Well now...
Back on March 26,
two months before Gawker first broke the story, a commentator on a Toronto blog claimed to know that Rob Ford smokes crack at the home of somebody named "Jasmin".
http://www.torontomike.com/2013/03/t...comment-234172
Quote:
Rinse
March 26, 2013 / 21:09
Here's the thing: Rob Ford DOES use crack cocaine. A friend of mine,
her mother is a serious drug addict. Rob Ford regularly goes over to
her house to smoke crack.
The problem is this: The daughter wants to expose Rob Ford's drug
abuse, but her oldschool Italian grandmother won't allow her to "bring
shame" upon the family, long story short. So basically the daughter has
become complicit with the entire thing instead of doing the right
thing. Shame on you Jasmin.
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Some guy on Reddit did some amateur internet sleuthing into the address of the house that was supposedly the scene of the photo of Rob Ford and the drug dealers. The address has been published throughout the media (e.g
this Globe and Mail story). He made an interesting -- although perhaps entirely coincidental -- discovery.
http://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comm...t_home/cad4jni
Quote:
The house on Windsor Road is officially owned by an elderly couple. The neighbours believe the husband died in the past few years and say that the primary residents of the home are the grownup children, believed to be in their 40s.
15 Windsor Rd is listed to "E Basso" in the phonebook. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/the...&pid=135696263 says Elio Basso passed away on November 6, 2009. The obituary lists Jasmine as his granddaughter. "Jasmin" is the name mentioned at http://www.torontomike.com/2013/03/t...comment-234172
Edit: Based on the names published in the Toronto Star story (after I posted this), it's the right family.
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Interestingly, "Basso" is an Italian family name, so that part at least fits in with the original claim that "Jasmin" has an "oldschool Italian grandmother".
This is hardly a smoking gun and is really on the same level of Orange Julius Guy, but I thought some of you might find it a bit interesting.