Playwright David Bar Katz filed a $50 ln lawsu after the publitn claimed he told them he and the actor were gay lovers.
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- WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY?
- IS THE PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY LOVER LAWSU ETHIL?
- PLAYWRIGHT CLAIMS HE WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN'S SECRET GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY DAN AVERYFEBARY 5, 2014/5:12 PMBY DAN AVERYFEBARY 5, 2014 / 5:12 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"PLAYWRIGHT CLAIMS HE WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN'S SECRET GAY LOVER","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-02-05T22:12:59.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-02-05T22:12:59.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[PTN ID="ATTACHMENT_141659" ALIGN="ALIGNCENTER" WIDTH="602"] PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN[/PTN]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, THE ACCLAIMED ACTOR WHO DIED OM AN APPARENT DG OVERDOSE LAST WEEKEND, LED A SECRET GAY LIFE. THAT'S THE ALLEGATN SCREENWRER DAVID BAR KATZ, WHO DISVERED HOFFMAN'S LIFELS BODY ON SUNDAY, MA TO THE NATNAL ENQUIRER. “WE WERE HOMOSEXUAL LOVERS,” KATZ SAID A NEW TERVIEW WHICH H NEWSSTANDS TODAY. “WE HAD A RELATNSHIP.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE THE OSR-WNER DIED, KATZ SAYS THE TWO WERE “PLANNG TO GO TO THE SUPER BOWL TOGETHER AND HAVE A REALLY NICE DAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[PTN ID="" ALIGN="ALIGNRIGHT" WIDTH="236"] DAVID BAR KATZ[/PTN]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PUBLICLY, SEYMOUR WAS A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH PARTNER MIMI O'DONNELL, THE MOTHER OF HIS THREE CHILDREN. BUT A SOURCE TELLS THE MAGAZE THAT HOFFMAN’S ISSU WH DGS AND HIS SEXUALY EVENTUALLY DROVE O'DONNELL AWAY. KATZ, A IEND TO BOTH HOFFMAN AND O'DONNELL, MARRIED JULIE MERBERG 1998, AND HAS FOUR CHILDREN WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“HIS DG E, AND HIS AMBIVALENCE OVER WHETHER HE WAS STRAIGHT OR GAY, DROVE A WEDGE BETWEEN HIM AND MIMI AND BROKE THEM UP,” A SOURCE CLAIMS. “ONE PART OF HIM WANTED A NORMAL FAY LIFE WHILE ANOTHER PART WANTED HERO AND THE GAY LIFE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATZ ALLEGEDLY WNSED HOFFMAN E HERO BEFORE, AND EVEN SAW HIM EEBASE E THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS ATH, BUT "I NEVER THOUGHT HIS ADDICTN HAD REACHED THAT LEVEL,” HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SAME DAY THE ISSUE ME OUT, THOUGH, KATZ NIED HE CLAIMED AND HOFFMAN WERE ANYTHG MORE THAN IENDS, SAYG ”I NEVER SAID THAT, NO,” AND VOWG TO TAKE LEGAL ACTN AGAST THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY OR BI?
- NATNAL ENQUIRER APOLOGIZ OVER PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN ‘GAY LOVER’ STORY
- PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN PAL SETTL ‘GAY’ LAWSU AGAST NATNAL ENQUIRER
- PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN'S IEND VOWS TO SUE NATNAL ENQUIRER FOR $50 LN OVER REPORT THEY WERE GAY LOVERS: ‘I NEVER SAID THAT, NO’
- PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN FRIEND SU ENQUIRER OVER GAY LOVER STORY
WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY?
Michael Mto talked wh the actor 2005 about takg on Tman Capote the film Capote, bondg wh murrers, and why he liked to play gay * seymour hoffman gay *
“We were homosexual lovers. “His dg e, and his ambivalence over whether he was straight or gay, drove a wedge between him and Mimi and broke them up. One part of him wanted a normal fay life while another part wanted hero and the gay life.
