Seattle authorities have arrested famed $70K CEO Dan Price on sexual assault charges stemming from an alleged rape at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs on April 15.

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Hundred Eighty Degrees first broke the story ____ weeks ago after the alleged survivor exclusively contacted us about her experience. She filed a police report and underwent a Sexual Assault Response Team examination the day after the alleged incident took place.

Price’s ex-wife Kristie Colón informed HED that she too contacted Palm Springs police to detail her own experience with abuse at the hands of Price. The couple lived together in Seattle between 2005-2012. Colón alleged that Price also forcibly sexually assaulted her during that time.

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As of July 28, 2019, victims 16 and over living in the state of Washington have 20 years from the commission of a sexual assault crime. A summary of the new law can be found here.

Local authorities arrested Price at his home in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle just after ____ p.m. on __day. Price’s attorney Paul Dayton refused to comment on the matter.

Price will be arraigned tomorrow at the ____ courthouse in Palm Springs at which time the judge will set a bail amount. Price will most likely meet the bail requirement and be freed pending trial at a later date.

Price is known the world over for his $70 minimum wage announcement in 2015 which caught the world by storm at a time when rage over exorbitant CEO pay and the fight for a $15 minimum grew to a fever pitch. Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders praised Price. Book deals, speaking gigs and news coverage poured in.

But the real Dan Price always percolated just beneath the seemingly beneficent surface. HED alleged that Price launched his enterprise on fraudulent practices while also exacting abusive behavior on anyone and everyone who crossed him in even the slightest manner.

Nonetheless, Price soldiered on, continuing to win over acolytes the world over regardless of his often dubious assertions.

People lost massive amounts of weight, had more babies, bought houses and beat cancer because they worked for Dan Price. That’s according to Dan Price.

Also according to Price, he did not rip off his industry, savagely beat his ex-wife or recently rape someone at a hotel in Palm Springs, California.

By many accounts, Price is two people. The public Price is the one that spreads the gospel of fair wages and family values. He alone has made life a whole helluva lot better for “the little guy or gal” on his payroll or client list… again, according to the gospel of Dan Price.

The more private, largely unknown Price, however, sows so many dark deeds that journalists, business chiefs and little guys or gals either claim PTSD or call their attorneys.

To say the very least, this story is unusual. After all, Price is a credit card processor not a state senator or big screen star. He somehow molded a ho-hum business model into a soap box for the masses. And now people either revere or fear him but seemingly fail to fully understand why.

Here’s Price holding court from his home office. His Fellowes paper shredder and dog Samantha are front and center while dozens of dutiful employees debate whether they should help their maestro reconstruct his long favored “little guy or gal” talking point into something forward thinking, such as the rather laughably mundane “small businesses.”

Whether focused on his faithful or his foes, Price apparently lies like it’s a social experiment. His idea of entertainment is to see just how far he can stretch boundaries without a hint of consequence.

He responded to his ex-wife’s domestic violence allegations by declaring, “We’ve been floored at the attention our story has gotten over the past year.” He told Esquire Magazine, “There's only two people on earth that know [about the domestic violence]. You could spend ten years with me and you still wouldn't know."

He responded to our business fraud allegations with, “Ever been accused of something you didn’t do but have no way to prove it? Figure just move on. Agree?”

Truth is, Price had been right. Everyone moved on. Not one media or regulatory organization took a deep-dive into the proof of widespread business fraud that HED had amassed. Not one media or law enforcement agency took a deep-dive into the information we aggregated on workplace or personal abuse.

Instead, we heard about Gravity Payments employees who ironically bought their rich boss a $70,000 sports car with some of the money he was supposed to give them. We heard about how Price purportedly proved how wrong all the conservative naysayers were about his still truly unsubstantiated wage hike. We heard what a staunch ally he was of women and the #MeToo movement — from Price himself.

Oodles of free publicity ostensibly drove oodles of new business his way, according to Price’s own accounts of the saga. But of course, not a single newsroom vetted those proclamations either — or anything that Price ever said about his professional practices. Why bother when it’s always easier and cheaper to pick low hanging fruit.

Now, however, Price is in an entirely different state of mind. Instead of daily eye candy tweets about evil billionaires who are deconstructing the middle class, Price must engineer his way out of the biggest challenge of his life.