King of All Pimps who recruited then-NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupr claims his reputation was trashed by murder claim
The self-proclaimed “King of All Pimps” draws the line at being called a killer.A notorious pimp who regularly bragged about his high-end prostitution ring — and took credit for recruiting Ashley Dupré, the hooker whose tryst with then-Gov.Eliot Spitzer ended the “Luv Guv’s” career — claimed his reputation was trashed by a YouTuber who accused him of killing a young woman 15 years ago.Jason Itzler is now a foul-mouthed Internet streamer who goes by the online name “MrBased,” known for “IRL,” or “in real life” videos of his everyday activities, often with an autistic TikToker with 3.8 million followers named Josh Block, aka “World of Tshirts,” in tow.Itzler is suing YouTuber Alex Novell for defamation after Novell posted a 30-minute video in July titled “When a Livestreamer Confesses to Murder.”The footage, narrated by Novell, outlines the still unsolved date rape drug overdose death of Wisconsin college student and aspiring model Julia Sumnicht in 2010 in Miami Beach — and includes audio of Itzler allegedly confessing to buying and providing the GHB Sumnicht took the night of her death.
“How Mr Based (Jason Itzler) got away with murdering Julia Sumnicht in Miami in 2010,” Novell, who has more than 33,000 YouTube subscribers, captioned his 30 minute video.In the film, Itzler repeatedly denies the allegations.He “has suffered severe emotional distress, mental anguish and other physical and psychological injuries” because of Novell, Itzler said in a Manhattan Supreme Court defamation lawsuit.Novell also allegedly sent someone to trespass at Itzler’s East Village home in February 2024 and “physically attacked” and “choked” him Jan.1, Itzler claimed in the litigation.
Court records show Itzler, who has 170,000 TikTok followers and an audience of 189,000 on Instagram, is facing harassment, criminal contempt and making a terroristic threat charges in two pending Brooklyn cases for allegedly threatening Novell and vio...