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        <title><![CDATA[Chris D’Elia’s team releases comedian’s email exchanges with accusers]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With Chris D&#8217;Elia&#8217;s career crashing down around him, the comedian&#8217;s camp is surprisingly taking aim at the women who have accused him of sexual improprieties.</p><p>Last Tuesday <strong>a slew of women began making claims online</strong> that D&#8217;Elia had asked them for nude pictures — some when they were underage — and one claimed that he had exposed his erect penis to her in a hotel room. He&#8217;s since been <strong>fired by his CAA agent</strong> and his manager and a number of his shows have been pulled from streaming sites.</p><p>Now reps for D&#8217;Elia, who <strong>played Whitney Cumming&#8217;s boyfriend on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Whitney&#8221;</strong> for several seasons, have released emails to Page Six which — they claim — paint a fuller picture of the incidents.</p><p>They provided an email between D&#8217;Elia and Clara Schaller, a woman who last week posted emails from 2012 on Twitter in which D&#8217;Elia said in he wanted to have &#8220;naked sex&#8221; with her. When she made them public, she claimed that she was 17 at the time of the exchange. D&#8217;Elia&#8217;s camp released an email to us that showed D&#8217;Elia had allegedly asked her approximately midway through their exchange, &#8220;How old are you?&#8221; She replied &#8220;12,&#8221; apparently kidding. He responded, &#8220;Answerrrrr,&#8221; to which she said, &#8220;24?&#8221;</p><p>It should be noted that he asked her for &#8220;pics&#8221; before asking her age, and continued the lewd conversation, even though he didn&#8217;t get a straight answer on her age.</p><p>Another woman, Colleen Riley, posted a 2014 message from D&#8217;Elia in which he asked her to &#8220;make out,&#8221; followed by another in which she said, &#8220;Chris, I&#8217;m 16.&#8221; D&#8217;Elia&#8217;s camp gave us another email in that chain, in which he allegedly replied, &#8220;Oh sh**. I thought you were at my [standup] show. Gotta be 18 [to get into that] at least. My bad. Bye.&#8221; The reps pointed out that Riley didn&#8217;t include that message in the series that she made public.</p><p>And finally, they released an email from Simone Rossi, one of the first women to accuse D&#8217;Elia of misconduct. Rossi told the LA Times that she had an online exchange with D’Elia in 2015 when she was 16, and claimed that he&#8217;d asked her to “make out” and send him pictures of herself.</p><p>On Wednesday D&#8217;Elia&#8217;s camp released an email from October 2019, in which Rossi allegedly wrote to D&#8217;Elia, &#8220;I&#8217;m 21 now and [down to f***].&#8221; His reps say D&#8217;Elia didn&#8217;t respond to her.</p><p>Yet Rossi also wrote on Twitter alongside her screenshots of his messages, &#8220;Imagine being 16 and being groomed by a stand up comedian twice ur age and the only reason you never met up and never got physically m*lested was because u had just gotten a boyfriend of ur own age.&#8221;</p><p>She added, &#8220;He was the one that used the power imbalance between us to his advantage so f*** chris d’elia.&#8221;</p><p>D&#8217;Elia&#8217;s reps didn&#8217;t provide rebuttals or additional messages in response to any of the many other allegations, which <strong>the LA Times described as &#8220;an avalanche of screenshots&#8221;</strong> of exchanges between D&#8217;Elia and women.</p><p>In the same story in the Times, a woman named Laura Vitarelli (who was not a minor at the time) said that in 2015 he invited her and a friend to a party at this New York City hotel after a gig. She said that when they arrived, there was no sign of a party.</p><p>Eventually they decided to leave, but the Times reports, &#8220;as they started to gather their things, both women say, he pulled down his sweatpants, pulled out his erect penis and asked: &#8216;Are you sure about that?&#8217;&#8221;</p><p>After the allegations surfaced, <strong>D&#8217;Elia told TMZ</strong>, &#8220;I have never knowingly pursued any underage women at any point,&#8221; adding, &#8220;All of my relationships have been both legal and consensual and I have never met or exchanged any inappropriate photos with the people who have tweeted about me.&#8221;</p><p>He said he&#8217;s &#8220;truly sorry,&#8221; and that &#8220;I was a dumb guy who ABSOLUTELY let myself get caught up in my lifestyle. That’s MY fault.&#8221;</p><p>Of the newly released emails, D&#8217;Elia&#8217;s rep told Page Six, &#8220;It is important that the public has all the information to make an informed decision on the coordinated attacks on Chris D&#8217;Elia,&#8221; adding that &#8220;these<span > messages help prove that all of Chris&#8217;s relationships were both legal and consensual.&#8221;</span></p><p>D&#8217;Elia played a character who preyed on young women in both Netflix hit &#8220;You.&#8221; It&#8217;s star, Penn Badgely, <strong>said on a podcast this week</strong> that the claims, “did affect me deeply.” He added, “I was very troubled by it.”</p><p>Cummings has said of the allegations, &#8220;I&#8217;m devastated and enraged by what I&#8217;ve read and learned.&#8221; She added, &#8220;This is a pattern of predatory behavior. This abuse of power is enabled by silence. Now that I&#8217;m aware, I won&#8217;t be silent.&#8221;</p><p>According to Deadline, Comedy Central, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video all <strong>removed an episode of the series &#8220;Workaholics&#8221;</strong> in which he also played a child molester, and Comedy Central has removed one of his specials.</p><p>Schaller, Riley and Rossi didn&#8217;t respond to our requests for comment by press time.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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