Pantera publicist lashes out at E! network

A publicist for Pantera has gone public with a blistering e-mail she sent to the E! cable network after it requested permission to re-enact the December 2004 onstage murder of Pantera and Damageplan guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. The entertainment and gossip network had apparently asked permission to dramatize the crime for a program called 25 Most Chilling Hollywood Murders. In her response, publicist Janie Hoffman wrote, "I realize there is nothing anyone can do to stop E! from producing garbage like this, as you've built your audience on the backs of other people's private lives, creating some type of warped reality out of your garbage...make believe it's your child who got his brains splattered all over a stage in Ohio. And then you turn on E! (and there it is). Oh, the magic of television!"

Hoffman concluded her missive by saying, "The answer is no, and on behalf of everyone that was there that night and everyone that misses him every day, you can take that no and shove it up your collective a***s."

Abbott was shot to death just moments into a Damageplan concert on December 8th, 2004 at a Columbus, Ohio club. His killer, a disturbed 25-year-old ex-Marine, was slain by a police officer at the scene.

This past Sunday (August 20th) would have Abbott's 40th birthday.
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