I would appreciate some backstory on this Ben person. I've only heard the Opster briefly mention this, not even you guys bring this up often. Was it as bad as its been made to sound?
Produced for O&A after Rick Delgado and before Steve. He sprayed liquid ass on the back of the Stern fans neck during the incident. Lied about it to lawyers saying he never did such a thing and got fired for it.
I’m speculating here but I think his hatred of Opie is the whole “He didn’t go to bat for me” turned up to 11. We know from Steve C that when Steve was fired O&A didn’t say shit to him and avoided him. They probably did the same to Ben and he felt shafted. Ben was a known cokehead and mental case who threatened to “knock Jim’s teeth out” on air.
He was harassing Opie and his wife for years because of this. He would send him text messages (like Patricks stlakers). Eventually he shopped around the lie that Lynsi had a sex tape with Bam Margera. He got Chaunce Hayden, who was a huge Howard guy at the time, to write a bullshit article about it. Lyndsi and Opie sued both of them for libel and lost.
Later on post-Greggshells, Anthony had Ben Sparks at one of his parties. Anthony talked massive shit about Opie, of course, so Ben felt empowered enough to start texting Opie again. This led into ANOTHER lawsuit where Ben was forced to pay a fine and given a restraining order.