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Dresses worn by Sam Brinton were destined for fashion show,
designer claims
By Andy Tillett and Katherine Donlevy, NYPost
February 23, 2023 8:30pm Updated
A Houston designer claims she had to cancel a fashion show after her bag full of the custom-made pieces was lost at a Washington DC airport – only for them to seemingly resurface years later being worn by former Department of Energy official Sam Brinton.
Asya Khamsin filed a lost luggage report after her bag containing 30 original designs disappeared from Ronald Reagan Washington Airport in DC on March 9, 2018, meaning she had to pull out of the planned show.
Several years later, the native Tanzanian designer stumbled on photographs of Brinton – who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns – wearing what appeared to be the same original custom dresses.
Speaking from Zanzibar, Khamsin told The Post: “I was thinking, ‘Who took my bag, where is it?’ for a long time. Then I see images of the outfits [being worn by Brinton] and I was so confused and upset.
“I was thinking, where did he get those clothes – because I didn’t think he was a thief.”
Khamsin also posted a series of pictures online showing the disgraced former Department of Energy official wearing elaborate dresses side-by-side with her missing dress designs, which look identical.
Head of Advocacy The Trevor Project Sam Brinton speaks onstage during The Trevor Project TrevorLIVE NYC at Cipriani Wall Street on June 11, 2018 in New York City.
Khamsin does not accuse Brinton of stealing the clothes or her luggage from the Washington DC airport, but said she is confused how they ended up in their possession.
Why not? It would be true to his character. But this case suggests that Brinton may be very diligent in choosing which luggage to steal.
The designer explained the dresses and jewelry had originally been displayed at the Lady In Red fashion show she runs in Dar es Salaam and said she was passing through Washington DC to show them on her way home to Houston when her case disappeared. She shared her conversations with officials about the lost luggage with Fox news.
Brinton, 35, served as the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy, but was fired after they were charged with stealing a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport and another woman’s bag from a Las Vegas airport over the summer.
Brinton wearing an outfit that Khamsin claims is from her luggage at an event on December 3, 2018.
Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for The Trevor Project
In both cases, Brinton had traveled on flights from Washington DC before allegedly swiping the bags from the airports’ baggage carousels.
After seeing Brinton wearing what she believes is her stolen garb, Khamsin filed a report with the Houston Police Department on Dec. 16. The next month, she claims she was contacted by the agency’s field office in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She added: “I don’t know if I would like the clothes back. The investigation is in good hands with the FBI. I’m waiting on them, they will do the right thing.”
Your faith in the FBI, Aysa, exceeds my own by some considerable margin. Good luck.
Police probing possible revenge porn case of former
NY1 weatherman Erick Adame
By Natalie O'Neill, NYPost
March 1, 2023 4:21pm Updated
Cops are investigating who leaked live-streamed porn images of former NY1 weatherman Erick Adame, according to a report Wednesday.
The Emmy-nominated but now out-of-work meteorologist told WNYC he believes a mystery voyeur became obsessed with distributing nude images of him in an apparent effort to embarrass him.
“I concluded, it’s the same person that is just obsessed with posting these pictures of me,” he said in his first interview since the scandal led to his firing.
“Some of them are so humiliating.”
Adame, 39, has since hired a lawyer to get the IP address of the person who posted the images online.
Police are also probing the leak, the station said, though it was not revealed which department is conducting the investigation.
Adame lives in New Jersey, NY1 is based in Manhattan and his mother, who was sent some of the dirty images, lives upstate.
Erick Adame, the former NY1 weatherman, circulated around the internet resulting into him losing his job.
Instagram/Erick Adame
It was also unclear what law enforcement could do, as the images may not qualify as “revenge porn,” the radio station reported.
Under New York law, a person must have a “reasonable expectation of privacy,” and live-streaming may not be protected.
The ex-weatherman was fired in September after images of him live-streaming sex acts were taken from an adult website without his permission.
It soon emerged that he mentioned his job and other personal details during a camming session made in December 2021.
Adame apologized and admitted that he had a “compulsion,” saying it was “absurd of me to think I could keep this private.”
Proud, or embarrassed for being gay?
Since his embarrassing public firing, Adame told WNYC he has been harassed by sadistic trolls online.
“There is a mixture of support and then you’d have this random message calling me whatever name to degrade me and then saying you want some more? I can be your daddy,” he said.
“You know —no. I just lost this job that I really loved. I’m being publicly humiliated and you think I enjoy this?”
He also opened up about the root of his compulsion to make live sex videos for strangers on the internet, confessing it stemmed from “low self-esteem” from being rejected for being gay.
Is that really his reason, or his excuse? It's hard to imagine someone being on TV every day has low self-esteem. The sex videos suggest he was more likely proud of his gayness.
“Showing off and getting that type of praise and being called sexy, I wanted to see more. Hearing that from someone on the other end made you feel so good,” he said.
Now, he says, he’s in a committed relationship and that his sex life no longer involves the internet.
Ultimately he said he regrets camming while hedging on whether he thinks his firing was fair.
“I don’t apologize for being sex positive — but I apologize because I am a role model, ” he said. “What it comes to is, as a news person, I live under different rules. I don’t think that’s fair, but I think that we do.”
It's the first time I have encountered that term - sex-positive! I don't know what it means, but I suspect it is not something good.
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