman Albert Fetsch said today.

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"I didn't have any contact with him since the uprising broke out, but our relationship was one of passion," she was quoted as saying by the magazine. "The Gaddafi family is not as they are being depicted, they are normal people."

The model-turned-actress also said she was crying for Libya, adding that the rebels are "people who don't know what they're doing".


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/model-vanessa-hessler-fired-for-praising-gaddafis/story-e6frfku0-1226182169034

[UnrepentantLiberal]

1. Oh well.

Does Chaves have sons?

[SkyDaddy7]

2. That was uncalled for...

I nearly choked on my bagel!

That was hilarious!

[Yo_Mama]

16. Best comment ever!

You should do the one-liner thing for pay if you can pull that off very often. I just saw a flash of Jay Leno saying that line!

[lunatica]

3. Dictator offspring and supermodels = now there's your everday normal relationship.

[AngryAmish]

12. it kinda is

supermodels tend to hang out with billionaires. Remember Naomi Campbell got all those blood diamonds from the Liberian dictator (whose exact name I forget).

[harmonicon]

4. Of what other thought crimes is she guilty? nt.

[Rebubula]

5. None

However, when you are the public face of a company - they are free to part ways with you if they deem necessary.

This is not a freedom of speech issue. This is an international company getting rid of ties (however tenuous) to a brutal dictator. Pretty simple really.

[No Elephants]

6. Self delete..

[Darth_Kitten]

10. Like she's thought things through.

n/t

[Xithras]

14. She's a grieving young woman.

No matter what our opinions are of him, the two were apparently personal friends (and more) for years. She's not mourning the son of a dictator, but is simply grieving the loss of a friend and his family. From a human perspective, that's understandable.

[No Elephants]

7. I'm trying to figure out why this warrants an AP story.

[dipsydoodle]

8. Otherwise blank news day ?

:shrug:

[Darth_Kitten]

15. You know Kim Kardashian's marriage broke up?

Really, really tragic news. A media whore can't keep a man. I am shocked beyond words. :sarcasm:

[Darth_Kitten]

9. Apparently she was doing more than praising them....

Models and their passions...news at 6.

[edbermac]

11. The son was one lucky SOB

[UnrepentantLiberal]

13. Come on. Can't the son of a dictator dig a girl for her intellect?

[Selatius]

19. Hell, if you had several billion in oil money in your account ...

... Well, I'm not gonna accuse her of being a gold digger, but you'd be attracting quite a different set of girls than you would if you only had a few dollars.

[mainer]

17. And in a similar vein: Jewish New Yorker was Gaddafi's pen pal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/louis-schlamowitz-gaddafi-pen-pal_n_1069414.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing11%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk2%7C109221

[KamaAina]

18. Who?

:shrug: