Scott Sassa, the high-flying exec who abruptly exited Hearst over a sexting scandal with a stripper, browsed the “high-class” escort Web site Kingzzz.com, sources tell Page Six.
A source close to the former Hearst Entertainment & Syndication head — who earned $6 million a year and produced the History Channel series “The Bible” — says Sassa wasn’t merely sexting on his company phone but also sending messages to the stripper that were particularly “explicit and depraved,” which were then forwarded to his horrified bosses by her boyfriend, leading to Sassa’s hasty exit this week.
“Scott was very careless. It was very unprofessional,” said the source who claimed to have seen the texts sent by Sassa, 53, to the LA stripper from his Hearst corporate phone in December.
Those lurid messages and pictures were forwarded by the woman’s boyfriend to Hearst bosses in an attempt to blackmail Sassa, but “there’s a lot more to this,” our source said, adding: “They [Hearst] are going to find a treasure trove. It is very twisted.”
Sassa is also a longtime friend of Kris Jenner and the Kardashian family. But after we exclusively revealed his exit from Hearst yesterday, “Girls Gone Wild” mogul Joe Francis tweeted that Sassa is “the biggest scumbag on earth.”
Francis told Page Six that Sassa, a former friend, once borrowed money from him. He further said Sassa invited him to become a member of Kingzzz.com — the same Web site that sparked a war last fall after Francis alleged that Miami “Real Housewife” Joanna Krupa was an escort on the site. Krupa denied being an escort, and Francis tweeted at the time, “@ScottSassa emailed me the hooker website where I first heard about [Krupa].”
Another source says, “Scott did a lot of good things at Hearst, like the Mark Burnett deal. Some are shocked, [but] if all execs in Hollywood got fired for sexting strippers, there’d be nobody left.” George Kliavkoff, who was executive vice president of Sassa’s division, is expected to take on his role.
A spokeswoman for Sassa declined to comment.