Template:VFTG USA 9 Notable Events

Notable deaths

The following people associated with VFTG (or VFTW) have died in 2017.

Holly Everman

Holly Everman was the pink team captain. Having been officially involved with Vote for the Girls since 2010, Everman was a part of Vote for the Girls' success in the American Idol campaign with Candace Glover, Alex & Sierra, Alfonso Ribeiro, and Gaby Diaz. In addition to this, Everman was considered an active and progressive owner in the site's operations. Everman died on May 23 at the age of 37.

Kymberly Alvaraz

On August 21, 2017, police were called to Alvaraz's home in Denver, Colorado over reports of a disturbance. Alvaraz had reportedly destroyed the inside of her home and had also been banging her head against the walls. Shortly after police arrived, Alvaraz's estranged girlfriend, Ava Zinn, informed them via telephone that Alvaraz was suicidal and had spent the previous two months in the hospital for a suicide attempt. She was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric ward of Denver Health Medical Center by the police and placed on a 72-hour mental observation hold. Early the next morning, she fashioned a noose from her hospital sheets and hanged herself in a closet.

Peta-Alyce Kaizer and Benjamin Donbar

Purple Team moderators Benjamin Donbar and Peta-Alyce Kaizer were fatally stabbed by Pink Team West moderator Kent Morgan and Sally Brock on October 16 during a bench-clearing brawl. Kaizer suffered stab wounds to the abdomen while Donbar had wounds to his arm, rib cage and chest according to the autopsies obtained by CBS 41 (WTOR). Kaizer died from her injuries hours after the incident and Donbar the next day.

Pending a decision by NoSirGifts and Aeverine Zinn Holdings for the remainder of the season, the staff on VFTG will honor Kaizer and Donbar by applying a decal with "PAK & BD" on the left back side of their notebook tablets. Respective 22 and 29 second memory will be honored in an upcoming episode if and when VFTG resumes production.

Discipline for on-set incidents

Addisongate

Upon seeing Addison Agen did not get the four chair turn during the blind auditions of season 13 of The Voice, Pink Team East moderator Maribel Mort shoved Pink Team North moderators Andrea Coolranch onto the floor after Coolranch reportedly pulling Mort's hair-tie and repeatedly throughout the episode, Pink Team South moderators Karla Hansen, Breeanna Sorensen and Jenna Monroe, and Purple Team West moderators Thia Tola and Jenny Riva all lost their tempers and Mort pulled off Coolranch's necklace and Riva ripping off Tola's pants and bit host Ava Zinn's left wrist. Riva and Mort respectively then threw Tola's pants and Coolranch's necklace onto the notorious Cat Pound fan section of Ava Zinn and Alexandra Moffitt audience and were promptly thrown to the ground by Sorensnen. Riva and Mort then proceeded to strike Tola and Hansen, respectively, on the back of their heads before being pulled away by Purple Team North Moderators Rachael Passalt and Kendra Ray.

Mort, Coolranch, Sorensen, Monroe, Hansen, Tola, and Riva were ejected from the episode, and were initially fined $10,000 for their unsportsmanlike actions. Mort and Riva were suspended for the reminder of the season due to the nature of the altercation.

Kye Sanchez-Clark Jones incident

On October 10, 2017 Red Team South Villain Clark Jones punched Red Team West Villain Kye Sanchez in the face and not only fracturing his jaw, but in the process, as Sanchez fell onto the floor, VFTG host and Purple Team North moderator Ava Zinn fell to the ground and suffered a minor shoulder injury. The incident allegedly took place after Purple Team South moderator Devin Martin took offense to Jones' comment as the audition of a villain's audition on The Voice (later to be revealed) and an argument between Martin, Bria Savage, Purple Team South Moderators Tim Doogan and Ben Donbar.

Jones, Sanchez, Savage, and Martin were ejected from the episode and were fined $20,000 for their unsportsmanlike actions. Jones and Sanchez were fined an additional $20,000 for injuring Zinn. Doogan and Donbar were fined $10,000. Sanchez and Jones were suspended for the remainder of the season. Sanchez's disqualification marked the first time a moderator or villain has been disqualified despite being the winning villian of a competition (Sanchez had been declared the winning villain of Boy Band with supported contestants Sergio Caldreon and Chance Perez) and also marks the second consecutive season Jones was disqualified (Jones had erroneously picked Rick Perry & Emma Slater as a villain pick for the twenty-third season of Dancing with the Stars and was disqualified after Sasha Farber and Emma Slater became engaged a year earlier. Jones picked Rick Perry & Slater while Thia & Natasha chose Terra Jole & Farber, which is a violation of the moderator rules). Clark Jones was fired from the panel on October 22, 2017.

Kent & Sal charged with murder, assault

On October 16, 2017, Pink Team West duo moderator Kent & Sal was charged with the murders of Purple Team South moderator Benjamin Donbar and Purple Team East moderator Peta-Alyce Kaizer. Kent Morgan and Sal Brock, along with Red Team South villain Clark Jones, were terminated by host Ava Zinn following his arrest in the murder investigation a week later.

Four other moderators — Ava Zinn, Andrea Coolranch, Nadia Lorenzo, and Marla McClinton — all suffered stab wounds in the incident.

Zinn and NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Stations President and CEO Jackson Steele conducted an official five year investigation into the matter concluded that other VFTG staff had been subjected to a "pattern of bullying" at the hands of former moderators Kymberly Alvaraz and Robyn Hurd as well as former villains Archibald Coolracnh and Leonard Lai. The 23-page report, written by NoSirGifts-appointed investigator Ken Watts (brother of villain Mark Watts and investigative reporter at CBS 41), agreed with Ava Zinn's assessment of the situation as a "classic case of workplace violence".

If convicted, Morgan and Brock could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Discipline for off-set incidents

Janet Webb charged with DWI; suspended 10 shows

Purple Team West moderator Janet Webb was arrested on October 26 near her apartment in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI) after failing field sobriety tests. A search of Webb's vehicle revealed "numerous prescription medication bottles containing pills" as well as almost $6,000 in cash. Preliminary charges of DWI and three counts of possession of a controlled substance were filed against Webb, who was jailed overnight. Webb entered a rehabilitation facility shortly after her release from jail.

In late November, Webb was charged with two misdemeanor counts in the incident: operating a vehicle while intoxicated and operating a vehicle with a controlled substance in the body. Prosecutors allege Webb was under the influence of oxycodone or hydrocodone, both of which are prescription opioid narcotic pain medications.

Webb also admitted to an unrelated incident on October 16, 2017 and was charged with six counts of manslaughter for her own role in the incident that killed two moderators and injured four others.

Webb pleaded guilty on October 27 to one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated (OWI), which is a Class C misdemeanor in Indiana and six counts of voluntary manslaughter, which is a Level 2 felony in Indiana. NoSirGifts banned Webb from any contact with Vote for the Girls for 10 shows also levied a fine of $300,000. She was also forbidden from doing any media interviews or making comments related to the team on social media during the suspension.

Records, milestones, and notable statistics

Many of the site's moderator or villains season broke records or made history for the show in a number of ways:

• Rachael Passalt became the fifteenth winning moderator on the site as Passalt became the winning moderator of the fourteenth season of SYTYCD upon the elimination of Kaylee Millis with a moderator victory.
• Lauren Herman became the sixteenth winning moderator (and the first female villain) to win as a female contestant (Darci Farmer) was declared the winner of the twelfth season of America's Got Talent. This marked the first time in the site's history a female villain has won.

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