The situation with Copper Stallion Media is rapidly spreading, along with some misinformation (understandably—it's a weird and confusing story), so I thought I'd take you all on another miniature Twitter Down the Rabbit Hole to share what I've found. https://twitter.com/VitoGesualdi/status/1264909905414119425

This story begins a decade ago, in 2010, when a student of the Massachusetts College of Law, Jesse Clark, entered an argument over e-mail with a lawyer named Rosaleen Clayton after applying for a job with her. http://legalnews.com/detroit/1001236 

Rosaleen later posted the e-mails online, wanting to share the ridiculous exchange but censored both of their names. Of note is the line: "It’s amazing that the [Massachusetts] Bar lets women practice law. Shouldn’t you be home cleaning and raising children?"

Jesse inadvertently outed himself soon after, and news outlets picked up on the story. At first, he confirmed to journalists that he wrote the e-mails, but then he stated that Rosaleen had edited the e-mails to make him appear worse.

To get revenge on the journalists, he posted the name and phone number of one woman onto the "casual encounters" section of Craigslist, and made fake pornography ads with the faces and names of others, saying that he would only retract them if the articles were removed.

Needless to say, any chance he had in the field of law was throttled, and so, he'd need to find a new source of income. This is where the story most people know begins.

Jesse quickly set to work creating numerous wedding companies which would hire contractors to record weddings for people.

However, these companies were scams. He would refuse to pay the contractors and wouldn't cut together the videos for which the newlyweds had paid.

He was tried and convicted numerous times, but would breach his parole over and over by continuing his scams. But these scams didn't encompass all of his criminal activity.

He also has been jailed for assault, breaking a restraining order, and smashing his mother's car with a baseball bat. All of this was during or before 2013. One of his sentencings included psychiatric treatment. https://www.telegram.com/article/20130426/NEWS/104269782

Fast-forward to today. Jesse is still performing wedding scams under numerous company names, including Copper Stallion Media, the name with which everyone has become familiar.

One of his clients died in a car accident, and the husband-to-be, Justin Montney, asked for his $1,800 down payment back. Jesse refused, citing that the contract didn't allow refunds, and so Justin took to social media to complain.

Enraged, Jesse went on a scorched-earth campaign against Justin, writing in a post, "we hope you sob and cry all day for what would have been your wedding day." He also created a website specifically to shame Justin, having the Copper Stallion Media URL redirect to it.

Jesse then claimed that his "client experience manager," Allison Davis, had committed suicide due to all of the online harassment that Justin's attacks had caused. However, no other evidence of this has surfaced, and most people seem dubious.

This is most of what I found in my very cursory look, and this isn't comprehensive, but I hope it can give a bit of context.

An extra note: a bit of misinformation is spreading that Jesse discussed Allison's suicide on December 22nd, 2018, but I looked into it and it turns out that the Facebook page for Copper Stallion Media was made on December 22nd, 2018.

It's apparently common practice on Facebook to have a document that's edited frequently to make announcements, and that appears to be what happened here, creating the illusion that the announcement was made a year and a half ago.