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A gay couple who star in a fashion-focused reality TV series have shared video of an unknown man attacking their car in an apparent fit of extreme road rage.
Patrik Simpson and Pol’ Atteu, who co-host the Amazon Prime series Gown and Out in Beverly Hills and the Undressed podcast, say they were driving on Sunday, March 29, between 9:20 and 9:30 a.m. when, while stopped at the intersection of Melrose Avenue and Vine Street in Hollywood, the driver of a gray Toyota 4Runner with a roof rack blocked their vehicle.
“[The driver] drove on the wrong side of the road, pulled in front of us diagonal, and trapped our car,” Simpson, who recorded the interaction, told KABC. “We couldn’t turn left. We couldn’t turn right. We couldn’t go forward. We did not know what was going on.”
Simpson and Atteu sat stunned as the man exited his vehicle, approached their car, and punched and kicked the driver’s side window and door.
“He gave me this death glare, like, literally, I thought he was going to kill us,” he said.
In the video, Simpson can be heard telling Atteu to lock the doors and call the police.
Atteu, who was driving, feared the man would harm them if he managed to break into the car.
“I thought, ‘If this man is going back to the car, he’s going to get something… I’m dead. I’m literally… dead.’ This is that moment where I’m faced with that fear of, ‘I’m just going to die here. This is it,” he recalled.
After failing to smash through the window, the driver returned to his car and left the scene, leaving blood on the vehicle where his hand had struck it.
The couple followed the man’s vehicle for several miles, despite a 911 dispatcher warning them not to. “I wanted the license plate,” Simpson said.
Atteu claims the man ran multiple red lights and stop signs as they followed him, even though there appeared to be children in the car. “As much as I could see, there was someone in the passenger seat holding a baby,” he said.
It remains unclear what triggered the man’s behavior.
“It’s got to be mistaken identity, because I don’t know who this person is. I don’t know where this person came from,” Atteu said.
Simpson told KTLA he is not sure whether the man knew who they are, but questioned whether the incident was targeted.
Police have not yet identified the driver, despite Simpson and Atteu providing his license plate number when they filed the report.
Based on video shot by Simpson, the driver is described as a large, heavyset man with a dark beard and clear-framed glasses, wearing a black “Don’t Panic It’s Organic” graphic T-shirt and visible sleeve tattoos. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division at (213) 972-2971.
Pete Docter, Pixar's chief creative officer, has revealed why the studio erased allusions to the title character's LGBTQ identity from the 2025 animated film Elio.
The film follows the title character, a lonely boy who is beamed into outer space by an intergalactic organization after being mistaken for Earth's leader. Pixar had originally hired openly gay director Adrian Molina -- the co-director of the studio’s Oscar-winning 2017 hit Coco -- to helm the film, which he based on his own childhood.
A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded $2 million to LaTisha Nixon, the mother of Gemmel Moore, a Black gay man who died after being given a lethal dose of methamphetamine during a "party and play" sex session with high-profile Democratic donor Ed Buck.
Following two days of testimony, eight jurors deliberated for about an hour before returning a unanimous verdict in the wrongful death lawsuit.
"I miss my son every single day," Nixon said in a statement. "This verdict doesn’t bring him back, but...it means closure for me. It means I can fully mourn now. I have not been able to mourn. I have been in fight mode for eight years."
About 9% of U.S. adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual, according to new polling from Gallup.
That figure is unchanged from 2024 -- but remains higher than the 7% who identified as LGBTQ between 2021 and 2023. The findings are based on combined data from more than 13,000 telephone interviews conducted nationwide in 2025.
Overall, 86% of adults identified as heterosexual, 9% as LGBTQ, and 5% declined to answer questions about sexual orientation or gender identity.
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