
Try working that into a Barney & Friends song. But it’s okay though, Joyner claims that he is regularly tested for STDs and provides certificates to his clients as proof. Barney the Dinosaur is having unprotected sex with strangers, for money, in his tantric sex den. Condoms ‘block the energy’, he says, and he prefers not to use them.” “For clients, a ‘higher and more blissful state of awareness’ is often best achieved through penetrative, ideally unprotected sex, according to Joyner. The super talented voice actor is reportedly worth an estimated 950,000 as of today. In 2000, West retired from voicing Barney and was replaced by voice actor Duncan Brannan. The 'bashing' came in the form of violently destroying Barney merchandise, spreading rumors - including one claiming that Barney actors hid drugs in the costumes tail - and even death. This excerpt from Vice’s investigation actually gave us the chills: 7 Bob West Bob West was the original voice of Barney from 1988-2000 and can be said to have set the precedent for those who came after him. Going against the very nature of tantric sex, which seeks to avoid that method. Joyner’s sessions actively encourage vaginal intercourse. Look, tantric sex itself is a very creative, enjoyable alternative to penetrative sex… What’s Barney the Dinosaur doing these days? Oh…īut this is why it’s so weird. In a week that also saw a Teletubby die and claim our last shred of youthful exuberance, we’re now finding out that Barney has a seedy side to him. “Barney was acting boss up until his conviction in 1997, but since then, he has not had any role in the affairs of the Genovese crime family,” Levin said.ĭescribing Bellomo’s life behind bars, Levin told Kaplan the former mob big “has changed his life.We shit you not. In a breach of the Mafia’s oath of silence, Bellomo acknowledged in court papers last week that he once ran the Genovese crime family – but claimed he found religion in prison and dropped out of the mob. The powerful wiseguy has spent the past 11 years behind bars on a previous racketeering case and was due to be released in August 2008 without the new sentence. Attorney Miriam Rocah told Kaplan at the time. It was a bitter pill for us to swallow,” Assistant U.S. Kaplan had initially threatened to reject the sweetheart deal when he first heard about it last month, but the judge changed his view when prosecutors admitted they doubted their ability to win a conviction. This case was a fiction,” said his lawyer, Barry Levin.

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I promised a miracle,” Bellomo’s mother-in-law told the gangster’s four kids, including daughter Sabrina Bellomo, a lawyer who helped with her father’s defense.īellomo, 50, pleaded guilty to defrauding a Bronx carting company of more than $400,000 between 1992 and June 10, 1996, and agreed to serve up to 3½ years behind bars if prosecutors dropped charges that he authorized a 1998 hit on mob associate Ralph Coppola – a racketeering murder that the feds initially considered for the death penalty.īut federal prosecutors admitted their murder case against Bellomo fell apart when witnesses got cold feet and a key piece of evidence vanished from a prison storage facility. Joyner was originally cast to play Barney in two Barney & The Backyard Gang home videos, but continued to play Barney in the TV series Barney & Friends during. Jailed Genovese boss Liborio “Barney” Bellomo got his prayers answered when a judge sentenced him to just one additional year behind bars in a racketeering and murder case that was once considered for the death penalty.īellomo’s family members wept in relief yesterday as Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan doled out a 41-month prison term, but allowed the former mob leader to serve all but one year in conjunction with the sentence he is now serving on a previous case.
