Sex-crazed or set up?

sexshop.jpgNever mind about the unemployment rate - what inquiring minds really want to know is why and/or how superstar bond investor Jeff Gundlach would keep 12 sexual devices, 34 hardcore porn magazines and 36 hardcore DVDs and videocassettes in his TCW office in downtown L.A.? That's the cache TCW claims it found after he was unceremoniously let go in early December, and while the firm's lawsuit against Gundlach includes far more serious allegations - among them that he and a bunch of employees stole proprietary information - it's the sex angle everybody truly cares about. So here's the question: Was TCW just setting up Gundlach because of his reputation as a wild and crazy guy or was he actually using this stuff? Dealbreaker's Bess Levin is dubious:

Maybe Gundlach just loves his drugs and porn, and needed them close to him at all hours of the day. On the other hand: the sheer volume of stuff just seems really suspect, as though perhaps someone was maybe tasked with stashing some stuff around the office to make Gundlach look bad, except that whoever was put on the job failed to exercise a little restraint, making the whole thing slightly unbelievable. Let's just say Gundlach does feel the need to jerk it at the office, and, being blocked from XTube, has no other choice but to bring in his own materials. Fine. Would he seriously need thirty-six different DVDs??? One, okay. Two, fine. Everyone needs variety. THIRTY-SIX?

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