Beth May Beth Fiore Fraud and thief New York, New York

March 25, 2010 Peter Langone issued a take down notice; March 26 pursuant to the takedown notice by Peter Langone, the image was removed; then, on March 26, Peter Langone filed suit against the artist after the image was removed. In the Settlement Agreement, both parties - including Peter Langone, "agree that nothing herin shall be construed as an admission of wrongdoing." Further proof can be found in the images of the Settlement Agreement attached to this document.

Peter Langone, commercial photographer and owner of peterlangone.com uses scam websites to Slander Innocent Creative Director under fictitious name to hide in an effort to avoid legal ramifications. The IP address of 70.88.39.41 has been identified as Langone Studios Inc. 215 SE 12th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 and is the known origination of the alias posting from Mr. Andersson from Lund, Sweden.

Peter Langone has within the week on November 18, 2011 posted more false claims about an Artist/Manager who worked with him and brought him his recent fame and success in an effort of pursued continuing harassment. A move that as many blog posts reflects is "not unlike something he would do".

Beth had a highly profitable business with Peter Langone and a solid friendship where she states in Digital Photo Pro how close their bond and working relationship was. The relationship soon presented obstacles, and Beth began taking notice of "questionable practices" from the photographer and known associates of Mr. Langone. Both the suspicion and her distaste for his affiliations caused her to leave the Photographer. No filings or reports were suggested at that time, Beth quoting "There were no hard feelings. I just wanted out."

The Artist, then Manager and Agent to Peter Langone booked this photographer high profile assignments like Buick/ Tiger Woods, Fox Sports, Dell Computers, and others. She also raised significant money for his directorial assignments for him to produce independent films and commercials. Peter Langone's photography was once popular with Ad Agencies in the 1980's, but he had not worked steadily since then until Beth began representing him. Once she took over, she revamped his style, pushed him into digital photography and she worked tirelessly around the clock to rebrand his ineffective style which had been negatively coined in the industry as "stock".

A week after Beth left, she began using the images she created to reflect her past work history with Peter Langone in her portfolio under a new company Icon Global Artists where she hoped to help other artists like herself in building a name in the industry. Her clients, who grew to respect her and her work followed, which enraged the photographer. He then began harassing the artist, and shortly thereafter threatened her to remove one of the images she was using that she creatively directed, styled, produced, booked, sold and was paid for directly by the client. In addition, the artist was using images of herself that Peter Langone had taken of her - as a friend for her personal music project, that he had signed over to her with a release and that she had styled, produced, and creatively concepted. Regardless of her cooperation he filed suit against her with alleged claims that she was stealing his work. Both of the clients we interviewed stated that she was "an amazing Creative Director", and that she "exceeded their expectations handling their assignments like a true professional." It was further stated that, "Peter Langone was the photographer that was working with Beth at the time, and that she promoted as her only choice of photographer, so if you wanted to work with Beth, she would only use Peter." They continue by stating, "The hard work was the months of planning and creatives that Beth provided for us."  

Reports surfaced from friends close to the Artist and Creative Director who were outraged by the now public display of his baseless and frivolous lawsuit claims, and wanted to tell the real story of what the artist was going through at the time online without her knowing. Sources close to Mr. Langone stated, "It was an unfortunate separation, and Mr. Langone reacted in an unfavorable manner towards her, he was very upset and possessive of her, and leaving Peter Langone was NOT an option." Unfortunately, this display online was not what she was searching for since her privacy was of utmost importance. Regardless, Peter Langone continued his retaliation, and continued to put further pressure and instability in the way for the Creative Director to keep her from moving forward in both her personal and professional life.

After over a year of continued harassment by photographer Peter Langone, Beth was diagnosed with a serious condition that was brought on by years of chronic stress, the artist spent the last part of 2009 and all of 2010 overcoming severe internal organ damage. She transformed her service based business into a successful product based business, and worked as a freelance visual artist for only a few close clients on a daily basis. The artist was represented by outside professional management and removed herself from all business negotiations, and crew hires. The main thrust of her new business while in and out of treatment was mainly geared towards her writing her book, and music.

