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From: Brian Straight <brians@mdbs.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:38:13 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:01:03 -0400
Subject: Bell Lawsuits


Tuesday, July 27, 1999
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
Host of talk show claims threats from former guests
By Carri Geer
Review-Journal


Radio talk show host Art Bell claims two former guests have
threatened him and caused him to fear for his safety since he
filed a defamation lawsuit against them in May.

Bell obtained temporary protective orders June 21 in Pahrump
Justice Court against Colorado resident David John Oates and
Montana resident Robert A.M. Stephens.

A justice of the peace is expected to decide Aug. 19 whether
those one-month orders will be extended for a year, as Bell has
requested.

"Five witnesses have now come forward and described Oates as an
angry and potentially mentally ill individual who believes he is
Jesus Christ, uses drugs, owns firearms, may have killed in the
past, and has repeatedly threatened the physical safety of Bell
and threatened to burn down his home," according to one court
document Bell filed last week. "Absolutely nothing has changed
since this court issued its protective order that would relieve
Mr. Bell's fears."

Oates, reached Monday afternoon on his cellular phone as he
drove to a lecture in Salt Lake City, emphatically denied the
allegations, although he admitted he owns firearms.

"I don't think there's a crime in that in America, is there?"
asked Oates, a native of Australia.

Another court document, also filed last week by Bell, claims
Stephens has pledged to gather 500 people for a "sit-in" at the
talk show host's home in Pahrump.

"In addition, Stephens has continued to post threats and abusive
language on the Internet that is directed at Bell," the document
alleges.

It further claims Stephens physically abused his ex-wife, who
obtained a protective order against him in Montana. Stephens
could not be reached for comment Monday.

Oates, who bills himself as a specialist in the field of
"reverse speech" -- the analysis of taped speech played backward
-- said he was shocked when he learned Bell had obtained a
protective order against him. He has asked the court to dissolve
it.

"The protective order is absolutely ridiculous," he said. "It's
stupid. I never go to Nevada."

Oates claimed Bell sought the orders to bolster his defamation
case and garner publicity. He denied threatening Bell either
directly or indirectly.

"I have no intentions of doing any harm to Bell," he said.

Bell filed a $60 million lawsuit in May in Los Angeles County
Superior Court that accuses Oates and Stephens of slandering him
by falsely describing him as a pedophile and child pornographer.
Since then, the case has been moved to federal court, and Oates
has filed a countersuit against Bell.