City Paper At Long Last Pulls A Decisive Win In The “Sketchiest Alt-Weekly Sales Rep” Wars
Back when we worked in the alt-weekly biz, the revolving door in editorial was only bested by the one outside the ad sales department. All kinds of sketchy characters passed through here: Future real estate agents, musicians, actors and poetry slam types, future dot-com gagillionaires, you name it. But once in a while, you’d spot a live one: Somebody who could just as easily wind up a genius, a murderer or cult leader. But City Paper has, for the moment, bested itself and the competition this week with the news breaking that former ad rep Brian Scofield has been named a person of interest in the shooting of Scott Ruffalo, brother of actor Mark Ruffalo. News broke late Friday that Scofield, along with Shaha Mishaal Adham, were wanted for questioning. Ruffalo passed yesterday, thereby making the crime at hand a murder. Just before Ruffalo’s death, however, People reported that both Adham and Scofield turned themselves in; Adham is being held without bail, and Scofield was booked for a misdemeanor traffic warrant for past
violations. Which proves once and for all that, yes, there is a worse gig than selling sex ads in the back of the paper. Care to top this, PW?
December 10th, 2008 at 10:07 am
This is a despicable article. I know Brian Scofield – he joined the magazine that I work at when he left City Paper. He was a reliable colleague and a good friend to us, nothing like the image painted above, which is cheap, lazy, offensive garbage.
December 10th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I have to agree with the previous poster. This ‘excuse for an article’ is vile distortion of the Brian Scofield some of us know.
The entire situation is a tragedy. Recent accounts of a Russian Roulette accident resulting in the death of Scott Ruffalo – if true – then it looks like his brother Mark (who has played a cop in a movie) put pressure on the Beverly Hills cops to work faster/act quicker to solve his brother’s shooting.
Resulting in what appears to be the wild goose chase of the last week. There is no doubt that the witnesses panicked and fled the scene of the shooting – which is totally wrong. But so is using your Hollywood muscle (and your blog) to slander two “people of interest.” You should be ashamed.
December 10th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
To clarify: We at Philebrity did not make up any of these facts. They were gleaned from a variety of news sources, and if you’d really, really like to shoot the messenger, there is a fat man with pink hair in Hollywood who’d just love to hear from you.
December 11th, 2008 at 9:29 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/10/police-mark-ruffalos-brot_n_149820.html