When Robert Steinbuch discovered his girlfriend had discussed intimate details about their sex life in her online diary, the Capitol Hill staffer didn’t just get mad. He got a lawyer.
Soon, though, the racy tidbits about the sex lives of the two Senate aides faded from the front pages and the gossip pages. Steinbuch accepted a teaching job in Arkansas, leaving Washington and Jessica Cutler’s “Washingtonienne” Web log behind.
While sex scandals turn over quickly in this city, lawsuits do not. Steinbuch’s case over the embarrassing, sexually charged blog appears headed for an embarrassing, sexually charged trial.
Lurid testimony about spanking, handcuffs and prostitution aside, the Washingtonienne case could help establish whether people who keep online diaries are obligated to protect the privacy of the people they interact with offline.
She has a new Web site, nowadays, where she solicits donations “for slutty clothes and drugs.” That has nothing to do with whatever legal precedent — if any — the law suit will establish. Just points out that you really should think about who you date sometimes — in advance.
Sometimes people become far too comfortable with the Internet and forget they’re airing out their own dirty laundry for the entire world to see
I dated his girlfiend too. She does have a big mouth…
Man this guy’s a bedwetter! She’s well rid of him! Wouldn’t be surprised if he turned out gay.
$400 seems high to bang fugly there. The Republicans left on The Hill really need to aim higher.
I doubt if this will make it to trial. If the plaintiff can’t even say how he was injured then how can the defense offer anything. Then, as I understand, he was never directly identified. Only a select few understood who he was.