To wonder why Ava Vidal's allegations aren't in the news? (trigger warning)

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I've recently been following the comedian Ava Vidal on twitter. Her 23 year old daughter sadly committed suicide in April and has not yet been buried. Since then, Ava has been saying on twitter that her ex-partner groomed her daughter from the age of about 11. Ava alleges that the ex wouldn't leave her daughter alone after they split up, and that things got so bad she ended up sending her daughter to live with her mother (i.e., the daughter's grandmother) in Barbados when she was 15. The ex then followed the daughter out to Barbados, where he allegedly ingratiated himself with the family, and continued his relationship with her daughter, even taking her on trips to the US.

At some point Ava became estranged from her daughter. When the daughter was 18, she moved back to London and moved into the ex's house. She started using the ex's surname, and he refers to her as his daughter. Ava says that the ex got her daughter into drugs and prostitution. Ava is now involved in a court case with he ex over control of her daughter's body and right to bury her. She has been saying that a Tory donor is bankrolling her ex's case.

This has hardly been in the news, and I'm really not sure why. I get that these are all unproven allegations and the media have to be careful about reporting around legal cases, but it seems strange to me that it's had so little coverage - even before the MeToo stuff papers have run stories about allegations before (Woody Allen, for example) and Ava is relatively well-known, not megastar famous but famous enough. The media could easily report on it and just use the word 'allegedly', couldn't they? They do that all the time. I don't think I'm explaining this very well but there's something about the lack of coverage that makes me uneasy and I can't put my finger on why. What makes these allegations different to other allegations?

The only thing that has been in the mainstream media is this article in the DM just over a week ago, along with a similar one in the Sun: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6222831/Third-mystery-death-linked-celebrity-mental-health-clinic-year.html
regarding the inquest into her daughter's death at a private hospital. It identifies the Tory donor as her daughter's 57-year old 'boyfriend', and refers to the ex as her 'unofficial stepfather', but there is no mention of Ava's allegations.

Some of Ava's tweets can be read here threadreaderapp.com/thread/1032872193791799296.html
and
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1007896057962024960.html

the window lickers who love a good bit of tragedy porn and a juicy conspiracy

i assume that's a dig at me, FlyingElbows. I realise why you would think that, but genuinely, I think something sinister went on and I hope that Ava gets justice, that's all.

I think that there is a wider public interest here - the ex-partner is a comedian too. As it happens, I hadn't heard of him before this story, but he appears to be well-known to those who are into comedy even f he's not generally well-known. He works behind the scene a bit more, and apparently quite powerful on the circuit.

Also, if the allegations are true, and a Tory donor is complicit in the coercive control of young women, then surely that's in the public interest?

So this case was heard yesterday and Ava lost with the judge decreeing that the ceremony should be shared between ava and the biological father.
No word on the potentially slanderous allegations made against Gordillo though.
And the racist remarks from her Twitter supporters about white men who should stay away from black women.

Ok found it. Might report my post as someone can't be named and the only names in the article are Ava and Edgar.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=window%2blicker&amp=true

For a pp - window licker is highly offensive and a revolting term to use