I aspire in this post to embolden and
enlighten my readers. In this post, I respond to something said about
me six years ago but then I was not able to respond. This because I
was so wounded in this battle for my name, it was too traumatizing to
read it all and every day. I can not honestly say I am less wounded
now but I am older.
I respond to the following:
I recently found a screenshot of a post
written by Tracy Ryan Terhune on March 29, 2014 on his hate Affairs
Valentino blog. It was an image he posted of Christ pointing the
way to Satan... Telling Satan to, “Get thee to the Lake of Fire!”
As Tracy Ryan Terhune posted this on his blog which he runs under
the title of and steeped in hatred of my Rudolph Valentino biography,
Affairs Valentino, it was very clear who he felt he was in that
image and who I was.
As I mentioned, I did not read his
mean-spirited post below this image. However, I did read it the other
day. It was an accusation that he was my victim. I have decided I
would respond now. What is the expression? “Better late than
never”?
In this post on March 29, 2014, Tracy
Ryan Terhune says he never met me and posed this as an argument for
his claiming he is my victim. If someone has bullied you online for a
decade, you do not need to meet them face to face to feel justified
in defending yourself with a response or even a million responses. As
long as he continues, my response will be forthcoming.
I ask what relevance his not having met
me... has to do with the years of his issuing his blatant online
bullying of me, my work and my husband Renato Floris? He displays his
fat file folders of printouts of my years of defending myself and
deceives again by claiming they contain evidence of my bullying him.
This is false. I stand proudly behind every word I have ever written
in my defense and in an attempt to have my truth known as I do again
here today.
I doubt that anyone today could read
what Tracy Ryan Terhune has written to date, including the vicious,
ageist name-calling he has posted about my husband and I and not
recognize that he is, and always has been, the bully. Perhaps he
does not know “victim-blaming” is one of the top ten definitions
of a cyber-bully on the U.S. Government's cyber-bullying website.
This is but a strategy by the bully to try and silence and shame
their victim by threatening them further if they dare to protest or
defend themselves.
Over the years I have responded via
many venues and in varied formats from humor to irony to fierce
rebuttal, various blogs and even videos... to what avail? None. It is
now ten years since Affairs Valentino was first published and
he is still openly bullying us online. The totality of all the posts
he has made and approved of on the blog he runs under Affairs
Valentino, stands as testimony to this statement.
Additionally Tracy Ryan Terhune has
organized, participated in and acted as leader in an aggressive and
organized effort to ruin us.
I cite the following in support of
this statement:
In May and June of 2019, Ms. Cindy
Martin, who formerly posted on the Affairs Valentino hate blog
run by Terhune, engaged in a revelatory exchange with my husband
Renato Floris.... she wrote the following which I excerpt from her
lengthy messages solely for the purposes of supporting my statements
here today.
May 29, 2019: “There are now new
individuals Tracy is using to achieve his nasty goal and they are
attempting to make my life difficult. I am having enough trouble with
bullying from them...
On the same date:
“I was duped into treating you and Evelyn badly and I stopped it of
my own accord by accusing Tracy of bullying..”
“I realized I was being used in a
terrible way and Tracy knew very well that Simon knew who I was.
Those two are now thick as thieves along with Donna Hill and they are
working against Evelyn.”
“David Bret has been masquerading as
Albert Morris for quite some time now.”
“Tracy is truly a snake'”
“Tracy is a master at manipulation.”
“Tracy has always been the puppet
master. No one else has ever pulled the strings. Even David would
read his entire statement for his blog to him before posting it.”
“I told him (Tracy) a while ago that
I refused to be a part of his “ bully-machine” against you and
Evelyn.”
“I told Tracy he was a bully and he
unfriended me which suits me just fine.”
On June 2, 2019: “No one told me then
that Tracy had these court papers all along... Tracy certainly did
not.”
June 10, 2019: “Tracy, David, Simon
and that bunch continue their campaign against you.”
I believe it was easier to fool the
public when this campaign against us began ten years ago. Then we had
only published one book, Affairs Valentino. Today we have
published twelve. People are more savvy now and recognize the
rhetoric and the actions of online bullies. The content of Tracy Ryan
Terhune's Affairs Valentino hate blog is proof enough of just
who is the bully and who is the victim. We have been accused of
bullying him when the exact opposite is the case and times a billion.
I thank the courageous and very honest
Ms. Martin for her candor and sincerity in assisting us in exposing
this situation. She has greatly contributed to a cure for this plague
of bullies who are currently controlling a false narrative about
Rudolph Valentino. Ms. Martin's commentary to Renato is, in my
opinion, heroic.
I hope that more people, like Ms.
Martin will question these bullies denigrating remarks about us and
our work and question their actions...and in doing so help to bring
an end to this bullying campaign. Perhaps in this way a new era of
truth about Rudolph Valentino and his life story will begin; one of
cooperation, respect and inclusion.
