ALLEGATIONS OF BLACKMAIL, THREATS SWIRL BEHIND THE SCENES
By FITSNEWS || Lowcountry businessman and independent U.S. Senate candidate Thomas Ravenel broke up with his girlfriend Kathryn Dennis (the mother of his seven-month-old child) over social media this weekend.
And yeah … seems like there’s a lot of that going on in South Carolina politics these days.
Anyway, the 52-year-old star of Bravo TV’s Southern Charm reality show announced the end of his relationship with Dennis – his 23-year-old co-star – via Facebook Sunday evening. In his post, Ravenel accused Dennis of refusing to promptly clear him of recent assault allegations against her hair stylist, Lauren Moser.
During that October 17 incident – which occurred at the Charleston, S.C. home the couple shared – Ravenel also allegedly fell into a pool while carrying his baby.
Wait … didn’t Dennis have her man’s back in that case? Yes …
Not fast enough, according to Ravenel …
“When the allegations surfaced that I had assaulted Kathryn Dennis’ hairdresser, I pleaded with Kathryn to leave the Bravo shoot in Jekyll Island,” Ravenel wrote. “They had even packed her bags and had lined up a driver. She told me she was coming to clear my name but then she backed out at the last second and delayed telling the truth by 1 an 1/2 days. $900k of my campaign money down the drain.”
“The investigators even told me that if she would have come and corroborated the accuser’s story I would be cleared,” he continued. “The temptation of missing film time was a more a important value to her. So telling. Our relationship is over.”
If that sounds a bit contrived, there may be a reason why …
Sources familiar with the dust-up tell FITS that Dennis actually broke up with Ravenel first – at which point he allegedly threatened her and attempted to bribe her in an effort to “keep this private.”
Other threats were said to have been made – including one alleged death threat against a 24-year-old female political operative who is friends with Dennis.
Ravenel has quit Southern Charm twice – only to return to the show both times.
This website initially supported Ravenel’s candidacy, but several weeks ago we stopped having anything to do with it (and him) when we began to suspect the whole thing was about reality television ratings, not real world political issues.
(For our report on that, CLICK HERE).
Ravenel showed flashes of his policy brilliance during a recent radio interview with former S.C. lieutenant governor Ken Ard – but he’s been unable to avoid pitfalls in his personal life.
UPDATE: Ravenel has removed his Facebook post. Here’s the screen grab …
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80 comments
For a website that stopped having “anything to do with it (and him)”, you sure have a lot of articles about him.
Don’t worry.In my opinion , Fits will get back to stalking/ harassing Haley and her family in the morning. It appears to be personal.
Can anybody explain why what T-Rav is allegedly doing to Dennis is any different than what Fits is doing to Nikki?
T-Rav =”reality television”….Fits= “reality blog”?
Sandi = “reality” commenter
E Norma Scok—- This is a “like” for your comment since the Disqus Method is now unavailable.
Anyway, the excuses given by Mr. T sound screwy to me and hint at other yet-to=be-disclosed problems not only with his relationship but also with his life. Folks (readers and commentators, that is) this guy wanted to be YOUR US SENATOR..!!
PS to WILL: Ya’ get an A+ for the excellent photo…
Corroborated?
“Sources familiar?” Sounds like crazy Kathryn came crying back to Willy after getting dumped. Maybe you can finally help her make “her mark on the S.C. political scene.”
Mo Kincannon Less Ravenel
It’s a TRAP!
dang it. caught my ass, too.
That poor sweet baby!!! Being stuck with these two as parents just isn’t fair.
Strange how stories of stupid, trashy behavior just seem to follow this guy, no? Purely coincidental, I’m sure. One note for ol’ TR, though. His relationship with that chic isn’t “over.” Not by a long shot. He can ask any Family Court judge and he or she will ‘splain that to him right quick. He’s looking at a good 18-22 years’ worth of relationship (in some form or another) with the Dennis girl
By the way, has anyone figured out the deal on this amateurish comment system yet? If FITS was looking to cut down on input from the unwashed commenting masses, this will surely do it…
What a couple of shitbags. Poor child.
Newsflash:
T-Rav’s Sex Life w/ His Babymamma is bringing the T-Rav/K-Den Relationship to the Hartwell party in December. TBG’s Sassifaction w/ FITSNEWS New Comment System will also be there.
Mike:
No telling why the comment system changed, but it has the obvious side effect of keeping upvoted comments off the top of the page. Such comments include or have included:
Helpful tips on recovering data from a dead hard drive.
Reminders concerning a certain CDV conviction.
Observations on the obvious reversals in stance (and obvious reasons) in regards to Fits’ featured “personalities”. Templeton and T-Rav are the latest examples.
Comments calling out non-events that were 100% manufactured and hyped by Fitsnews (T-Rav’s “promising” Senate candidacy).
Comments calling out 100% manufactured drama that may or may not have occurred (“The Boeing Incident”, T-Rav again).
