{"id":59793,"date":"2015-08-24T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T09:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=59793"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:33:32","slug":"ceo-of-cheating-website-says-hes-faithful-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/24\/ceo-of-cheating-website-says-hes-faithful-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of cheating website says he\u2019s faithful husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59795\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A5wq-ZNCYAAyRE2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59795\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A5wq-ZNCYAAyRE2.jpg\" alt=\"Noel Biderman, \u201cThe King of Infidelity,\u201d the founder of the adultery site Ashley Madison (Twitter photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A5wq-ZNCYAAyRE2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A5wq-ZNCYAAyRE2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noel Biderman, \u201cThe King of Infidelity,\u201d the founder of the adultery site Ashley Madison (Twitter photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SAN DIEGO \u2013 Touting himself as the \u201cThe King of Infidelity,\u201d the founder of the adultery site Ashley Madison built his livelihood around the unconventional philosophy that cheating is a natural part of married life \u2013 yet he says he is a devoted husband, and his wife of 12 years says she would be devastated if he was unfaithful.<\/p>\n<p>Noel and Amanda Biderman say they do not practice what they preach but simply are smart entrepreneurs seizing an untapped market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am printing money, I don\u2019t deny it,\u201d Biderman told the New York Daily News in 2014. \u201cThat\u2019s what happens when you build a taboo-focused business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their privately held Toronto holding company, Avid Life Media Inc., grossed $115 million in earnings last year, according to tax documents and figures shared by Biderman with Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>Now divorce lawyers are preparing for a potential bonanza from the site\u2019s massive breach that released the information of its subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a problem the Bidermans say they have never had to confront because they are in a monogamous relationship, but they recognize others do not have that and there is money to be made from infidelity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy periactin online <a href=\"https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/periactin.html\">https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/periactin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The couple, who have two children, say there\u2019s nothing wrong in running a site that allows married people who want to cheat to connect with others seeking an affair. Users pay a fee each time they send a message to a potential lover.<\/p>\n<p>They turned down a request by The Associated Press to be interviewed for this story but have spent years appearing on TV talk shows and making other media appearances to promote their site.<\/p>\n<p>The company says in a statement the hackers should be judged, not Ashley Madison and its roughly 39 million customers. The hackers have accused the company of filling the site with fake profiles and extorting fees for wiping profiles that were never truly deleted.<\/p>\n<p>The company has said it is working on beefing up its security protocol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of the nature of the content, our customers, this company, and its employees are all exercising their legal and individual rights, and all deserve the ability to do so unhindered by outside interference, vigilantism, selective moralizing and judgment,\u201d the company said. \u201cThe individual or individuals who are responsible for this straightforward case of theft should be held accountable to the fullest extent of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noel Biderman has written books espousing his views on infidelity, including one published in 2011 entitled: \u201cCheaters Prosper \u2013 How Infidelity Will Save The Modern Marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reader will be transported to other cultures where infidelity is rampant and yet divorce is virtually non-existent,\u201d says the book&#8217;s promotional material.<\/p>\n<p>That theory may be put to its biggest test yet in the aftermath of the breach. Some lawyers predict they will be flooded with business, while New York divorce attorney Michael DiFalco says he believes there will be \u201ca dozen clients caught by text message for every client that might get caught this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bidermans earned millions from running a dating service for cheaters, yet Amanda Biderman told ABC&#8217;s \u201cThe View\u201d in 2013: \u201cI would be devastated if (Noel Biderman) did it to me. But I would not blame a website.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy mounjaro online <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonanxiety.org\/images\/layout4\/png\/mounjaro.html\">http:\/\/bostonanxiety.org\/images\/layout4\/png\/mounjaro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Ashley Madison is not creating cheaters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy methocarbamol online <a href=\"https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/methocarbamol.html\">https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/methocarbamol.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> It is servicing a need that is there, that exists. And unfortunately, it exists. It\u2019s sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marriage and family therapist David Christopher of Solana Beach, Calif., said in his 25 years of counseling he has had numerous clients who have acted on such impulses in a moment of loneliness or sadness and caused a lot of pain.<\/p>\n<p>Sites like Ashley Madison have capitalized on that human reality but that doesn\u2019t make it right, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve also known drug dealers who didn\u2019t do the cocaine they were selling, so wouldn\u2019t this be the same thing?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2013 Touting himself as the \u201cThe King of Infidelity,\u201d the founder of the adultery site Ashley Madison built &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":59795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-59793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-original","mauthors-julie-watson","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286783,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59793\/revisions\/286783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}