Philip moved to Greenwich Village bee is the center of New York’s gay muny.
IS THE PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY LOVER LAWSU ETHIL?
Is It Disreputable To Be Gay? In s Febary 17, 2014 edn, the Natnal Enquirer’s ont page story claimed playwright David Bar Katz was Hoffman's gay lover, that he had seen Hoffman eebase e the night before Hoffman's ath, and that he had seen Hoffman e hero on a number of [...] * seymour hoffman gay *
While he may not have marched paras, waved rabow flags or partnered wh gay rights groups, Hoffman put homosexualy ont and center by portrayg gay characters as beg more than jt gay. Rather than focg on the fact that the tle character was gay, Hoffman chose to portray thor Tman Capote as nuanced well beyond his sexualy. Yeah, Capote was gay, but he was first and foremost a person.
His homosexualy was only part of who he was, not a qualy that fed who he was.
We'd be actually sayg, 'Well, he's gay, so we should probably show somethg about the fact that he's gay. '"Hoffman revealed his approach to playg gay rol, like the lead Capote, an terview wh Out magaze, sayg "When I play somebody gay, I never thk of as 'I'm playg a gay character. "Whether was the gay-cur, boom-mic operator Stty Boogie Nights, or the flamboyant drag queen Rty Flawls, Hoffman brought siar nuance to LGBT rol throughout his reer, elevatg their stat popular tertgly enough, the LGBT muny regniz Hoffman for troducg a certa element of sexual ambiguy to seemgly straight characters.
PLAYWRIGHT CLAIMS HE WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN'S SECRET GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY DAN AVERYFEBARY 5, 2014/5:12 PMBY DAN AVERYFEBARY 5, 2014 / 5:12 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"PLAYWRIGHT CLAIMS HE WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN'S SECRET GAY LOVER","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-02-05T22:12:59.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-02-05T22:12:59.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[PTN ID="ATTACHMENT_141659" ALIGN="ALIGNCENTER" WIDTH="602"] PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN[/PTN]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, THE ACCLAIMED ACTOR WHO DIED OM AN APPARENT DG OVERDOSE LAST WEEKEND, LED A SECRET GAY LIFE. THAT'S THE ALLEGATN SCREENWRER DAVID BAR KATZ, WHO DISVERED HOFFMAN'S LIFELS BODY ON SUNDAY, MA TO THE NATNAL ENQUIRER. “WE WERE HOMOSEXUAL LOVERS,” KATZ SAID A NEW TERVIEW WHICH H NEWSSTANDS TODAY. “WE HAD A RELATNSHIP.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE THE OSR-WNER DIED, KATZ SAYS THE TWO WERE “PLANNG TO GO TO THE SUPER BOWL TOGETHER AND HAVE A REALLY NICE DAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[PTN ID="" ALIGN="ALIGNRIGHT" WIDTH="236"] DAVID BAR KATZ[/PTN]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PUBLICLY, SEYMOUR WAS A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH PARTNER MIMI O'DONNELL, THE MOTHER OF HIS THREE CHILDREN. BUT A SOURCE TELLS THE MAGAZE THAT HOFFMAN’S ISSU WH DGS AND HIS SEXUALY EVENTUALLY DROVE O'DONNELL AWAY. KATZ, A IEND TO BOTH HOFFMAN AND O'DONNELL, MARRIED JULIE MERBERG 1998, AND HAS FOUR CHILDREN WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“HIS DG E, AND HIS AMBIVALENCE OVER WHETHER HE WAS STRAIGHT OR GAY, DROVE A WEDGE BETWEEN HIM AND MIMI AND BROKE THEM UP,” A SOURCE CLAIMS. “ONE PART OF HIM WANTED A NORMAL FAY LIFE WHILE ANOTHER PART WANTED HERO AND THE GAY LIFE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATZ ALLEGEDLY WNSED HOFFMAN E HERO BEFORE, AND EVEN SAW HIM EEBASE E THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS ATH, BUT "I NEVER THOUGHT HIS ADDICTN HAD REACHED THAT LEVEL,” HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SAME DAY THE ISSUE ME OUT, THOUGH, KATZ NIED HE CLAIMED AND HOFFMAN WERE ANYTHG MORE THAN IENDS, SAYG ”I NEVER SAID THAT, NO,” AND VOWG TO TAKE LEGAL ACTN AGAST THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
The notorly sketchy Natnal Enquirer is claimg to have unvered the gay relatnship between late Capote actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and his * seymour hoffman gay *
Crics praised Matt Damon for his role as Liberace's 17-year-old lover Behd the Canlabra, not to mentn the fact that he played a gay lead The Talented Mr. A versn of this terview origally appeared the October 2005 issue of OutA regular prence gay-themed movi (The Talented Mr.
