Quentin Tarantino's film blogger girlfriend caught up in plagiarism row
Lianne MacDougall, girlfriend of Quentin Tarantino, accused of copying dozens of reviews
The US horror-writer girlfriend of Hollywood filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has been accused of plagiarising dozens of reviews by other critics for a regular column.
Lianne MacDougall, who uses the pen-name Lianne Spiderbaby reportedly copied material by writers for Empire magazine, Critical-Film.com and HighDefDigest.com among others, for a column titled "Spiderbaby's Terror Tapes" on the FEARnet site.
The alleged plagiarism was discovered after blogger Mike White of the site Impossible Funky set about following up an e-mail tip-off from an anonymous source.
White later detailed MacDougall's misappropriations in excruciating detail in a post on his blog last weekend.
MacDougall, host of the award-winning horror multimedia site Fright Bytes and author of forthcoming book Grindhouse Girls: Cinema's Hardest Working Women has since deleted her Twitter account and pulled her website from the internet.
Before doing that she apparently tweeted a brief apology to followers which was screen-captured by some sites: "I apologise for the plagiarism in my work. I am leaving journalism behind for a while. I'm so sorry to everyone esp those I've wronged."
FEARnet has since removed all of MacDougall's reviews.