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02/08/15
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Anonymous any comment from gottie yet?
juliefox nothing from her in ages. the fbi still havent found out who she really is.
Anonymous I’m still reading through the court transcripts. I thought this bit from anya’s testimony was interesting:
Anya Saffitz: I solemnly state that the testimony I give in the case now pending before this court shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
Brandon: Mrs Saffitz, thank you for agreeing to speak to the court. I know you’ve flown back from filming on a set in Hawaii.
Anya: It’s not a problem. I’m happy to help.
Q: Let’s get right to it, then, so you can get back to work. Where were you on the night of 28th August 2014?
A: I was with Bradley Saffitz – my husband – and our children, in our home.
Q: All night?
A: Yes.
Q: Did you speak to anyone else that night? Did you receive any calls or texts that night?
A: Not that I can remember. Maybe a work call about my start-up. Or Brad had to deal with something for his talent agency. Nothing memorable.
Q: How did you come across ‘gottiewrites’?
A: Oh, someone in the audience at a ComicCon panel mentioned her blog, so I checked it out one night. I obviously didn’t realise that Gottie knew Rob in real life when I found it. I just thought she was a crazy fan.
I’d never seen anything like it – I was hooked. That night, I read everything she posted. I told the NBC publicists about it, but they just said we should leave her to it. Even though she claimed to have Rob’s address. They thought she was just making that all up. But Rob was really upset about it.
Q: Can you remember what he said?
A: He wanted it to be taken down immediately. Like, that same night in the hotel after ComicCon. He was absolutely livid. I tried to joke around about it, saying I wanted to read his old LiveJournal blog, but he just told me that obviously it wasn’t really his blog – and I was an idiot for believing her.
Q: How did Mr O’Donnell feel about the ‘gottiewrites’ blog?
A: He thought it was really funny. He texted his ex-wife to warn her that the paps might be after her again for a few weeks, because someone was stirring up ancient history online. But I don’t think he thought about it much beyond that.
Q: Did Hennings take any action against ‘Gottiewrites’ that you are aware of?
A: I don’t know. I mean, I now know what he did because Gottie posted about the comments and stolen laptop and stuff later on. But at the time, I didn’t know he was doing anything.
Q: You were spending a lot of time together for filming at the time, isn’t that right? It didn’t seem strange that Hennings was so affected by the online blog?
A: I mean, I was reading the new posts as they came out too. And it wasn’t even about me. Luckily. I can’t tell you how grateful I am that Gottie doesn’t care about me at all. She barely even mentions me in the blog. It’s a miracle that I escaped that.
Q: Did you reach out to the police after Gottie started posting about breaking into the Hennings house?
A: Before she posted saying that she’d broken in, Rob rang me to say that Nathan was missing. So the police already knew something had gone wrong by then.
Q: Did you connect the disappearance with the blog?
A: It seemed a little strange timing to me, that she would post about going there right after Nathan disappeared. So I mentioned the blog to the police when I gave a statement about where Brad and I had been on the 28th. But I don’t think they realised it was connected. I didn’t really seriously think it was, either – it was just an offhand comment.
Q: How did Rob react to the news of the victim’s disappearance? Did he seem worried?
A: Very panicked. We all were. But he was almost crazed. Very erratic.
Q: Do you believe that Rob’s behaviour during that time indicates an involvement in the death of O’Donnell?
A: What else could it have been except guilt? I’ve never seen Rob act like that. I can’t explain it in any other way. He had killed Nathan by accident, and didn’t know how to fix it.
Q: Did he seem angry at all? What was his state of mind?
Anya: Rob had been angry for weeks. I assumed it was about Gottie invading his privacy. Tensions were high. It’s easy to see how things got out of control.
Q: Did you ever have any contact with Gottie before her disappearance?
Anya: No. I don’t think it would be good for us to meet. Gottie is too tied up in everything. If she hadn’t been investigating Rob, then I strongly believe that Nathan would be alive right now. Rob was only fighting with him because she was stirring up all his secrets. I’m not saying that it’s her fault, but I don’t think I could look her in the eye. Not now, not ever.
Anonymous I just read about the Hennings trial online and had to track you down to tell you something. I used to be the assistant for an NBC exec. I heard alllll the gossip when I was there, and at the time a friend who was a runner on set told me they had heard a rumour about one of the producers who was casting Loch & Ness.
Apparently this producer was in the middle of a very expensive and harrowing divorce. His wife wanted to keep the villa in Hollywood, and get custody of both kids and the pug, and it was dragging out the settlement and costing loads of money.
Then, all of a sudden, the custody battle disappeared. The producer had found some kind of evidence that his wife had been embezzling money from him for years. He had all the proof – bank statements in her name, wire transfers to international accounts, records of purchases for expensive shoes and handbags taken directly from his savings.
The divorce went through, and a week or so later, the producer announced that this newcomer, Rob Hennings, who didn’t even have a talent agent, was going to be playing the lead role in NBC’s big new pilot. It came out of nowhere – there weren’t even any open auditions, and my friend said the casting director didn’t even get to see Hennings run a scene. It was all very strange, but Hennings nailed the script read and chemistry tests, so he got the part.
Now, I just thought that Hennings had good connections – he used to be best friends with Brad Saffitz, who runs a talent agency. But this is all making me think. What if it was bribery? Hennings could have used his connections to help get rid of the producer’s wife, in exchange for being picked for the role of his dreams.
He was obsessed with Loch & Ness, and he clearly didn’t need to worry about getting a real job if he had a big supply of mysterious bitcoin cash.
Rob is handsome and charming, after all. They might have let him have a shot at an audition, just to see how it went. It was an easy favour to give, in exchange for getting rid of the wife.
So, that’s your answer, I guess. That’s what he was doing with all that money and time. He was getting his dream job.
Anonymous I do not buy this at ALL. Get out of here. how would a conversation like that even go? “hi I wanna bribe you to be on your show, is there anything illegal you need? i can get it online and I promise I’m not an undercover cop”. Rob was just lucky and talented. this is idle workplace gossip.
An Unauthorized Fan Treatise 
Okay so I think that someone knew about Rob’s business and talked about it with the producer who then contacted Rob who decided that instead of money, he wanted a favour. As they say, it’s all about contacts and who you know. Also what a weird story from start to finish, oh boy.
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wow. insane and captivating story in such a brilliant and innovating format. please publish as a physical copy someday, would love a copy!
in regards to the interview; while gottie was her own kind of crazy, to her that Nathan’s death was COMPLETELY her fault is kind of unfair. Rob CHOSE to forge documents and put his friends at risk. Nathan wouldn’t have had a reason to be stressed in the first place if Rob never did that at all.
Anyways, kind of funny and refreshing to see that at least at the end of it, Anya and Brad have a happy little ending.
very curious about gottie! the time skip means that this is all happening in my current irl year of our lord of 2023 lol. can’t wait to read the epilogue!
Thanks for the amazing read!
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