Amid Child Custody Battle, Radio Host Alex Jones Claims He Slept With 150-Plus Women By Age 15

AUSTIN, TX — File this one under the "apropos of nothing" category.

Amid a custody battle with his ex-wife over guardianship of his three children, nationally syndicated radio personality Alex Jones of Infowars fame recently said in a videotaped rant that, by the age of 16, he already had been with 150 women. That's "had been" in the Biblical sense, mind you.

“I’d already had probably — I hate to brag, but I’m not bragging, it’s actually shameful — probably 150 women or more, that’s conservative,” the conspiracy theorist said about 48 minutes into a videotaped monologue. “I’d already had over 150 women; I’d already been in fights with full-grown men. I was already dating college girls by the time I was 15 years old. I was already a man at 16.”

Jones began the video on an unrelated subject, airing his views about the 2012 attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. during which a gunman mowed down 20 schoolchildren that the Austin-based radio personality has long suggested was a hoax orchestrated by those calling for gun control.

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The children who died that day, he's said, were likely actors playing a role—an assertion contradicted by affected parents still grieving in the aftermath of the slaughter and the families of the six educators who also died that day. He's called the slaughter "a giant hoax."

But as outlandish as that claim might be, it's par for the course for Jones. He's built a media empire spouting such rhetorical atrocities, to the basest delights of his conspiracy-minded followers who appear to be legion.

But this whole slept-with-150-women-by-the-time-I-was-15 thing has been, up to now, an undisclosed part of his personal biography. The Austin American-Statesman newspaper was the first to flag the Saturday monologue in a reporter's blog.

On its face, the revelation (whether it's true or not is immaterial given that it came out of Jones' mouth) is not out of the ordinary for Jones, given the outrageous nature of his historical claims. But the fact it came during a time when he is in the midst of gaining custody of his kids adds a layer of what-did-he-just-say incredulity.

On its website, the magazine Slate has a handy calculator of sorts related to lifetime intimate partners (don't ask us how or why we know this). One inputs the number of sex partners, one's gender and age and voila! The resulting calculations alert the user whether the number is higher than the peer percentile.

Just for kicks, Patch input Jones' age into the widget (he's 43; or so he claims; we can't be entirely sure), and the number 150. There's a margin of error here in reaching the implications of the rough calculus given that the age threshold is set at 18. Still, we were curious.

The results: "You've done the deed with more people than basically than basically all your peers," the widget alerts the user. It's worth noting that a button appears below the result, reading: "I lied. Let me do it again."

(Editor's note: We entered the calculation in the interest of journalism in an effort to inform you, the public, as thoroughly as we can. This writer takes great comfort in the assurance the data won't be collected by Slate toward tailored marketing based on Internet searches, which is now a fervent hope this won't happen.)

In his weekend monologue, Jones goes further in explaining his supposed prowess: “When I was 16, I didn’t want to party anymore. I didn’t want to play games anymore. I grew up. I’d already been in the fights, all the big rituals.

Helpfully, he also offered visual aids, drawing a series of stick-figure illustrations in arguing that one is at one's peak by the age of 35. "You are at your peak, peak, peak, peak, peak, peak peak," he said (yes, he said "peak" that many times), adding that "...you're supposed to have children by 16 in every culture, biologically."

Kelly Jones, his ex-wife, is seeking sole or joint custody of their three children in a trial at a Travis County courthouse.

In a related development, Greek yogurt giant Chobani on Monday sued Jones in accusing him of publishing false information about the company, the Associated Press and other media outlets reported. The company accused the radio show host of posting fabricated tales on the Infowars website linking Chobani owner Hamdi Ulukaya and the company to a sexual assault case centered on refugee children.

In the yogurt company story, for good measure, an Infowars correspondent claimed the Chobani plant in Idaho has unleashed crime and tuberculosis in the community since the facility opened five years ago. The tale was picked up by numerous right-wing blogs and anti-immigration websites to the detriment of the image of the company which seeks $10,000 in damages.

While it's still unclear if hell actually froze over in the aftermath, Jones recently issued an apology for another food-related story. He posted the mea culpa on his Infowars site on March 24, formally apologizing to James Alefantis, owner of the Washington, D.C. restaurant Comet Ping Pong. Infowars claimed in a campaign that Hillary Clinton and other Democrats were involved in a pedophilia ring, the activities he alleged were centered on the pizza restaurant involving cryptically written food orders.

One Infowars follower took the story seriously, marching to the restaurant and firing a round into the establishment (no one was injured), as the Austin Chronicle and others reported. The implications of that particular fabrication reached the fabulist's home base in Austin, as Jones' local sycophants started rumors on Reddit and Facebook that East Side Pies was part of the imagined pedophilia ring. Followers took to secretly filming "surveillance" video inside the eatery as a result, made threatening phone calls and even vandalizing one of the company's delivery trucks.

As part of his defense strategy, Jones' attorney in the child custody battle has said the explosive host is a performance artist, suggesting his rants should be taken with a grain of salt. He is a character not unlike the Joker in the Batman series, and judging him based on his on-air persona rather than his real personality would be unfair, the lawyer said.

While that may or may not be true (with Jones one never knows), between the pizza and the yogurt, Jones' ongoing child custody battle is shaping up to be a real food fight, metaphorically speaking.

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