Throughout the end of 2010, the threats and harassment from Peter Langone seemed to have subsided for the artist, all but only a few reports of him visiting her family members without invitation, until mid February 2011 when Google decided to adjust their algorithms. Google's new algorithm change had instantly subverted all his efforts and attempts to push down the responses online from known associates who witnessed his slander. With Google's new decision, this posting was now back at the top of search engines, and the harassment would return to Beth via phone texts and emails claiming this was her doing. Now in recovery from her illness and completely removed from the environment, Beth felt she had put to rest his attacks, but now they are back in full force. Beth is now in relocation, and has filed a restraining order against Peter Langone.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) David Goldman Reports February 25, 2011 -- Google made one of the biggest changes ever to its search results this week, which immediately had a noticeable effect on many Web properties that rely on the world's biggest search engine to drive traffic to their sites.A controversial decision: Any change to Google's algorithm is a zero-sum game. Some websites win, some lose.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/25/technology/gaming_google/index.htm
With regards to these false claims, Beth does not handle any estimates, bookings negotiations, productions, or crew hires. She does not own the claimed site or any affiliate sites or names referred to in this document, and goes by her legal first and last name. Any and all photography that is displayed in any portfolio reviews are her work as reflected in the below settlement agreement, and any and all further work from any photographers Beth has worked with in the past has been approved "in writing" by the artist or agent and credited unless otherwise agreed upon in writing by the photographer, producer, or author. Any and all original works of art have been filed with the U.S. Copyright Office, and her name is clear of any and all debts. She does not owe any business or person, and with research provided by all three credit bureaus shows outstanding credit and business practices.

The Lawsuit filed By Peter Langone:
The lawsuit was settled. This photographer was silenced by his settlement agreement with regards to intellectual property claims, and there was nothing proven with regards to this copyright infringement claim, stated in the settlement agreement (United States District Court Southern District of Florida Fort Lauderdale Division Case No: 10-CV-60467- Moore Simonton " WHEREAS the Parties agree that nothing herein shall be construed as an admission of wrongdoing by either party and affirmatively state that each is entering into this Settlement Agreement not due to any liability but solely to avoid the uncertainty and expense of litigationit continues to state Langone hereby agrees as a condition of this settlement and for so long as ..is in compliance with and continues to observe the terms of this Agreement, to permit the defendant to utilize his l(My paraphrase: Peter Langone's) copyrightable photographs for her personal online portfolio for personal job industry solicitation for herself only, including but not limited to those photographs depicting or evidencing the defendants work as a stylist, creative director, or producer. 

I have come to the sad realization after researching this claim further, and after speaking to some known associates of Peter Langone, that this was indeed his doing. My ex. After 2 years of his continued harassment, him attacking 2 businesses I have started, forcing me into a lawsuit, which by the way was settled - (it had no merit in the first place, and I would be happy to show you the papers), Peter Langone forced me from my home town and away from my family and friends. I then came down with a serious illness, and lost mostly everything because of his actions. After all of this I have yet to get rid of him! This man is like an incurable disease! His repeated harassment after close to 2 YEARS, emailing violent and obstructive language ensues! 

I have unfortunately tripped upon this post when I received an email from a gentlemen at http://brandrevitalize.com allowing me the courtesy of letting me know it was posted with my website and my name in an effort to spare the embarrassment this may cause me. I don't feel anything really other than embarrassment for the person who posted it; who obviously has no idea who I am, and has unfortunately posted something that has nothing to do with me. Since I certainly would like the person who posted the original report to get it to the correct creative director who unfortunately took advantage of them, I will give this my attention. 
 
Mr. Andersson of "The Matrix", you are obviously having a hard time in your life over this. Please email me in a follow up post the name of the project you believe we worked together on, and we can ask the client on this forum whether or not we have indeed worked together; to prove to you that I have never worked with you. Then we can find out who the Creative Director is  that didn't pay you. Typically I'm sorry to say, I get paid, I don't pay out, and the only time I have done that in the last 2 years was to a friend that I see every day. 

I unfortunately have never been to Sweden, or know any one that is Swedish. Again, I have never heard of you, and since you put New York - which is even more confusing, I can certainly identify that this is most definitely not me. I have not been to NY in over 2 years.

I am living outside the continental U.S., am very happily engaged, debt free, not even a balance on a credit card, and running a very small operation while I overcome a health condition that has left me unable to work full time. Those who are close to me, and who have worked with me know very well who I am, and the only person I have run scared from due to harassment was my ex, and we all know how jealous ex's can be...Right ladies? For all I know this could be him. Other than that, I can thankfully say that over the past 2 years I have maintained a select few amazing clients whom I see nearly every day, and if you would like any referrals I would be happy to submit those to you.

Again, please let me know how I can be of further assistance to you, and I am very sorry you have either been very damaged by someone else's failed integrity, you are simply in the wrong place, or you are desperately in need of mental help. However I can be of assistance to you, I would love nothing more than to do so.

I hope you will realize your error, and as a member of  Intouch.org "God Bless" and I wish you nothing but light, love, and peace.

For all the work samples that are listed in my portfolio, they come with clients that would be happy to give a good referral of my work performance, efforts and results. Along with this I have an in depth behind the scenes video of me working on the set with many of the clients and work reflected in my portfolio, so this is not a problem. I would be happy to give you their contact information at any time. 

Beth