Spiegel and Murphy founded their company as Picaboo in July 2011 and later changed its name to Snapchat. Spiegel has denied the lawsuit’s allegations. He left the university in 2012, shortly before finishing his degree, to focus on Snapchat.Ī third Kappa Sigma member, Reginald “Reggie” Brown IV, is suing Snapchat, saying he was the one who came up with the app’s concept of disappearing messages and designed its logo but was omitted from the launch of the company. Spiegel created Snapchat along with fraternity brother Bobby Murphy while attending Stanford. It lets users trade photos and videos that disappear after a few seconds. Snapchat is a mobile messaging app popular with teens and young adults. Some of the messages were too sexually explicit for CNN to publish.

In another, he writes, “I’ll roll a blunt for whoever sees the most (breasts) tonight,” according to the blog. In other messages that were screen-grabbed onto the Gawker blog, Spiegel described a party “shopping list” that included “3 kegs, 5 … plastic shot glasses, 1 ounce of marijuana, 1 kilo of blow (cocaine).” They in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women.”Ī Snapchat spokeswoman told CNN that Spiegel had no further comment. I’m sorry I wrote them at the time and I was a jerk to have written them. “I’m obviously mortified and embarrassed that my idiotic e-mails during my fraternity days were made public,” he said.

In a written response sent to CNN by Snapchat, Spiegel, now 23, apologized for the e-mails. In another, the blog says, he jokes that the point of a laser-tag outing was to “shoot lazers at fat girls.” “Hope at least six girl last night because that didn’t happen for me,” he wrote in one e-mail after a fraternity party, according to the Gawker blog. In the e-mails, acquired by Gawker’s Valleywag blog, Evan Spiegel encourages fellow Kappa Sigma members to get sorority women drunk enough to have sex, mocks another fraternity by suggesting its members are gay and refers to a different group of sorority members as “sororisluts.”

The CEO of popular messaging app Snapchat is apologizing after a set of filthy e-mails he wrote several years ago to his fraternity brothers at Stanford University was leaked publicly this week.

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