POLICE were at the weekend called in to calm an ugly spat between True Love magazine features editor Melinda Ferguson and controversial businessman Theunis Crous
It all started when a "furious and cursing" Crous called Ferguson to find out why she had run a cover story about socialite Khanyi Mbau without giving him (Crous) the opportunity to comment.
Crous was apparently unhappy with Mbau's comments in the article and the fact that he never got a chance to comment.
The article allegedly at the centre of the spat will be in True Love's April edition.
Crous apparently also took to social networking site Twitter to vent his anger.
Ferguson said his "verbal abuse became so bad" that she contacted the Norwood police, who called the angry Crous and warned him not to contact her again.
Ferguson, who claims to have a case number, was asked to e-mail the police all of Crous' "libelous" tweets about her.
Crous admitted that he had tweeted: "I've been quiet, fixing my marriage, along comes this ugly b*tch from True Love mag and writes k*k about me and my wife cooked up by insane Mbau".
But Crous denied tweeting any more than that.
The celebrity gossip blog Just Curious posted seven tweets (which we cannot reprint in a family publication like this one) allegedly tweeted by Crous.
Crous said in an interview on Monday: "If anyone should lay criminal charges it's me. She cannot claim that she spoke to me when she didn't. I called her once to ask why she published a story without calling me and she said because she couldn't get hold of me. So she assumed what Khanyi told her was true.
"They are trying to provoke me."
Ferguson said yesterday that she had called Crous 14 times before the story went to print and he did not respond.
In the article Mbau told Ferguson: "Of course Theunis is an ugly man ... but I saw beyond the physical with him. I saw inside him".
Mbau is quoted as saying that she had met Crous in a parking lot in Sandton, where he had a bloodied shirt after being hit by his wife Primrose.
"...We both looked like crap, and I broke down (and cried) with him. He was a new father figure."
Norwood police were unavailable for comment.
Khanyi's ex attacks editor
POLICE were at the weekend called in to calm an ugly spat between True Love magazine features editor Melinda Ferguson and controversial businessman Theunis Crous
It all started when a "furious and cursing" Crous called Ferguson to find out why she had run a cover story about socialite Khanyi Mbau without giving him (Crous) the opportunity to comment.
Crous was apparently unhappy with Mbau's comments in the article and the fact that he never got a chance to comment.
The article allegedly at the centre of the spat will be in True Love's April edition.
Crous apparently also took to social networking site Twitter to vent his anger.
Ferguson said his "verbal abuse became so bad" that she contacted the Norwood police, who called the angry Crous and warned him not to contact her again.
Ferguson, who claims to have a case number, was asked to e-mail the police all of Crous' "libelous" tweets about her.
Crous admitted that he had tweeted: "I've been quiet, fixing my marriage, along comes this ugly b*tch from True Love mag and writes k*k about me and my wife cooked up by insane Mbau".
But Crous denied tweeting any more than that.
The celebrity gossip blog Just Curious posted seven tweets (which we cannot reprint in a family publication like this one) allegedly tweeted by Crous.
Crous said in an interview on Monday: "If anyone should lay criminal charges it's me. She cannot claim that she spoke to me when she didn't. I called her once to ask why she published a story without calling me and she said because she couldn't get hold of me. So she assumed what Khanyi told her was true.
"They are trying to provoke me."
Ferguson said yesterday that she had called Crous 14 times before the story went to print and he did not respond.
In the article Mbau told Ferguson: "Of course Theunis is an ugly man ... but I saw beyond the physical with him. I saw inside him".
Mbau is quoted as saying that she had met Crous in a parking lot in Sandton, where he had a bloodied shirt after being hit by his wife Primrose.
"...We both looked like crap, and I broke down (and cried) with him. He was a new father figure."
Norwood police were unavailable for comment.
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