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11 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Amid an acrimonious falling out over who controls the future of a digital news site that Tim Pool helped launch, the YouTube star is facing accusations from former partners that he used a cat named Betsy as a hostage in business negotiations trib.al/BIkHLhA
“He was trying to use my cat as leverage,” said Emily Molli.

Tim Pool denies it. “The cat was never transferred to me, Emily left it with Ian and she was talking with him,” he wrote in an email to The Daily Beast. trib.al/BIkHLhA
When he’s not facing cat-related accusations, Pool is living the life of a YouTube star.

His videos have amassed more than 1.1 billion cumulative views. He has a million-dollar mansion in Maryland, complete with a podcast studio and a skate park. trib.al/BIkHLhA
But the fracas sheds new light on how Pool and his co-founders failed to launch a news site amid infighting, despite more than $1 million in crowdfunded backing. Pool has wondered whether his site even exists anymore. trib.al/BIkHLhA
“Much more information on this will be made public in the coming weeks,” Pool wrote in an email, after angry voicemails from a person whose voice closely resembles his were shared with The Daily Beast.

Read the entire saga by @willsommer here: trib.al/BIkHLhA

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