James "Chris" Cole is a domestic abuser and ZERO and FALLEN love him

[DISTANT RUMOURS]

I read she he had a baby recently, does that mean it's James Cole's kid? 

[BodyChocolate]

Fuck him and the stupid fucking sweatbands on his wrists. Wish him the worst.

Prod is a fucking idiot too met him at a demo and he’s 5’6 max

[roba]

I read she he had a baby recently, does that mean it's James Cole's kid? 

nah, i'm not 100% about this but i think she fucked a fan that was stalking her at her shows, like literally flying cross country to see her at every single one and he got her pregnant. dude was a virgin before too. i listened to some podcast with her when i first found out they were dating, way before all this came out.

[radcunt]

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To anyone watching who has an "informative skate content" style channel, why aren't YOU at least covering it? I can understand Thrasher or podcasts not covering it out of fear of burning bridges in the industry (still cowardly) but what do the smaller outlets / individuals have to lose?

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Where the hell is the gifted hater blast

lol no way he has the balls to cover this, it's all 'for the boys' stuff over there.

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

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Where the hell is the gifted hater blast

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lol no way he has the balls to cover this, it's all 'for the boys' stuff over there.

GH glossed over this and downplayed it when it first dropped, there’s no way he’ll eat his words and admit that he was absolutely wrong so he’s basically the same as Erica at this point …

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Where the hell is the gifted hater blast

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lol no way he has the balls to cover this, it's all 'for the boys' stuff over there.

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GH glossed over this and downplayed it when it first dropped, there’s no way he’ll eat his words and admit that he was absolutely wrong so he’s basically the same as Erica at this point …

This is neither the first nor the last time he's handwaved some obviously obnoxious shit. If you look past the whole terminally online zoomer shtick the classic Orange County white dude definitely shines through. [inb4 fanboys screaming about how he has queer friends and therefore couldn't possibly be prejudiced whatsoever].

Don't count on a content creator to be the bellwether of skateboarding.


– Obligatory FUCK James Cole –

[skunty]

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To anyone watching who has an "informative skate content" style channel, why aren't YOU at least covering it? I can understand Thrasher or podcasts not covering it out of fear of burning bridges in the industry (still cowardly) but what do the smaller outlets / individuals have to lose?

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Where the hell is the gifted hater blast

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lol no way he has the balls to cover this, it's all 'for the boys' stuff over there.

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GH glossed over this and downplayed it when it first dropped, there’s no way he’ll eat his words and admit that he was absolutely wrong so he’s basically the same as Erica at this point …

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This is neither the first nor the last time he's handwaved some obviously obnoxious shit. If you look past the whole terminally online zoomer shtick the classic Orange County white dude definitely shines through. [inb4 fanboys screaming about how he has queer friends and therefore couldn't possibly be prejudiced whatsoever].

Don't count on a content creator to be the bellwether of skateboarding.


– Obligatory FUCK James Cole –

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Miss Kansas called out domestic abuse a few days ago on stage while her abuser was in the audience. Alexis Smith an ICU Nurse won the crown and said every woman in her family has been abused too.

The skateboard industry seems afraid to make an example out of Cole because they know it will open the flood gates to more pieces of shit in the industry getting flushed.

They selfishly would rather let them get away with it, so they all can keep making money and not have any brands or legacies tarnished, rather than cleaning things up and reestablishing trust so we could at least know we can count on them to root out the bad guys, but nope.  We would have more respect for you, not less, if you called it out.

News flash to Zero, Primitive and anyone else who thinks their brands are too big to fail: you're not - especially in today's world where we can easily find 1000 other brands to back.  Companies run by people from the old days thinking it's still the same are crazy.

I won't hold my breath hoping that PRod was only hanging out with Cole to convince him to do the right thing and not just have a pool party and not talk about it.  I won't hold my breath thinking GH will speak up against this (most of his fans are too anti-cancel culture and he doesn't want to risk losing Patreon dollars). 

It always comes down to money and people being afraid of losing it, even if they're not sure they would but they play it safe anyway.

What we can count on is more strong women speaking out against it and for a select few good people to support them so they don't feel like everyone will shut them down.

ding ding ding. i just went and rewatched the stream where he talked about it on may 21st. thats the only time he talked about it extensively any other time the chat brings it up he doesn't go into it. He basically says he believes her and that Cole is a monster, but spends most of the time saying that people trying to deplatform him are lame. It's funny cuz he's always bragging about being the only person with integrity in skateboarding. he's a calculating pussy like anyone else

[ThatIsNotCricket]

His new lady is super kooky.

Talk about being desperate for attention...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9pwAPWveRm/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I love it when comedians spell out their jokes, repeat a 'punchline' a couple of times (usually incrementally slower or louder) for increased comedic effect, or just make the most mundane observations without any intent to offer a unique comedic twist on them.

