Jeffree Star addresses \u201cpredator\u201d accusations against James Charles Jeffree Star, James Charles – YouTubeYouTuber and makeup mogul Jeffree Star has addressed claims made against fellow beauty guru James Charles in 2019, where he accused the young entertainer of \u201cpredatory\u201d behavior. James Charles notably came under fire in May 2019, after mentor and fellow YouTuber Tati Westbrook accused her protegee of using his fame to manipulate the sexuality of straight men, among other accusations. This led to a slew of comments from other creators in YouTube beauty space addressing the topic \u2014 most notably from Jeffree Star, who dubbed Charles a \u201cdanger to society\u201d in a now-deleted Tweet, where he also admitted to banning him from his home. That\u2019s not all: Star even called Charles a \u201cpredator\u201d in a deleted Tweet response to the YouTuber\u2019s 17-year-old brother Ian Jeffrey, appearing to tie his move back to New York City as part of Charles\u2019 alleged behavior. However, Charles later came out with a video debunking Tati\u2019s claims, leading to backlash against Tati and the resurgence of the thousands of subscriber\u2019s he\u2019d lost \u2014 as well as an apology video from Star. Despite a year having passed since the scandal, Star\u2019s \u201cpredator\u201d accusations against Charles were brought up once more in an April 2020 episode of the FaZe Banks\u2019 \u2018Mom\u2019s Basement\u2019 podcast, causing Star to clarify his stance on the topic. \u201cThe truth is that someone \u2014 and right now, I legally can\u2019t say who \u2014 told us a few things,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd we trusted that person\u2019s opinion. And then another person said some things that was friends with that man, and it really convinced us that he was a predator.\u201d (Topic begins at 43:50 for mobile readers) That\u2019s not all: Star went on to call one of his sources a \u201cvictim\u201d of Charles, and even claimed to have potential evidence of the accusations on his phone, but ultimately held back from exposing his sources\u2019 identities for fear of legal backlash and uncertainty over the truth of the matter. Since the podcast episode aired, critics have hit back at Star for seemingly lying about his previous accusations against James Charles \u2014 but he clarified that they have no drama between them, and even invited the \u201cInstant Influencer\u201d host for a chat to discuss the scandal. For now, all fans can do is watch and wait to see if Charles accepts his invitation a year after dramageddon struck the beauty community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jeffree Star addresses \u201cpredator\u201d accusations against James Charles Jeffree Star, James Charles – YouTubeYouTuber and makeup mogul Jeffree Star has addressed claims made against fellow beauty guru James Charles in 2019, where he accused the young entertainer of \u201cpredatory\u201d behavior. James Charles notably came under fire in May 2019, after mentor and fellow YouTuber Tati […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}