Bostick stiffs publicist

01/08/2007

Bostick stiffs publicist

PRESS RELEASE: Publicist Rob Russen figures he has waited long enough to be paid for services  rendered to boxing promoter Bobby Bostick and Bobby Bostick Promotions.   Bostick, who boasted during one of the press release interviews he did with  Russen that he would spend "$6 million" to protect his promotional rights to IBF  Welterweight Champion Kermit Citron in a contractual dispute with Main Events  has failed to pay fair and reasonable fees for services he requested and highly  approved of at the time they were delivered. "I find it odd that a man who claims to  be a man of God and backed by millions of dollars has a problem making payment  for services that he requested, approved and raved about their quality," Russen  says.   "Not only did he rave about the first  press release he was anxious to do several others," Russen adds.  "But after the  second one I submitted an invoice for payment and he literally  disappeared.  Then when I submitted two more demands for payment, including  a final demand, he send an angry email full of vim and vigor and falsehoods  attacking my character.  It's odd how he had been perfectly happy with me  and my work right up until the time I demanded payment." Normal procedure for publicists is to  be prepaid either per retainer or per release created and distributed.   From the beginning Bostick assured Russen that money was no problem and that he  would be paid.  Now, it appears, Russen's only chance  to get paid is to take Bostick and Bobby Bostick Promottions to court.   Expect such action to come in the near future.