[rawbertson.]

If I lived in LA and I was gifted hater I would probably want to distance myself from Cole as much as possible. He would beat the shit out of him. I think i have a better chance and he would still probably beat the shit out of me too. It is kind of sad but skateboarding the way he was doing it was obviously some sort of outlet to the insane amount of mental illness he has pent up. No sane person would jump down Wallenberg etc that many times for Zero money.

[Shtonk]

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lol no way he has the balls to cover this, it's all 'for the boys' stuff over there.

I was subscribed to his Patreon and have defendend him a bunch of times, that thread about him being a fascist was outrageous. But the way he's handled this has cemented the fact that your analysis is correct. He's increasingly pandering to his twitch audience and their incelly leanings. The actual first time he covered this is no longer available online, it was pretty fucked. The second time started out better but deteriorated into the worst possible version of him - it made me unsubscribe. Hes gotten blowback for it, one guy was pretty outspoken and tage quit the patreon, but he's been lumping all of this criticism in with the "woke cancel left" that called him a fascist on youtube and is just further cocooning into his "apolitical" false neutrality whackness. The tone on Patreon with the influx of new subscribers has definitely taken a bro-ey turn. Massive bummer because he really had the potential to actually do something for the betterment of skateboarding.

[urbneathme]

you all have very weird views on women. it's disheartening to see how excitedly you'll jump on this because it's your opportunity to tear down chris cole and be vindicated in your beliefs that his bad style means he's a bad person. then, in the same breath, you'll fully condemn his new girlfriend because at core, most of you still hate women. don't you think the abusive guy maybe knows a thing or two about gaslighting, tricking, and manipulating women?

[Texas_Tone]

you all have very weird views on women. it's disheartening to see how excitedly you'll jump on this because it's your opportunity to tear down chris cole and be vindicated in your beliefs that his bad style means he's a bad person. then, in the same breath, you'll fully condemn his new girlfriend because at core, most of you still hate women. don't you think the abusive guy maybe knows a thing or two about gaslighting, tricking, and manipulating women?

For real, I repost the accusations on every page to get the topic back to where it needs to be….Christine’s story, which I will be doing immediately after responding to this

[Texas_Tone]

I don’t want this fucker to get away with it.  I was a friend of both of theirs, although I don’t talk to Chris anymore and I am still a friend of his ex.  I am sure eventually proof will happen, but I’m not here to post that, just to tell you what I know firsthand.

He recently had a lawyer, who also represented bill cosby and Chris brown and Harvey Weinstein send her a letter accusing her of being the one who is abusive, and threatening to sue her for everything she has which isn’t much by the way if she doesn’t immediately delete her Instagram post and issue a full retraction and apology where she makes him out to be the good guy and that she is a vengeful angry and jealous ex who is mad he has moved on and is still famous and she just has a 9-5 normal life.  Imagine threatening your ex wife who you abused because she might tell the truth about what you did to her, while she is the one both of your kids live with and she is the one who is responsible for their healthcare, education, and all that.  He sees them two weekends a month and is absent otherwise.

He cheated on her MANY times, and only found out when she was 6 months pregnant with her son, and she never left because she was trying to preserve a home for the kids, that’s also why she endured the abuse.   I think she is embarrassed by this, but he also gave her an STD when she was 16 and he was 20 from cheating on her. 

When they first got together, he used to keep a printed out copy of the PA code for the statutory laws handy, in case they got pulled over together or something. 

He once threatened to kill the kids to get back at her. 

I have seen pictures of bruises, to be clear, she doesn’t have any of her face being all beat up and bruised, but there are marks elsewhere on her body from him hitting, choking, and restraining her.

He threw her down the stairs.  Twice.

(Sexual assault alert)

They got a hotel room the night of another well-known skaters wedding.  (I won’t say the name because they weren’t involved and didn’t know). He wanted to have sex after the wedding, she refused.  She woke up the next morning, and I don’t want to be too graphic here, but he clearly waited until she drunkenly passed out and raped her.  There was fluid evidence.  He told her he didn’t want to wake her up. I’ve seen the proof of him admitting to this.  He also tried to make it about himself, saying that he can’t believe he is a rapist and he should just jump out of a window instead of owning what he did. 

(Dark unaliving alert)

She tried to commit suicide a few years ago.  He found her, pulled her down from hanging, and she said she wished he left her there to die.  He proceeded to choke her and slam her head into the ground asking “is this what you want?”  While she was blacking out, she scratched his face to try to in her own words, “get his DNA under my nails so he wouldn’t get away with it”.  Cops were called.  He told her to not say anything and he’d make them go away or else they might take the kids away.  In her shell shocked state, she agreed to try to not make it any worse on the kids.  The cops arrested her for assaulting him, since he had wounds on his face.  When they got down to the station, the cops could see clearly that she had injuries, and his were consistent with defensive wounds.  The DA dropped the charges and let her go immediately.  The doctor she saw before they let her leave told her that she needed to leave him, because he was going to kill her someday. I’ve seen the very clear and explicit evidence of him admitting this in an email he wrote her at the time. This is what he is using to try and keep her silent. Its really hard to listen to when she talks about it.

