During that time, we had noticed how GR would regularly "friend" our CIRCUS fans and suspected that it was to interfere with our audience connection. He looked at our staff as free labor for him while we made all of the investments of time, money, work, sacrifice, problem solving, etc. GR did nothing, yet he wanted to collect any "reward" that came from our productivity.

One of the last disagreements between GR and our staff came when we took action to protect the CIRCUS brand and our fans from being ripped off by bootleg t-shirt merchants. We wanted to send "cease and desist" letters to those who were making money by selling counterfeit CIRCUS items and then legally proceed to stop it.

But GR didn't want that, which made us question if he was involved in the bogus t-shirt sales. It would be bad if he was caught making money by selling "Circus" products again after he'd already declared bankruptcy to his creditors with the original company that he folded. The numbers of people who lost their money because of GR would want it all back if they learned he was doing that.

By the way, for the fans who have written to us saying that they’d paid for a subscription to CIRCUS in the 2000’s but never received the magazines or a refund of their money: we were not with the company at that time, so go after GR to rightfully get your dollars back.

When CIRCUS administrators refused to ignore the fake t-shirt sales problem, GR decided to leave our team in March 2018 without notice and went solo with his version of Circus Magazine in an attempt to steal our audience. GR tries to persuade people to take his side in this matter, so they must think for themselves and research/verify any information from both parties.

For example, check the starting date on his "Circus" sites and you'll see that they've all been created in the last 12 months. From 2006 to 2018 he had 12 years to start these. Why didn't he begin sooner during that time period if there wasn't already a legitimate CIRCUS Magazine existing that he was a part of?

People have commented to us about the sloppy work and poor quality pictures that GR uses at his pages. Since he only has what we gifted him in CIRCUS content, GR takes images from the internet and from our CIRCUS Magazine pages - explaining why we had to further watermark our back issues. There's no comparison between our production and his.

GR never helped us in any way to get CIRCUS back off of the ground because he was too absorbed with being a novel writer. In fact, he's been holding us back from bringing CIRCUS to the world once again. It angers GR that someone else will be known as the owner of the company he used to run.

In his jealousy-crazed attempts to discredit us, GR began stalking our sites and commenting on posts with lying rants - so we had to block him from visiting there anymore. Now he constantly creates multiple fake accounts on different social media outlets (as a backdoor to gain access to our pages after banning him) to cause problems for us: sending numerous letters to our followers as "Circus Magazine" and making false claims against us while hiring trolls to harass us. We’re taking notes on their identities and are planning action.

Regardless of the troubles, the CIRCUS Magazine admins have worked tirelessly on this project for over a decade without pay (everyone works a second job) and have gone into debt because of the costs: repurchasing the entire 1966 - 2006 HULLABALOO/CIRCUS archive in mint condition from collectors (some issues were bought multiple times because the first ones had pages missing or were damaged); hiring and paying people (some new, some original staffers) to get the multitude of jobs done; outfitting the offices with computers, scanners, equipment & furniture; and more.

Unlike GR who wastes his final days posting untrue statements about us on his pages, this will be the only time we wish to speak on this because we know the majority of people don’t care about what goes on behind the scenes. This was written only to inform those who were interested in the truth of this matter.

We're greatly displeased by GRs harmful actions against us and feel betrayed that he'd intentionally damage us after all that we'd done for him over those seven years. GRs disrespect will not be tolerated and he must repair everything that he’s destroyed. Our fans have shown their disapproval of his behavior by unfollowing/unliking GRs pages, because doing so will diminish his ability to attack us.

Once those kinds of distractions are removed, we can continue forward with our delayed plans. Our staff are eager to reveal their 2024 Best of CIRCUS Magazine 55th Anniversary issue, along with a list of other overdue items. We’re grateful to the CIRCUS fans for their faithful support over the years and are dedicated to providing them with the CIRCUS Magazine that they deserve.

Producer & Lead Admin.
3/24/19