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Kid Rock denies ownership of dildo in Insane Clown Posse harassment case

By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 6 August 2014

Kid Rock, real name Robert Ritchie, has denied being in possession of a key piece of evidence in a sexual harassment case against Insane Clown Posse’s Psychopathic Records. And he’s not best pleased about the suggestion that he might have received the item, a glass dildo, as a gift from one of the defendants, who he says he has never met.

As previously reported, Rasor Law Firm, which is representing the plaintiff in the case, Andrea Pellegrini, put out a press release last month about the matter. The company said that it had subpoenaed Ritchie, after Psychopathic employee ‘Dirty Dan’ Diamond claimed to have given the rapper the sex toy after Pellegrini had refused it as a present. Diamond, apparently, claimed that the “phallic object” is “a work of art”.

Ritchie was given fourteen days to respond. And boy did he. In letters to Rasor Law Firm’s Jim Rasor and Jon Marko, and Diamond’s lawyer Brian Koncius of Bogas, Koncius & Cronson, both now published on his website, the rapper explained in no uncertain terms that he had not got the item, had never had the item, and had never met the man who was supposed to have given it to him.

To Rasor and Marko, Ritchie wrote: “I’m told that you have issued a subpoena for a ‘glass dildo’ that was supposedly given to me. No idea what you’re talking about, and I definitely don’t have it. I’ve never heard of, seen, or met any people involved in this case. But I’m pretty sure you already know that. What I do know is that you’ve been dragging my name around in the media to gain attention for your sad ass excuse for a law firm. I don’t care what you do when you finally catch up to the ambulances you chase, but I do care when you bring my name into it for no reason at all”.

The rest of the letter was spent asking how the two lawyers would feel if “in a lawsuit that another crappy firm was handling, your names were brought up for no reason”.

Positing a situation in which the two men “open the newspaper [and] there’s a report from someone you’ve never heard of talking about how Jon Marko and Jim Rasor got caught molesting animals at a petting zoo while high on bath salts”, he concluded: “Say you were people who aren’t a blight on our planet – wouldn’t you be pissed off that your name, for days on end, was being mentioned in the press when EVERYONE involved knew you weren’t involved in any way? Welcome to my side of this story”.

Moving on to Koncius, he wrote: “Even if it was the ‘Rasor Law Firm’ that sent a press release to the press, you have done nothing to clear up this blatant lie which makes you to blame too. It is obvious that all you assholes are using my name and notoriety to garner publicity for yourselves, which makes you the worst kind of scum. You’re the types of lawyers that make America a worse place for everyone”.

In a round about way, he went on to request that Koncius get his client to admit that the story was a fabrication, adding: “Your website says you represent people who are ‘interested in doing the right thing’. I don’t believe that, but prove me wrong”.

Neither Rasor Law Firm nor Bogas, Koncius & Cronson returned requests for comment.