Alex Jones has an *actual cult*
Alex Jones has an *actual cult*
FSU speaks to Alex's ex-wife, a former Infowars staffer, and many others
Ex-wife claims “conspiracy of lawyers” and legal system protects Jones’ media empire
Sealed court documents describe Alex Jones’ “depraved, bizarre cult indoctrination” of his children
EEOC complaint alleges Jones groomed employee "for homosexual sex"
Alex Jones sent staffers to Proud Boys meetings and associated with David Duke
In 2013, Billy Corgan appeared on Infowars and gave us what might be the most revealing moment of Alex Jones’ career. The Smashing Pumpkins singer, a long-time fan and occasional guest on the show, offered some constructive criticism: “The Infowars could benefit from a spiritual perspective,” he said, citing Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., “and even Jesus” as people Jones should emulate. He’d like to see Jones abandon the negativity and bring people together to confront the world’s evils with a positive message. Alex took all the criticism with more humility than one might expect as Billy dominated the conversation. Of course, Jones had no intention of making Infowars a cooperative or encouraging meditation among his staff or pivoting to whatever kindler, gentler conspiracism Corgan advocated. Alex Jones’ brand was and is rage, and the rage is what made him famous. Perhaps too famous.
Fame has been Jones’ goal since he dropped out of community college at age 22 and started appearing on public access television in Austin, Texas. This obsession is why, despite his extreme narcissism, he clams up when confronted by someone closer to the A-list, like Corgan, Charlie Sheen, or Joe Rogan, and lets them take center stage. He even acts a little awestruck around Dave Mustaine.
Of course, not every celebrity rates in Jones’s book. “He says he wants to break Alec Baldwin's neck,” his ex-wife Kelly Jones testified in 2017. “He wants J-Lo to get raped."
In a recent conversation, Kelly Jones summed up her ex-husband: “He’s a fanboy, right? He loves to be a celebrity.” The key to understanding Alex Jones is that he’s sick, she says. He doesn’t have any friends. In fact, she makes him sound like Howard Hughes with a rage problem: “I hope you'll write that I do have empathy for Alex. He’s a very, very sick person.”
“The Infowar,” as Billy Corgan put it, is Alex Jones’ whole life. And this life has just entered a new, very difficult chapter.
Much of the disaster that is America, circa 2022, can all be traced to one Texas boy’s desire to be famous. An old-school believer that the September 11th attacks were orchestrated by the Bush administration, Alex Jones has been responsible for promoting Pizzagate to great heights, helping fund the January 6th pro-Trump rally that led to the insurrection, and then, of course, there’s the thing he’ll be remembered for: saying that the Sandy Hook mass shooting, in which a lone gunman killed twenty first graders and six adults, was a hoax, and the grieving parents were actors. He didn’t just say this once — this lie persisted for years. Jones promoted this theory so well that some of his listeners began harassing and sending death threats to the bereaved surviving parents of the massacre.
No longer just the king of his sleazy corner of the internet, Alex Jones has exposed his own breed of insanity to the rest of the country in his bizarre court appearances, where he has earned over a billion dollars in legal damages.
Alex Jones always wanted to be famous. Just not like this.
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