I’ve seen the photos of the way he kept his house while his kids were living there. Absolutely vile. There was dog piss, mold, and just awful conditions.
He pays her 600 a month in child support now that her son is 18.  Anyone out there who pays child support knows how little that is.  I think he lied about how much he makes to try to pay as little as possible.

Bottom line I’ve seen a lot of takes in this thread that are basically “well we just don’t know what happened so let’s not crucify the guy” and I can’t prove this stuff to you myself but it is very real and will probably eventually come out. There is proof and I’ve seen it with my own eyes. I’ve worked very hard to keep my career and I don’t want risk any personal backlash so Im staying anonymous, but I am telling the truth.  I’m not saying to crucify the guy either I just think it’s ridiculous that people are defending him knowing from the inside all the stuff he’s done and I think people who support him should know what they’re backing. He tried to be a nice guy publicly, but his abuse speaks for itself.  It’s fucked up for everyone involved.

[theloniousmonk]

Is he on thunder and spitfire still?

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Is he on thunder and spitfire still?

No, he's not on either of them anymore

[Shtonk]

you all have very weird views on women. it's disheartening to see how excitedly you'll jump on this because it's your opportunity to tear down chris cole and be vindicated in your beliefs that his bad style means he's a bad person. then, in the same breath, you'll fully condemn his new girlfriend because at core, most of you still hate women. don't you think the abusive guy maybe knows a thing or two about gaslighting, tricking, and manipulating women?

I would take care not to paint any and every woman as an automatic victim. One was groomed as a teenager, the other is a grown woman in show business - I don’t think it's unreasonable or off topic to address this new woman's fairly obvious agenda. Also, this is a skateboarding forum, so while it's right and commendable to give a platform to Christine and make sure she is seen and heard, we should be primarily holding our own accountable in this and do what we can to weed out fuckers like Cole.

[Theme For A Jackal]

you all have very weird views on women. it's disheartening to see how excitedly you'll jump on this because it's your opportunity to tear down chris cole and be vindicated in your beliefs that his bad style means he's a bad person. then, in the same breath, you'll fully condemn his new girlfriend because at core, most of you still hate women. don't you think the abusive guy maybe knows a thing or two about gaslighting, tricking, and manipulating women?

I think it's fair to dislike Whitney for the things she's said and done before she was with Chris Cole which is where I'm at

[lucid beauty]

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you all have very weird views on women. it's disheartening to see how excitedly you'll jump on this because it's your opportunity to tear down chris cole and be vindicated in your beliefs that his bad style means he's a bad person. then, in the same breath, you'll fully condemn his new girlfriend because at core, most of you still hate women. don't you think the abusive guy maybe knows a thing or two about gaslighting, tricking, and manipulating women?

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I think it's fair to dislike Whitney for the things she's said and done before she was with Chris Cole which is where I'm at

cool- why bring your apparently unrelated hatred for a woman into this thread then weirdo lmao

[Shtonk]

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you all have very weird views on women. it's disheartening to see how excitedly you'll jump on this because it's your opportunity to tear down chris cole and be vindicated in your beliefs that his bad style means he's a bad person. then, in the same breath, you'll fully condemn his new girlfriend because at core, most of you still hate women. don't you think the abusive guy maybe knows a thing or two about gaslighting, tricking, and manipulating women?

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I think it's fair to dislike Whitney for the things she's said and done before she was with Chris Cole which is where I'm at

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cool- why bring your apparently unrelated hatred for a woman into this thread then weirdo lmao

Maybe because that woman is publicly "standing with" Cole and making jokes on podcasts about booking Cosby or whatever. Quit trying to score points against people just to make yourself look better. Whitney sucks and while she's not the topic of this thread, it's also not really a thing at all if some people vent their anger about her. Same thing goes for Cole's style. Ya'll starting to sound like GH with the tone policing in here. Let's be content with the fact that at least there's no more fuckwit trolls in here. In the meantime the only "constructive" option I can see is to keep spamming socials.

[bo bice]

Since when the fuck is Chris Cole dating Whitney Cummings? They both suck so I guess it’s a good fit but damn Hollywood is weird

[JamesFardy]

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you all have very weird views on women. it's disheartening to see how excitedly you'll jump on this because it's your opportunity to tear down chris cole and be vindicated in your beliefs that his bad style means he's a bad person. then, in the same breath, you'll fully condemn his new girlfriend because at core, most of you still hate women. don't you think the abusive guy maybe knows a thing or two about gaslighting, tricking, and manipulating women?

