Gordon Gossage: Libel Troll For Hire, Tax Cheat, Coke Addict

Steph Cat
Steph Cat
Nov 7 · 6 min read

In the #metoo era, the time has come for those of us victimized by a pathological liar and creep named Gordon Gossage to stand up for ourselves.
This is our story.

We are a group of mostly women and some men who have endured endless personal and reputational abuse from Gordon Gossage. Several years ago, he was hired to intentionally defame us, and engaged in routine character assassination. We felt powerless. We tried to fight back, but Gordon Gossage had insulated himself from his victims.


The story begins when Gordon Gossage was hired, and admits to being hired, by a group who wanted to boost the rideshare industry while trying to harm the taxi industry. Here’s proof (identifying information redacted to protect the innocent and others involved):

The people who hired Gordon told him he could do whatever he wanted, including lying about anyone and anything. He did just that.

Gordon Gossage literally made up stuff just because he could, with the only goal to harm other people, and he admitted it all.

Almost every single thing he posted was either a complete lie or some crazy paranoid fantasy because he was (and may still be) a coke addict (see below).

If you have come across anything he has written, you now know he was paid to do it and it became a major power trip because he was invincible.

He was invincible because the internet doesn’t care if people get defamed. If you are a victim of defamation, as we all were, you first have to ask the perpetrator to knock it off. Gordon refused.

Then you have to send a “Cease and Desist” letter. Not only did Gordon Gossage ignore all of these, he took some, changed the words and information in them, and posted them to make the victim look bad.

Then you are faced with having to ask the website that hosts the defamatory statements to remove the material, but they won’t do it without a court order.

Going to court is expensive and time-consuming, and Gordon Gossage knew that. Even if there were judgments against him, he could hide whatever money he had, and ignore court orders to take down the defamatory content.

Even worse, he boasted about it to us victims!

So there it was. We felt powerless while this sociopath trashed us, making up lie after lie after lie. It almost seemed like a game to him, as the lies just became more and more outlandish to see how far he could go and still have readers believe him.

Some of us got it much worse than others. When Gordon decided to pick on someone, he really went all out. The lies and fictions could be outlandish but they could also be clever, written just right so that they seemed real to anyone who didn’t know what he was writing about or why.

There was only one group that got him to shut up, and it was Lyft, ironically. Too bad Lyft didn’t stand up for the rest of us.


Why did Gordon Gossage do all this, besides the money and the power? We believe he needed the money desperately to feed a coke addiction.

Coke addicts have a sense of invincibility. They don’t care about consequences of their actions. They certainly don’t care who they hurt in their own lives, so why would they care about other people they don’t even know, but have been paid to hurt? Gordon Gossage needed the money to get high, so we think he wanted to show his employers he was doing a good job.


Gordon Gossage may have blown all his money up his nose and that long addiction is probably why he has been a tax cheat all his life. Here are documents from Massachusetts.

First, Gordon Gossage lost his house on 10/18/1983 because he couldn’t or wouldn’t pay a tax bill of only $224.79. Maybe he spent it all on coke.

He also lost the house next door for failing to pay $2,006.24.

We think those houses were really important to him, because he somehow got them back and then lost that SAME house again AND the house next door AGAIN on 6/29/1984 for not paying $107.13 on the first and $887.17 on the second.

You would think the county had enough of Gordon Gossage, but then it looks like he convinced his mother to buy the first house back and put him on the title, only to sneak out on property taxes AGAIN on 10/6/87. This time he lost the house for failing to may just $142.74. Mommy must’ve been pissed!

Gordon Gossage’s tax evasion problems continued. Suffolk County put a lien on yet another house on 1/17/2002 (guess he still had addiction problems):

Then Gordon Gossage got into massive tax trouble, even worse than what came before. He apparently didn’t pay his federal income taxes in 2010, 2012 and 2013, and then got yet another lien against his home on 11/20/2014. The total federal tax lien was just over $60,000 and the home lien was for $11,735.88.

By now, he was on his second marriage. We think that these tax problems and everything that probably helped cause them are why his second wife kicked him out. Shortly after that, he left Boston and abandoned his two daughters to go live in the wilderness outside of Reno.

Shortly thereafter, he crashed his car.

Today, he is apparently living off the grid in Nevada and is a registered lobbyist for some company called YIMBY and Regenesis Reno. We sure hope that those companies know who they’ve hired to represent them.

So that is our story about Gordon Gossage. We tried everything and in the end, all we could do is tell the world about him to expose him for the lies and horrible mistruths he spread about us.

All we can say is not to believe a darn word he prints or anything he says. He was paid to lie and admits it all.

At least you know who and what Gordon Gossage is.

The End.

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