The Philippine Entertainment Portal has issued a statement yesterday, March 30, 2009 regarding a report published on the news site at around 4:15pm saying that Richard Gutierrez and Michael Flores had a confrontation.
The report said that the confrontation happened after the two attended director Mark Reyes’ birthday celebration at the Oceana Restaurant, Seaside Boulevard, Pasay City. It was also written that the heated argument led into gun toting.
The report has also said that Epy Quizon was involved in the incident, which happened at around 1:00am of March 29, 2009.
The family of Richard Gutierrez including her actress-sister Ruffa Gutierrez has reacted negatively on the report.
The statement from editor Jo-Ann Q. Maglipon is posted on the Philippine Entertainment Portal and read:
“This is a statement of clarification, correction, and apology.
“Yesterday, March 29, at a little past 4:15 p.m., the Philippine Entertainment Portal (PEP) uploaded a story on Richard Gutierrez and Michael Flores alleging the two actors had a confrontation on March 28 at director Mark Reyes’s birthday celebration. The four-paragraph story ended by saying that PEP “at press time is still investigating the incident.”
“The fact is that a report did reach PEP about an incident that reportedly occurred at around 1a.m. of March 29, allegedly involving Richard Gutierrez and Michael Flores. When I was told about this incident, I recognized that it was of interest to the public, and gave instructions to the staff to investigate further.
“At around 7:20 p.m., my attention was called to the story having been uploaded in the site. I had it pulled out immediately. I felt that, at that point, we had not exhausted our probe into the facts of the incident. While we were able to get in touch with Michael Flores, Epy Quizon, and Leo Martinez, who were all guests at the party, we had not as yet interviewed other personalities, particularly Richard Gutierrez. For this we apologize.
“To Richard Gutierrez, Michael Flores, Epy Quizon who were named in the story, to PEP readers who may have been confused, and, again to Richard Gutierrez whose side of the story we failed to get, our sincerest apologies.
“PEP will always maintain the best standards of web reportage, and on the unhappy occasion that it fails to do so, will acknowledge its error.”
Despite PEP’s apology, Annabelle Rama, mother of Richard Gutierrez is still filing a case against the entertainment news site. Aparrently, Rama is demanding for a retraction of the report, not an apology. But Maglipon’s side is persistent not to retract the report.
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