He was a gay man and that was part of who he was. Hopefully a lot of people will be troduced to him is certaly not your troductn to playg gay. Are you drawn to gay projects or do they fd you?
When I play somebody gay, I never thk of as "I'm playg a gay character. Wh Flawls, 's not that he was gay--I found more tertg that he thought he was a woman. And Boogie Nights, he was so pletely stunted I don't even thk he knew his attractns were of a gay nature.
WAS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN GAY OR BI?
Is It Disreputable To Be Gay?
In s Febary 17, 2014 edn, the Natnal Enquirer’s ont page story claimed playwright David Bar Katz was Hoffman's gay lover, that he had seen Hoffman eebase e the night before Hoffman's ath, and that he had seen Hoffman e hero on a number of other ocsns.
But what about the claim that Bar Katz was Hoffman’s gay lover?
NATNAL ENQUIRER APOLOGIZ OVER PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN ‘GAY LOVER’ STORY
They may be legal, but are famatn claims based on false accatns of beg gay ethil? In other words, the premise of Bar Katz’s claim is that a substantial percentage of the members of our society nsir beg gay to be disreputable and beg straight to be reputable. I never tend to suggt that David or I believe that llg someone gay is famatory.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN PAL SETTL ‘GAY’ LAWSU AGAST NATNAL ENQUIRER
My pot was that is famatory to allege that someone is havg an extra-maral affair, be straight or gay. Your rears should also know that, thankfully, the law New York has been evolvg to the pot where at least one appellate urt has held that an allegatn of homosexualy is not famatory. The first storyle tails a homophobic former New York Cy secury officer named Walt Koontz (Robert De Niro) who, at the begng of the movie, has a stroke while shg to a nearby crime scene.
He is burned wh partial paralysis on the right si of his body and speech problems, which n be overe wh the help of his neighbor, Rty Zimmerman (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a flamboyantly gay drag queen who often practic his milly vol abili wh fellow iends drag. Some of the elements volvg the gay drag queens are hilar and ntribute to the movie's effective mood, and Philip Seymour Hoffman is so licly clever as Rty that I would nomate his performance for an Osr almost immediately. One tabloid claimed Philip Seymour Hoffman was a gay relatnship.
"We were homosexual lovers.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN'S IEND VOWS TO SUE NATNAL ENQUIRER FOR $50 LN OVER REPORT THEY WERE GAY LOVERS: ‘I NEVER SAID THAT, NO’
They quoted him admtg, "I was Philip Seymour Hoffman's gay lover and saw him eebasg e the night before he died.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN FRIEND SU ENQUIRER OVER GAY LOVER STORY
[ptn id="attachment_141659" align="aligncenter" width="602"] Philip Seymour Hoffman[/ptn]Philip Seymour Hoffman, the acclaimed actor who died om an apparent dg overdose last weekend, led a secret gay life. “We were homosexual lovers, ” Katz said a new terview which h newsstands today. “His dg e, and his ambivalence over whether he was straight or gay, drove a wedge between him and Mimi and broke them up, ” a source claims.
“One part of him wanted a normal fay life while another part wanted hero and the gay life.