Comments calling out the many breaking news “exclusives” that go down the memory hole, with no further mention after the initial allegations.
Anyway, I think a good number of us understand that this is not a news site. It’s an entertainment and gossip blog, and several of the site’s “stars” either pay or are paid to garner page views. The players’ relationships reverse or go sour based on the usual dynamics…who is or is trying to fuck who, who is getting paid vs. paying for content and how much, and who among them knows enough about all of the above to twist things their way.
Sorry for the ramble.
At least the quality of the comment feature now matches the quality of “this website.”
Why the furor over changing the comments?
Fits made an obvious Business decision that he was paying Disqus too much for their services and that ,while a few of you “believers” in the so called”Free Enterprise” system would wail and gnash your teeth for awhile,you would keep the Right Wing patter coming.
And he’s right!
Thank God for the Free market!
Now,shut your damn mouths and get back to telling us all how the damn contry is coming to an end!
I remember Barry Goldwater spouting that line FIFTY damn years ago and I’m still waiting!
And I wanted soooo badly to vote against Grahamnasty.
This commenting system eats syphilitic donkey dicks dipped in a vat of ebola sputum.
Narcissistic sociopath does narcissistic sociopath things, gets angry that people view him as narcissistic sociopath.
Get help, Ravenel, and for god’s sake, pour out the alcohol (along with whatever other substances you may have).
What is a narcissistic, blabbering socialist like you going to do without a “like” button with this new format? I see a visit to Dr. Phil for you in the very near future with this change.
Only change I see on here is that the lib/socialists that post their hate of God and America while advocating for the destruction of the moral and cultural foundation in this country won’t be able to have an orgasm all over each other with the “like” button”-my guess is that button was always located in “sparklecity” SC. :-)
Wowsers! “Anonymous” is commenting now! He’s famous and shit! What a great system!
Kinda sad that T-Rav broke up with her, but who couldn’t see this coming?
Exposing your newborn child and family to the stress of a TV show & a political campaign? Most people struggle just with a new baby & new family let alone tossing those other two factors in.
The fact that T-Rav used $900K as the justification for ending his relationship with his baby’s mother is shameful.
If everyone ended their marriage on the basis of a spouse having cost the couple some money via a mistake, they’d even be MORE divorced couples.
Yes, they aren’t married, but they do have a child together, yet they are both acting like children themselves.
Smirks, where is the love for narcissistic sociopath multiple substance abusers? Just show it and they will eat out of your hand, bru. Even lick it, if you dust it with some primo blow.
“Yes, they aren’t married, but they do have a child together, yet they are both acting like children themselves.”
-Sad
True dat. But she’s got a better excuse, being much closer to actually being a child.
That is true. One of the pitfalls of having kids and/or getting married too young. (for most)
new ‘comments’ are washed out.
you cannot tell where a comment ends and a reply begins unless you hunt of the time of the post.
looks cheap.
acts cheap.
Is this some of Mace’s handiwork? If so, it will not do her business any good.
Gee, and we don’t hear much from Mark 20:14 these days either. You did the right thing. Studies show recent millennial college graduates hired for employment only last a year on the job. The study a shows that millennials do not have loyalties to their employer and will quit for another job after a year. The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. I got a 24 year old bottle of scotch and a few business ideas that will more than make up any recent campaign expenses. One thing, I want you to take me water skiing under the Ravenel Bridge. PS, Will seems ok. The more he works with and deals with Boomers the more he will be tolerable by operating and thinking like us. Shoot, he grew up with WJC in the WH, so cut him some slack.
This guy is a train wreck
when we began to suspect the whole thing was about reality television ratings, not real world political issues
Are U that Stupid Fits?
“This website initially supported Ravenel’s candidacy”…..
like ISIS, like Obama, like Sheheen, like Hutto, like Sanford, like Afghanistan, like Ervin, like Mace, like Obamacare….
FITS sure does cut a lot of his once-darlings loose….LMAO…
Bout the only thing FITS does NOT support is success…Hahahaha..
Amen Big T.
What happened to the comment format?
T Rav obviously does not have enough work to keep himself busy. He should be out there making millions every day, walking the walk like a good Republican, not just talking the talk. He is living in his own cheap afternoon soap opera ! Please FITS move on to worthier topics.
Crazy is as crazy does.
It would appear the nut job is a drunk and who knows he maybe back on the blow. Glad to read he wasted a ton of cash maybe he should go down the drain searching for it.
News flash for T-Rat. His relationship with this woman is just beginning. He can now look forward to the “co-raising a child and sharing the wealth while watching her enjoy the young men that Tommy is not” phase of the relationship.
Oh, and right, she is the blame for your campaign fail just like the Feds are to blame for your cocaine problems. Say it ain’t so.
I think of innocent little “baby bitch ravenel” every time I go over your big bridge, “cousin” arthur ravenel.
