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usweekly.jpgFormer US Weekly editor Timothy McDarrah was sentenced to six years in prison this week following his December conviction for attempting to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. Using the email address ps41alum@aol.com (now inactive, so don't bother sending hate mail), McDarrah responded to a Craigslist post planted by the FBI and offered $200 to have sex with a barely teen-aged girl.


The FBI says McDarrah asked "What it'll cost for the cutest white 14-year-old girl with a pony tail in the whole 8th grade?" Investigators say he later communicated with 13 year-old "Julie" wanting to provide her with "sex lessons." The 45 year-old writers was convicted back in December after an eight day trial.

In the email exchanges he was unwittingly having with FBI agents, McDarrah tried to impress the fictional 13-year-old by name dropping celebrities he'd interviewed, like Rene Zellwegger and Jennifer Lopez.

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  • Stuyvesant 1980s

    I can't believe you've missed a chance to pimp Stuyvesant here. After all, Tim McDarrah taught one of the journalism electives at the school in the late 80s.

  • RatherBe

    Rico, you're just as bad as that creep.

  • Rico Starr

    Dude. 13 is totally okay. Now, 12 and you are pushing the line.

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