An 18-year-old Texas woman was arrested when she allegedly showed a sex tape of her and her now ex-boyfriend in the back of his truck to his friends and customers at a bar in a twisted revenge porn case.
Taylor Jewell Richard is accused of airing the lewd footage of her and Michael Bassett to patrons at the District 249 Bar & Grill in Tomball, Texas, on March 3 with intent to harm her former beau, according to an arrest affidavit viewed by The Post.
Bassett, the owner and CEO of a diesel maintenance company, owned up to recording the Valentine’s Day romp after Richard’s urging and with the “confidence” of the video not being shown to anyone outside the couple.
“She had me record it on her phone,” Bassett told KTRK. “I mean, I took those out of confidence, not thinking they would get out. I don’t got an OnlyFans or anything. I don’t sell pictures and stuff of my body.”
Bassett claimed he ended his relationship with Richard shortly after Valentine’s Day and asked her to delete the footage from her phone.
One of Bassett’s friends was at the bar, located 28 miles northwest of Houston, and alerted Bassett of Richard’s act through Snapchat.
The messages turned to joking and name-calling, including Bassett being referred to as “Mickle Pickle.”
Some of his customers took offense to the sultry videos and turned their patronage away from Bassett’s business, infuriating the self-employer.
“I can handle my friends messing with me and whatnot. I can’t handle when I start losing money,” he said.
Richard was arrested Monday night and formally charged Wednesday.
She faces one count of felony, Unlawful Disclosure of Intimate Visual Material, a crime that faces up to two years in prison if found guilty.
“(Richard) knew that said visual material was created under circumstances in which (Bassett) had a reasonable expectation that said visual material would remain private, and the disclosure of said visual material caused harm to the (Bassett,) namely by public ridicule and business customer relation damage,” the charging document read.
Richard was released on her recognizance under the condition of not making contact with Bassett.
But before being released from jail, she called him begging for the charges to be dropped.
“She was just like, ‘Are you going to drop the charges?’ And this, that, and the other. I’m like, ‘No, you have a lesson to learn,’” he told the outlet.
Bassett also warned other “young men” to not end up in a similar situation by not recording themselves.
“Tomorrow’s promised to nobody. Your relationship is not promised to you tomorrow and these women are out here can be evil,” he added.
