In a Twitter statement on Friday afternoon, former Gallery1988 manager Lily Idle said that when she managed the venue, she witnessed Karp “completely screw an artist out of any profit from a solo show that was the culmination of a year’s worth of painting.” Idle withheld the name of the artist, citing their privacy, but claimed Karp convinced them to create a show around a certain intellectual property which Karp wanted to work with down the line. Visell said because of the experience, she never dealt with Karp’s gallery again. In the messages, seen by The Daily Beast, Visell becomes so frustrated with Karp, she accuses him of being a liar. She admits it’s a small detail in the wider claims surrounding Karp but felt so weird about the situation she kept the chat transcript with Karp all these years. She echoed Bird’s claims, telling The Daily Beast how Karp tried to gaslight her about a dispute over chipping in some money for costs related to the show. The pop culture-focused gallery is well-known in the Los Angeles art scene and describes itself as being a “premiere venue to witness the rise of emerging artists before they break.”Īrtist Amanda Visell worked with the gallery on a couple of group shows before having her first solo exhibit there in January of 2007. In addition to his other work, Karp has run Gallery1988 alongside Katie Sutton since 2004. That’s very annoying and I don’t want to be part of that.” He has not since responded to requests for comment on the allegations, as well as going silent on Twitter.) “I have a career outside of being the stupid shrimp guy that would be on the line as you know, including being an Emmy-nominated writer,” he said. (In an interview with The Daily Beast before the allegations surfaced, Karp insisted the incident was legit. Stories also began to circulate about Karp professionally, as many began casting doubt on his cereal story. Stetten, Uphold, Mickus, and Meghan did not comment on the allegations when reached by The Daily Beast. “That you should be apologizing to him for something you did, even though you didn't do anything wrong.” “He constantly makes you feel like he's the victim of something,” she said. Upon hearing all of these women’s stories, a former girlfriend of Karp’s told The Daily Beast that she feels that she’s one of the “lucky ones'' for being able to recognize that Karp was “verbally abusive and a manipulator.” She credits this in being able to walk away from the relationship when it went south. Even after he broke up with me, he kept in close contact to try to mold me into the person he wanted me to be under the guise of ‘if you just do this, we can get back together and live happily ever after’ but that was never the case.” Writer Stephanie Mickus alluded to an alleged incident with Karp where he blocked her on Twitter when she was not “gracious enough after a surprise threesome” and allegedly told her to “be careful or I would never work in this town again.” She later added that she’d been contacted by several women who had “shared experiences” with Karp.Īnother woman, who goes by the name of Meghan, tweeted that Karp “is selfish, controlling, manipulative, and ruined my life for close to a decade. “Getting lots of texts from girls still in therapy over his terror. “‘What you may not know about the man behind the viral posts’ what like he’s a manipulative gaslighting narcissistic ex-boyfriend who once told me he was surprised I hadn’t killed myself because my life was so worthless,” she wrote. One of the first to speak out was Melissa Stetten, who previously worked with Karp on her documentary Pistol Shrimps and on a Bachelor podcast in 2016. Industry peers and former coworkers also began to speak out, detailing repeated incidents where Karp allegedly screamed at people and ripped off ideas and spun them as his own. Karp, a Los Angeles-based comedian and writer, seemed to revel in the spotlight, eagerly talking to The New York Times for a humorous interview about scarfing down a bowl and going back for seconds when the apparent crustaceans’ remains “plopped” out and discussed his ongoing talks with General Mills.īut by Wednesday afternoon, as Karp kept gleefully tweeting about every development, rumblings began to emerge from former girlfriends who accused the 41-year-old of manipulation and abusive behavior. Jensen Karp started off the week by going viral for finding what appeared to be sugar-coated shrimp tails in a box of his Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal.
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