LA Magazine Meltdown Turns Into a ‘Mole Hunt’

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The meltdown over at Los Angeles continues as the once-esteemed magazine’s new owners cook up creative ways to stiff writers past and present, Confider has learned.

Since taking over the storied publication earlier this year, celebrity attorneys Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas and their publisher Chris Gialanella have refused to pay freelancers in a timely manner and owe hundreds of thousands of dollars to journalists. And last week we reported how the magazine began to make some of those payouts only after Confider first reached out for comment on the matter. We also exposed how Los Angeles is blurring the lines between editorial and advertorial under new editor-in-chief Shirley Halperin who has noticeably softened the mag's editorial direction away from hard-hitting journalism.

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