Former Grill’D investor Geoff Bainbridge paid nearly $12,000 to extortionists in the hope that video footage of him smoking ice six years ago would never become public.
Former Grill’D investor Geoff Bainbridge paid nearly $12,000 to extortionists in the hope that video footage of him smoking ice six years ago would never become public.
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Former Grill’d investor Geoff Bainbridge paid nearly $12,000 to extortionists in the hope that video footage of him smoking ice six years ago would never become public.
An Australian whisky company executive yesterday said that he has resigned after an “extortion” video reportedly showing him smoking a methamphetamine pipe was published in the national media.
The Australian newspaper released the video on its Web site, showing a shirtless Lark Distilling CEO and managing director Geoff Bainbridge smoking from a glass pipe, while talking about using “meth” and making sexual remarks to an unseen person.
The newspaper Web site warned viewers that the video might be “disturbing or offensive.”
Lark Distilling said that Bainbridge, 50, had resigned with immediate effect from his posts “to allow him to manage a personal matter