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Tickled Page #8
gonna be in a us court
and a New Zealand court,
sort this out face-to-face.
D'amato:
And I just want to sort of...
I mean,
I'm not here to antagonize.
I just genuinely want
to be able to help out.
D'amato:
Well, you did say you were
gonna sue me.
And I just wanna sort this
issue out.
D'amato:
Could you contact me
if possible?
David:
I went away feeling numb.D'amato was calm, going
instantly to legal threats,
which is what he's always done,
I suppose, as Terri,
as Jane,
as himself.
But after all this, I still
couldn't help but wonder
d'amato
really was Jane and Debbie?
Could we be wrong?
So we went back to
where it all started,
those 300 domain names
connected to
the nederdietsen group.
And that's when things
went a little crazy.
On one of those
domain names
there was
just a directory listing,
including a folder called
"my documents".
It looks like d'amato
has accidently
made hundreds of his
private files public
on the Internet.
There's d'amato's signature
on a nederdietsen
registration form.
There's also a contract with
the investigation company
he hired to look into us.
The address is exactly the same
as the address used by
Jane o'brien media
Hilton in New Zealand.
Then there are documents
and signatures
for Debbie kuhn
and Jane o'brien...
Who's also got her
own credit card.
And it turns out that d'amato
did finally
get that law degree,
from hofstra university
in 2011.
He's also been telling the boys
on a tourist visa,
even though they're working.
how he funds
his tickling empire.
As of late 2012,
he had almost six million
in his checking account.
being paid by a trust
established by his father.
He also inherited millions from
his mother's estate
when she died in 2014.
It's all family money.
There are also lots of emails
sent from Jane o'brien's
legal department.
With this in mind, we call
in to see Romeo salta,
the lawyer hired
by Jane o'brien media
who's been sending us all
the legal threats.
We want to ask him about
the correspondence
his office has sent us.
David:
But I just thoughtyou'd be curious to see...
Things been issued
in la county court,
that's signed off here
with your name.
There's another example of that
with that email address.
Romeo:
Yeah.To that, as opposed to you.
I mean, we got the one
from you originally,
which we... it's fine. We don't
need to talk about that.
It's very simple.
I only sent one.
Dylan:
Yeah.David:
Yeah.- There's your answer.
- Yeah.
Romeo:
I'll see what I can do tomake those stop.
Have they stopped?
Dylan:
Uh, we haven't heardanything for a little while.
They're listing your address
as their corporate headquarters,
though.
- My address?
- Yeah, if you look at...
David:
Your office.Dylan:
Janeobrienmedia.Com,your address is listed as their
corporate headquarters.
Yeah, but it's not my--
Dylan:
No, no.On their website at the bottom.
Romeo:
But it's not, um...Dylan:
I don't know if it's...It says
"office of corporate counsel
and New York headquarters."
Romeo:
Well, that's my address.David:
Yeah.- But it's not their...
- It's crazy. But it's...
Um, I mean,
is this weird to you?
That this person
has taken on--
it is. Of course, it's weird.
David:
Almost every legal letterwe'd received from
from salta was fake.
Like so many things
connected to d'amato,
they were all just lies,
lies to support his addiction
to tickling videos.
I started this journey curious
about a bizarre sport
called competitive
endurance tickling,
but I now think this was
never even about tickling.
This is about power,
control and harassment.
It's about one person's
twistedness
and how far that can go.
shelter himself with money
to keep his obsession going.
But now it's his life exposed.
For once, it's him on camera.
Before we leave America,
there's one last phone call
I want to make.
It's a name we found
in the documents,
one of David d'amato's last
surviving family members.
Dorothy:
Hello?- Oh, hi. Is that Dorothy?
- Yes.
Oh, hi. My name's David farrier,
I'm a journalist from
New Zealand. How are you?
- Okay.
- Yeah, good.
Hey, sorry, it's probably a bit
of a strange call
to receive out of the blue,
uh, David d'amato.
- Oh, in what way?
- Um...
He's been... it's the...
He's sort of back to the
tickling stuff again.
Oh, he is?
- Yeah, he is.
- Oh, god!
Well, I will tell you that,
um, I have no contact
with him at all.
I mean, did you think all this
had sort of come to an end?
I did think, of course,
it came to an end,
because he served time,
which I'm sure you know.
Mm.
But I don't understand, um...
I don't understand why he
went back to doing this.
I'm, like, in shock. How long
has he been doing this?
It's never stopped.
I think he has a
split personality.
He's like that fine line
between genius and insanity.
I don't know if he's gay
or he's asexual,
but he's never had a girlfriend
that I ever knew of.
he found out he was gay.
And he said that he would be
upset but he would get over it.
But he was an only child,
and, you know, he wanted
grandchildren.
He had a very,
very strange childhood.
The kids used to make
fun of him all the time.
And she used to...
She... his mother.
He was very close
to his mother.
And his mother was very
protective of him.
She never let him ride a bike
or go skiing or do anything
because she was always afraid
that he would get hurt.
And from what I understand,
the kids used to come around
the house,
and they used to
make fun of him.
And once they locked him
in a locker in school.
And, you know,
he was a teacher...
And they threw him
out of school.
You know, I was afraid of him,
because I'm alone and, um...
Yeah, I was afraid of him.
So, you know,
I'm afraid of him.
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