The hits keep coming for Ackerman McQueen.
Over the weekend, The Oklahoman reported that longtime Oklahoma City news anchor Tammy Payne – a recognizable face to anyone who’s watched OKC TV news dating back to the 1990s – is suing Ackerman McQueen CEO Revan McQueen – the guy overseeing the fall of his family’s advertising empire – in Oklahoma District Court.
In the lawsuit, Tammy claims that Revan caused “severe and extreme emotional trauma and fear for her safety,” all because she started seeing his dad not too long after his mom passed away in 2013.
Here are some details via The Oklahoman:
A former employee at advertising agency Ackerman McQueen is accusing the CEO of hostile and abusive behavior toward her because of her romantic relationship with his widowed father.
Tammy Payne sued Revan McQueen on July 10 in Oklahoma County District Court for actual and punitive damages.
She alleges in the lawsuit that she had no choice but to leave her dying boyfriend’s side on July 15, 2019, because of two threatening encounters with Revan that left her terrified…
Payne, 59, worked as a television reporter and anchor in Oklahoma for years before joining Ackerman McQueen in 2015. She was fired last August.
On the surface, this looks likes the typical case of a spoiled trust-fund kid not approving of his ailing father’s new girlfriend, which it is, but, in all fairness to Revan, his anger is a bit justified. Check this out:
Yep. She “grew to enjoy Angus’ company” after he hired her to make a documentary about his late wife. That’s brutal…and in a demented way, also kind of badass for both Tammy and Angus.
That being said, I don’t think you can blame Revan for being a bit pissed about the whole situation. I know if my mom were to pass away, and then my dad hired Tara Blume or whoever to make a documentary about her life, and then six months later my dad and Tara Blume were taking trips to California wine country or whatever, I’d be a bit salty, too.
The lawsuit goes into some ultra-personal specifics about one Tammy’s and Revan’s encounters. It gets pretty dramatic and intense:
Holy shit, I can’t wait to see how that scene plays out after Lifetime – or NRA TV – buys the rights to the movie.
Anyway, you can read the full lawsuit at OSCN. Stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
What a waste of digital space.
And it’s hard to waste digital space!
I’m onboard with this diversification of the Oklahoma economy. Reality shows dawn to dusk. The lawsuit reads like a screenplay.
Gonna need more popcorn.
RAY FROM “RAIN MAN”: Uh, oh. Family DRAMA. Definitely family DRAMA. Time for a LAWSUIT, yeah definitely LAWSUIT. Judge Wapner presiding….definitely WAPNER.
I thought she was married to David Prater? What happened to that marriage?
That was Tamara Pratt.
He’s married to Tamara Pratt
Tamara Pratt
So, the heir of the NRA’s advertising agency got butthurt because a local TV news reporter was mistaken for a poor man’s Anna Nicole Smith?
Only in Oklahoma. Swear to God….
Hmmmm. Tammy who? Any relative to Peanut Head?
Looks like Shakespeare in the Park has a modern drama to perform.
Out Damned Spot! Quick hand me a tissue!
Angus McQueen died about a year ago. Did Mr. McQueen change his estate plan after becoming enamored with Tammy? We may never know if there aren’t public probate proceedings or lawsuits, but I’m betting that there is money involved in all this drama. Maybe this is a case of “I will drop my suit against Revan if you don’t challenge my cut of the inheritance.”
In almost all family disputes, it’s a good bet to follow the money. Especially when there is Another Woman Besides Mom involved, seen by the kids as “taking advantage” of senile old Dad. (Angus died of lung cancer at the advanced age of 74.)
If I’m not mistaken, Angus McQueen’s wife died maybe a year or two before he did.
According to item 8 that timeline doesn’t work for a “5-year loving commitment”, unless something got going before his wife died.
You’ve gotta be a blast to hang out with!
Is that actually Tammy in the pic?? Dang she had a lot of work done. Doesn’t even remotely resemble her these days.
If I remember correctly, Tammy was involved in a lawsuit over an engagement ring, and she even sued KFOR a few years ago over a contract dispute. She’s probably been absent from Mike Morgan’s Christmas Card list.
i was working for KOCO at the time of this…. as i recall she sued KFOR over them paying her male co-anchor – Lance West – more that she was getting – she had more experience and was logging more stories/air time than he was.
If you want a shorter version of the papers describing the details of the lawsuit, I offer an amended version:
1.Somebody smelled money
2.Somebody else smelled somebody who smelled money
3.Big fight, because money
4.The maid is the only one with any sense. And also, no money.
Queue-up the next Oklahoma-based Netflix special series … Ad Men meets Tiger King. Did McQueen have any exotic pets? I mean, besides Tammy.
White Wine Villain is on the loose again.
Tammy is such a con artist. I hope she doesn’t get a dime. This low life has zero talent and has made a career on lies and creating false accusations. Her goal has and always will be to get a quick settlement payout from people to get her to go away. You can’t make this stuff up. She is a living White Wine Villain. She doesn’t even care that the world can see her disturbingly pathetic intent.
It’s obvious why you were asked to leave.
Hide you wallets and watches everyone. She’s always lurking in the shadows.
Tammy is a great lady. I’ve known her for many, many years. She was an excellent reporter and worked well with law enforcement. She is a Christian lady and has been religiously proper as long as I have known her. Sounds like sonny boy got jealous and was afraid of Tammy hogging in on his family inheritance he thought he was going to get. Tammy is a person with great morals who probably was making an elderly gentleman happy during the last of his years. Good luck Tammy, as your life moves forward!
It sounds like the man wanted to be with his father alone or with his siblings while he was dying. And her not be around at that exact moment. Don’t let the picture get blurred with her one sided take on a matter. If you can’t see that and actually see how someone going through that would have emotions of all sorts. Close your eyes and put yourself in their shoes.
Time and place for everything. Let a family be with their dying loved ones and grieve in peace.
You said, “Making an elderly gentleman happy”.
Jodi McQueen passed July 23rd, 2013. Angus McQueen passed July 16th, 2019.
Thank you for that clarification. Too bad we can’t edit posts.