“several weeks ago we stopped having anything to do with it (and him)”
…but yet you have (at least) a weekly article about him.
…a woman scorned.
If it weren’t for Mark Sanford and T Rav, this site couldn’t pay the bills. Going to start a T Rav pecker cam now? Mark’s cam sure has been profitable for you.
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise.
So now it is her fault that he will lose his campaign? Blame-shifting.
I hope she is smart enough to stay away from him.
Thomas needs to do a paternity test, if he hasn’t already. Then seek custody. The child deserves to grow up in a somewhat stable environment. Wonder if Kathryn got pregnant on purpose?
You must mean stable like in a horse stable.
So do you borrow Thomas’ drugs, or do you have your own. Kathryn is probably not the best parent in the world, but there is no way she can be worse than Thomas.
Stable environment with Him? LMAO!
Don’t know if she got pregnant on purpose or not, but one thing is damn sure, she didn’t get pregnant alone… He needs to keep in it his pants or keep a sock on it.
Why would anyone give custody to a drunken fool, who falls in a pool with his “sleeping ” baby? Not saying the mother is much better… maybe DSS should step in and find proper guardianship
“The investigators even told me that if she would have come and corroborated the accuser’s story I would be cleared,”
“The temptation of missing film time was a more a important value to her. So telling. Our relationship is over.”
There’s that choice in education in the Republican run Southern States we’ve heard so much about..
Yep…. and the show should be renamed “SOUTHERN BABBLE”
—and he wanted to be a US SENATOR..!!
HAH..!! I laugh in my grits…
He attended the Citadel.
I think he hit the bottle a little before writing the “break up” with baby mama on social media
I want every white racist to follow this story: the trash felon scion of a wealthy WASP family spends his time getting smashed (and likely high) while impregnating a woman young enough to be his daughter THEN goes about making threats and possibly domestic violence. All this with a level of defiance even Moses didn’t have.
The “master race,” everybody.
No need to be nasty. Like other races don’t offer up enough evidence of stupidity, greed, and violence every day. Read the papers or check the headlines and what do you see? Descendants of flying Egyptians…
Just for your edification.
The poor baby what’s become of her? Having parents who are so wrapped up in themselves is a horrible thing for a child to grow up with. Hope someone can save her.
“Several weeks ago” we “suspected” that it was all about reality TV ratings. Real quick on the uptake, you sly foxes…
Just another stunt for “Myrtle Manor – South of Broad Edition”
“$900k of my campaign money down the drain.”
Does anyone have a guess how that statement fits into this drama?
Because he was thiiiiis close to winning but for this erroneous police report?
900k could have went up my nose instead…damn, that could have bought alot of blow…
NIMRATA can pack an 8-ball in each nostril!
That’s a manufactured reason(and not a very good one for a man of his money) to split up with her. If I’m wrong and he really feels that way, he’ll never have a successful long term relationship.
He hasn’t been able to have a long lasting relationship yet, and he is 52/53 years old? He is a spoiled, manchild.. he will never know true love. Unless of course, you count himself
Maybe he meant to say “through the nose”
“Sources familiar with the dust-up.” Sounds like crazy Kathryn went crying back to Willy after getting dumped. Hey, maybe William Randolph can finally help her “make her mark on the S.C. political scene.”
Thanks.I need a good cry…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iABFZGzEjY
Will DSS get involved?
Miss Lindsay must be swooning with excitement. Time do do another campaign beauty pagent in Ohio.
You sure know how to pick’em, Fits.
T-Rav, PALEEEZE go away quietly.
I’m just glad the baby knew how to swim and was able to pull her drunk ass daddy out of the pool.
Not sure who will vote for this guy other than jaded Parrotheads…..
This pathetic excuse for a man is a real piece of work….
SCBlues will be happy to see he’s back on the market. :)
Rich trailer trash. Go away, idiot.
Reminds me of the Kramer…
“I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world.”
“I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges.”
“His struggle is man’s struggle. He lifts my spirit.”
“He is a loathesome, offensive brute. Yet I can’t look away.”
“He transcends time and space.”
“He sickens me.”
“I love it.”
“Me too.”
This is one of Dan Penn’s last songs,back when people actually wrote good songs.Janis was too sweet and kind ,to live in this world ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klhK_4evO5c
Geezzz! isn’t it past time for this Thomas person just to simply grow up especially now that he is a 52 year old new dada???? He “broke up” with baby mama…wow! sounds like he has yet to graduate from hi school!!!!!
These two, Ravenel and Dennis, are supposed to come from prominent South Carolinian families – and yet they act like trailer trash.
First of all, Thomas needs to go to rehab…now!
Secondly, for some reason he thinks this is 1950….she has to cook and clean and stay at home waiting for him to arrive???????????
Third, the most low-class break up on facebook since the guy broke up with Carey on a post it on Sex and the City…
This ‘SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN” treated this YOUNG lady like dirt….