The Milo Yiannopoulos Makeover: The Alt-Right's Fallen Poster Boy Is Back for Trump 2.0
Creeps like Milo are coming out of the woodwork with trump win.
Trump really does have a lot of helpers that gladly spread his Hate and cruelty.
The Milo Yiannopoulos Makeover: The Alt-Right’s Fallen Poster Boy Is Back for Trump 2.0
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/milo-yiannopoulos-career-new-ventures-1236059885/
After years in the wilderness, the newly devout, “ex-gay,” alt-right firebrand is back with a new hustle: running a management firm for scandal-prone celebrities like Yeezy and Marjorie Taylor Greene and working for Trump Land behind the scenes.
November 14, 2024 9:57am
Just before midnight on Nov. 5, Milo Yiannopoulos’ phone rang. On the horn from West Palm Beach, says a source familiar with the matter, was a member of Donald Trump’s family. The caller would soon take the stage at Mar-a-Lago, beaming onstage along with the president-elect as Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasted across a room full of supporters awaiting a victory speech. But first, they wanted to personally thank Milo for helping the campaign smear once “useful idiots,” allies no longer wanted in Trump’s orbit, he says. The call — if indeed it happened as described, which, when Yiannopoulos is concerned, is never a given — capped a return from the ash heap for the once-ubiquitous flamboyant far-right rabble-rouser, who shot to notoriety during the first Trump campaign but fell to earth after a series of bruising scandals.
In the past few months, the 40-year-old enfant terrible has founded Tarantula, a talent management company that would leverage the honed skills of a world-class troll to steer the careers of some of pop culture’s most problematic figures. His first two clients, according to Yiannopoulos, were volatile New York rapper Azealia Banks and L.A.-based lo-fi indie songwriter and Jan. 6 attendee Ariel Pink. More followed, including imprisoned pharma bro Martin Shkreli; Los Angeles Apparel (the company owned by American Apparel founder and accused sexual harasser Dov Charney); and Ye and his on-again off-again paramour Bianca Censori. (Given Yiannopoulos’ well-known propensity for exaggeration, confirming his actual client list is a bit of a chore. While some of his alleged clients acknowledged they were working with him, others did not return THR’s calls.)
The services Tarantula offers are half traditional management — e.g. contracts and negotiations and reinvention strategies — and half public relations, deploying the type of guerilla tactics only a brazen internet mudslinger could dream up. “I seem to be able to clear paths for people who can sometimes get tangled in controversies and in problems that their unique ways of expressing themselves have created,” he says.
A canceled Twitter troll may seem like an unlikely guru, but Yiannopoulos claims his tumultuous history makes him an ideal counselor for the socially damned. Yiannopoulos — who splits his time between Detroit and L.A. — burst into the national psyche in the mid-2010s as an editor for Breitbart News and a ringleader in the vicious Gamergate online bullying campaign. By 2016, Trump was rising to power, and so was Yiannopoulos, a flamboyant out-gay 30-something Brit who’d become an unlikely avatar of the alt-right. He helped define the movement for much of mainstream media with a widely circulated treatise titled “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right.” It was published on Breitbart’s website, the conservative news outlet whose executive chairman, Steve Bannon, took a shine to the young tech editor at the dawn of the Trump years. A brand was born............
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Milo Yiannopoulos, who says he has found Christ, at a far-right prayer meeting in Baltimore in 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images