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I think it's fair to dislike Whitney for the things she's said and done before she was with Chris Cole which is where I'm at

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cool- why bring your apparently unrelated hatred for a woman into this thread then weirdo lmao

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Maybe because that woman is publicly "standing with" Cole and making jokes on podcasts about booking Cosby or whatever. Quit trying to score points against people just to make yourself look better. Whitney sucks and while she's not the topic of this thread, it's also not really a thing at all if some people vent their anger about her. Same thing goes for Cole's style. Ya'll starting to sound like GH with the tone policing in here. Let's be content with the fact that at least there's no more fuckwit trolls in here. In the meantime the only "constructive" option I can see is to keep spamming socials.

“It’s not really a thing at all if people vent their anger about her.”

I kind of see their point, little micro aggressions that make it seem like deep down you hate women and aren’t too different than Cole. See yourself out, dude.

[Atiba Applebum]

Since when the fuck is Chris Cole dating Whitney Cummings? They both suck so I guess it’s a good fit but damn Hollywood is weird

Billy Marks is married to Eliza Coupe from Happy Endings/Scrubs which is even weirder

[PatrickSkateman]

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Since when the fuck is Chris Cole dating Whitney Cummings? They both suck so I guess it’s a good fit but damn Hollywood is weird

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Billy Marks is married to Eliza Coupe from Happy Endings/Scrubs which is even weirder

Dang they both got Hollywood Fallen in love.

[Cuban_Lynx]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9x75ctyUg-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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Looks like no one did a good job at giving her the space to speak freely without interrupting her. His follow-up questions on her stories were spot-on as well. Respect.

The part about the manager reaching out yet but there being no actual change is a major indictment of how DV is handled. If there is not already, there should be some code of ethics pushing someone learning such information to be obliged to act with a duty of care towards the person in danger. No amount of money should get in the way of that.

[flintstagram]

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Full disclosure, I am still following James Cole. It is solely to try to keep tabs on this situation. I’ve believed Christine from day 1, and have commenced countering some of the trolls trying to tell a woman who lived through that that her abuser is a nice guy. Fuck them, and fuck James. Looking forward to unfollowing his bitch ass at the conclusion of all of this.

I believe Christine, and her kids.

Also, how big of a piece of shit do you have to be in order to have your 18 year old son call you on your bullshit that he witnessed you put his mother through?

Big ups to Wyatt for being more of a man than James will ever be.

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You don't have to follow him to view his posts and stories. His account isn't private. You can still keep tabs on the whole situation, including Whitney Cummings, Cole and Christine without following any of them.  Following him and whitney just gives them more power.

I grew up with a violent father, the same kind who would bash my bedroom door in, constant short temper and of course would half of the time try to be Mr Calm and Collected, especially in front of everyone but our immediate family.  When I was 18 I was scared to move out because I had a younger sibling and my mom who would be alone with him, but I got kicked out and had no choice.  Fortunately she got the courage to leave him as soon my my younger sibling moved out.

Anyway these people don't change. He started going to church and I met up with him a few years later and he had a new girlfriend who I asked how he was and she said fine but then that same night he ended up getting arrested for hitting her and I never saw his ass again. I had let all that anger go just right before he did that. He never apologized to any of us and died a few years later.  He had kids from another family I met via Facebook who said he never did anything to them, so some times these nuts are completely random or compartmentalized.  They still have victims who suffer and never get justice. They tend to get away with it overall unless they kill someone.

Very good point about not following to keep up. I foolishly thought that he’d have the “good sense” to go private as shit hits the fan, but assholes like to push the limits, so I’m sure “Mr celebrity” James Cole will stay public.

I appreciate your reality check for me, noseplant.

[lucid beauty]

Quit trying to score points against people just to make yourself look better.

[Paul Cicero]

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This is so fucked. James and anyone supporting him should be ashamed of themselves.

[Marion Stoked]

Hahah why the fuck would you guys be waiting for gifted hater to speak about it? Are you also waiting to find out what Ja Rule thinks?

Ok, some asshole from the oc offers his take on james cole and now what? We all collectively pat ourselves on the back? Nice, because I was waiting on some dude who can't skate to tell me how to feel about a grown man breaking his own adolescent daughter's door down in a fit of rage. Hell yeah.

Shoutout to Jim T. Best dude.

[Cuban_Lynx]

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This is so fucked. James and anyone supporting him should be ashamed of themselves.

I feel awful for Christine. Everyone around her must have known and just kept quiet because their income was dependent on James’ success.

I think he was on Plan B during that UIC Chicago stop. Not sure who his manager was back then, but those dudes must have known.

The next clip about @Isuck is going to be interesting. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it’s hard to believe he didn’t know what was going on.