UPDATE: Scout Willis Calls IvyGate, Deletes Secret Twitter Account, Has No Comment

by | March 8, 2012 at 6:13 pm

Earlier this afternoon, Brown student and miniature celebrity Scout Willis ’13 (pictured right, with her mom, Demi Moore) left IvyGate a breathless voicemail demanding that we call her back. Shortly after that, she deleted the secret Twitter account we reported as her own. We soon returned Scout’s call, and in the ensuing conversation she told IvyGate that she had “absolutely no comment” because we “had already made enough assumptions for today.”

To Scout’s credit, the conversation was rather civil—quite unlike the unfiltered id known as @BOUGPUNK.

(Around the same time of our call the National Enquirer rewrote our original story under the headline “TWEETY PIE EYED! DEMI & BRUCE DIRTY DAUGHTER SCOUT.”)

Also: One of IvyGate’s attentive readers commented that no, no, no: Scout’s Twitter account was a satirical final project for a class at Brown:

Get some journalistic integrity, dude. This twitter was a final project for a class last semester that was 100% satire.

100% satire. Right. If so: for which class? Taught by which Brown professor? Do you know? Email us immediately. As in right now. For the time being, we will ignore the absurd idea that @BOUGPUNK would actually pass for a final project at Brown, or anywhere in higher education. And I guess you can ignore the fact that Scout’s Twitter feed commenced in late October of last year and continued until late last month. Because that totally sounds like a final project.

Even if Scout’s secret Twitter was some kind of final project (or belonged to one), even if she intended it to be satire (which it’s not—really, Scout doesn’t understand satire) then MAYBE IvyGate’s coverage is the point of the whole project. Of course! That was the idea of that Yale abortion art thing, right? Why not? Expect a Shvartsian essay in the Herald tomorrow.

 
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  • Glenn_barrett

    would someone make something like this if it was really their personal twitter??????? look at the date when this was created, get real asshole
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB57Cq-_6SE

    you are fucking with a young girl’s life here

    • Guest

      So you mean that IvyGate really should have made the article about Scout making up lies and trying to ruin Terry Richardson’s reputation by saying that he tried to finger her? Maybe you could write some great article about this, Glenn_barrett, since you are so concerned with people f***ing with the lives of other people!

  • Allona vasquez

    if this is in fact a project, which seems highly likely given how outrageous those tweets are, you could be falsely damaging this poor kids whole future.
    For you this is just a story, but this is someone’s life, this is low.
    like really really low 

  • Ekimnotlad87

    Why are people angry that a website is reposting the tweets? Isn’t the point of Twitter to make statements that have the potential to be shared infinitely through followers who re-tweet? If a person doesn’t want to the subject of Internet journalism, don’t produce a seemingly endless string of outrageous comments. Outrageous comments attract attention, and there’s no guarantee that it will be good attention.

  • heh

    JK Trotter, you are wretched human being. I’m sure you’ve realized by now that the joke’s on you. In the future, at least use your real name when publishing such filthy slander. 

  • Truth

    The comments on here are an absolute joke. To even imply that this was because of a “final project” is preposterous. That twitter was pure filth and degenerate style writing. I’m at a loss as to why she’d pretend to be so offended now…she was clearly proud to brag about how she fills her time. I don’t care who her parents are, she is just another drunk, drugged out, whored out, messy, dirty cliché. The sad part…is all that wasted MONEY!

    • Buck Frown

       Saving your top tier material for the comments section, Trotter?

      • http://ivygateblog.com/ J.K. Trotter

        Ha! This is the kind of comment I like!

        Unfortunately, no, I didn’t write that comment. I also disagree with it: I think Scout’s Twitter was in fact for a class (I think it was called Electronic Writing) but that its authors included a lot of their actual lives. Alcohol, weed, etc are not controversial in themselves; bragging about them behind a pseudonym on Twitter, as a celebrity child, then saying you never did those things, however, is pretty newsworthy.

  • Anon

    This is an example of tabloid reporting being so shallow that there is no way it could comprehend any slightly elevated form of satire, creatively and wit. The twitter is obviously making fun of other people who would think and act as ridiculously as the tweets suggest. Satirizing the “bourgeois punk” hollywood kids who look/act hard but still get allowance from their parents and drive mini coopers. Take a joke IvyGate, the twitter is laughing at you… and you don’t even see it.

  • bobby

    I’ve met this girl and i can promise you she is as DIRTY AS THEY COME