{"id":193439,"date":"2025-09-16T20:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/seth-dillon-babylon-bee-ceo-denies-making-threats-to-charlie-kirk-following-candace-owens-claim\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:55:49","slug":"seth-dillon-babylon-bee-ceo-denies-making-threats-to-charlie-kirk-following-candace-owens-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/seth-dillon-babylon-bee-ceo-denies-making-threats-to-charlie-kirk-following-candace-owens-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Dillon: Babylon Bee CEO Denies Making &#8216;Threats&#8217; to Charlie Kirk, Following Candace Owens Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Less than 36 hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/09\/donald-trump-to-award-presidential-medal-of-freedom-to-charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charlie Kirk was shot and killed <\/a>during a speaking engagement in Utah, his alleged assassin was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>And while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/09\/tyler-robinson-allegedly-confessed-to-charlie-kirk-shooting-in-discord-chat-revealed-motives-in-text-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the case against Tyler Robinson<\/a> seems fairly open-and-shut, many remain convinced that there\u2019s more to the story.<\/p>\n<p>Some believe Robinson had accomplices, while others are convinced he was a pawn in a vast conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>The discourse surrounding Kirk\u2019s death has now been further complicated by shocking claims from conservative pundit Candace Owens.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1372824081-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Candace Owens speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at The Rosen Shingle Creek on February 25, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. \" class=\"wp-image-535391 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1372824081-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1372824081-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1372824081-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1372824081-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1372824081-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1372824081-1-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1372824081-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1372824081-1-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Candace Owens speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at The Rosen Shingle Creek on February 25, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Owens has made a career out of courting controversy, and now, she\u2019s positioned herself at the center of the year\u2019s biggest news story.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Owens and Kirk were close friends, so her motives in all of this might be pure.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t make her recent remarks any less incendiary.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-candace-owen-says-charlie-kirk-faced-threats-bribes-over-israel\">Candace Owen says Charlie Kirk faced \u2018threats,\u2019 bribes over Israel<\/h2>\n<p>On Monday, Owens posted an hour-long episode of her podcast that has already been viewed nearly six million times.<\/p>\n<p>In it, she alleges that Kirk faced pressure from powerful individuals within the conservative sphere, particularly billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Seth Dillon, CEO of the satirical news site The Babylon Bee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week was not a dream. Charlie Kirk, my friend, is dead. He was publicly executed. And as we\u2019re all searching for answers, a lot of the ones that are being supplied to us are not making sense,\u201d Owens said at the start of the episode.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"They Are Lying About Charlie Kirk. | Candace Ep 235\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/czVBmqZP6Ss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>From there, Owens alleged that during a \u201ctense\u201d lunch meeting in the Hamptons over the summer, Dillon and Ackman tried to coerce Kirk into showing his support for Israel by visiting the county.<\/p>\n<p>Owens says that Kirk had been experiencing a change of heart regarding his support for Israel\u2019s war against Palestine, and that he had previously been contacted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>According to Owens, \u201cthreats were made\u201d as part of a high-pressure \u201cintervention\u201d to get Kirk to double down on his pro-Israel stance.<\/p>\n<p>She also alleges that some of the interested parties resorted to bribery.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"1148\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Dillon (Left) attends the DailyWire+ Red Carpet Premiere of \" lady=\"\" ballers=\"\" on=\"\" november=\"\" in=\"\" nashville=\"\" tennessee.=\"\" class=\"wp-image-535390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-960x646.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-1080x726.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-1200x807.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"1148\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Dillon (Left) attends the DailyWire+ Red Carpet Premiere of \" lady=\"\" ballers=\"\" on=\"\" november=\"\" in=\"\" nashville=\"\" tennessee.=\"\" class=\"wp-image-535390 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-960x646.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-1080x726.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678-1200x807.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1822518042-scaled-e1758056119678.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seth Dillon (Left) attends the DailyWire+ Red Carpet Premiere of \u201cLady Ballers\u201d on November 29, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Jason Davis\/Getty Images for Bentkey Ventures)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI know that Charlie was offered a significant amount of money during that time \u2014 a ton of money,\u201d Owens said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-who-is-seth-dillon\">Who is Seth Dillon?<\/h2>\n<p>In 2018, Dillon purchased The Babylon Bee \u2014 a conservative, Christian alternative to news satire sites like The Onion \u2014 from its founder, Adam Ford.<\/p>\n<p>Seth and brother Dan Dillon have been primarily in charge of the site and its content ever since.<\/p>\n<p>He and Ackman have both <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1968040602039169391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded on X <\/a>to the claims Owens made about their meeting with Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon stated that he was invited to a Hamptons retreat by Kirk, but \u201cif there were any private meetings, I wasn\u2019t in them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ackman accused Owens of \u201cslander,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BillAckman\/status\/1967752970260349095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing<\/a>, \u201cFor the record, at no time have I ever threatened Charlie Kirk, Turning Point or anyone associated with him. I have never blackmailed anyone, let alone Charlie Kirk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/09\/seth-dillon-babylon-bee-ceo-denies-making-threats-to-charlie-kirk-following-candace-owens-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes Less than 36 hours after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during a speaking engagement in Utah, his alleged assassin was arrested. And while the case against Tyler Robinson seems fairly open-and-shut, many remain convinced that there\u2019s more to the story. Some believe Robinson had accomplices, while others are convinced he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}