Can Everyone Please Stop Suing Me
Andrew Thorn of “Greenback Capital" threatens Webworm... six years later.
Hi,
Over the last six years on Webworm, I have developed a working theory that shitheads tend to attract other shitheads.
I felt this strongly in the leadup to the release of Mister Organ. As Organ took me to court in an attempt to stop my documentary’s release, Sean Plunket appeared like a wet fart. More recently, after writing about Anna Wilding’s failed run for congress, her husband James Sved popped up like a fresh pimple – taking me to court and calling the American cops on me.
Now, a new legal threat... from an old Webworm nemesis.
Maybe it’s a co-incidence, but five days after I first wrote about James Sved and Anna Wilding’s legal threats, Andrew Thorn appeared with threats of his own.
If that name doesn’t ring a bell, I’m not surprised.
I last wrote about Thorn in 2020, not long after I’d launched Webworm. Back then, I wrote about a chaotic “$100,000 money drop” that went feral, and how Thorn had allegedly tried to run a business colleague over with his car.
I wrote those pieces in a much looser way than I write today, but I stand by my words. I followed that up with a Part 2, looking at Thorn’s colourful and questionable history as a music promoter. That story included a line from Thorn that I still giggle at sometimes: "We do a lot, per se, in the shadows."
My reporting six years ago ended with him sending me this DM:
Things went quiet for six years, until I started writing about Wilding’s legal threats in March. Suddenly, Thorn appeared out of the blue – asking for an address where he could serve me legal documents.
For some reason he thought I lived in New Zealand (does he not listen to Flightless Bird?), listing the address of a house I’d once rented in Auckland. That was on March 30. I didn’t reply, because there was no point.
About a month later – a new email:
