Remember that story last week, in which Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine claimed that he slept with tennis star Maria Sharapova, she made no noise during sex, and it caused him to become depressed? Yea, apparently it's not true.
According to the New York Observer, the piece was a bit of "throwaway satire," published in the eXile, a Moscow-based newspaper published by American expats. The paper's publisher, Mark Ames, responded to threats of a lawsuit from Levine's attorneys, by stating that "Americans are the most gullible fucking morons on Planet Earth."
If Ames' name sounds familiar, it's because he used to write for New York Press, during the Jeff Koyen/Matt Taibbi regime, and was most famously the author of that infamous anti-Chuck Klosterman piece, in which Ames implied that Klosterman was the reason he left the U.S. and moved to Moscow. We don't miss him much, that's for sure.
One more note on this: Wouldn't most men, if had been falsely reported around the world that they had slept with Maria Sharapova, not be in such a hurry to retract it, much less to hire lawyers?