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Going after Jezebel Brother

The lawyer who brought down Gawker with Hulk Hogan is now taking aim at its sister blog, Jezebel.

Hogan’s attorney Charles J. Harder filed a defamation suit Thursday against the women’s website for labeling a bizarre therapy group called Superstar Machine a “cult” — and claiming its leader, Gregory “International” Scherick, “preyed on insecure women and controlled their lives.”

In an expose published May 10, 2016, former Superstar members told Jezebel they believed they were duped into joining a “cult that preys on its members’ insecurities, exploits them financially, and isolates them.”

They claimed Superstar’s goal was to “serve the masculine” — and that Scherick “cultivated a group of women who served as his seconds-in-command, and whose role is to praise him, back up his decisions, and remind everyone coming into the group that they needed to give him ‘a good experience.’”

Wonder if he will get the backing of the silicon valley billionaire this time.