Republican political pundit Candace Owens is hitting back against an author who has leaked her private emails. In return, she has accused him of being involved in sexual misconduct.
On Friday, Jesse Singal, an author and journalist with work featured in The New York Times and The Atlantic, leaked private emails from Owens stating that the story he featured her in for New York Magazine made her uncomfortable. She added that there were women who had reached out to her about similar allegations of Singal’s awkward behavior back when he was in college.
“I do not feel safe anymore. I am asking you to stop following me and my every move on Twitter,” she writes in the emails, adding that she would coalesce with the other women and contact the police if he did not cease to stop communications with her.
“I don’t know if she was simply lying or was so addled that she *thought* it was true in the moment,” Singal replied on Twitter. “That is always the tricky thing with her, but what she’s doing to [Stephen] Crowder (who did, on the merits, clown himself) here is absolutely a pattern.”
Stephen Crowder is a conservative, right-leaning YouTuber who Owens had also accused of sexual misconduct. He would not go into detail about the feud between the two.
On a recent episode of Owens’ highly-watched podcast, she alluded to having information on Singal but did not say specifically what information she held.
News of the spat between Owens and Singal comes just one month after the 33-year-old Connecticut native emerged triumphant after winning a lawsuit filed against her in 2021.
In the suit, Republican politician Kimberly Klacik accused Owens of posting a video on Instagram claiming that Klacik committed campaign fraud, laundered money and illegally used drugs. The video also said that the politician was a “madam” of a strip club.
Klacik was seeking $20 million in damages, according to Law & Crime. But rather than being awarded the money, Klacik must now pay $115,000 in “attorney’s fees and discretionary costs.”
Owens’s attorney, Daniel Horwitz told The Baltimore Sun that he hopes the thrown-out case will “deter other politicians from filing baseless SLAPP suits in the future.”
