Fired disc jockey DJ Star, who was arrested last week after making disparaging on-air comments about a rival DJ, his wife and four-year-old daughter, was released on bail Saturday after being charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Meanwhile, his show at New York’s Power 105.1 has been replaced by the less controversial combo of BET’s Big Tigger and radio vet Egypt.
DJ Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, shocked listeners of his syndicated Star & Bucwild Morning Show by calling out DJ Envy of New York’s Hot 97, including making racial comments about his Asian wife and threatening to sexually abuse their four-year-old daughter.
According to transcripts of the broadcast from May 3 through Monday, Star offered $500 to any listener who could provide information about the school attended by Envy’s daughter.
"I will come for your kids," Star said of Envy, according to the transcripts. "I finally got the information on his slant-eyed, whore wife."
Torain also called the couple's child a "little half a lo mein eater" and said he wanted to "do an R. Kelly on your seed, on your little baby girl. I would like to tinkle on her."
The station's owner, a unit of Clear Channel Communications Inc., said it found his statements "wholly unacceptable" and fired DJ Star from WWPR-FM (Power 105) on Wednesday. The move came after John C. Liu and other enraged officials publicly scolded Star in a news conference and called for police to open up a criminal investigation.
In response, DJ Star was arrested and ordered to surrender his 9mm handgun and target practice permit at police headquarters. The radio personality was arraigned after 11 p.m. Friday and posted $2,000 bail within an hour, authorities said.
"This is a real consequence for Torain and sends a real message to other would-be racist pedophile radio stooges that they are not immune from the law," Liu said.
Police originally had indicated he also would be charged with harassment, but prosecutors decided against it for now, district attorney's spokeswoman Barbara Thompson said.
Star issued an apology for his on-air comments in a statement released Thursday through his lawyer Benjamin Brafman.
"In a moment of frustration, he said something that was inappropriate," Brafman said. "He regrets it and apologizes for it... he certainly never intended to frighten the family."
A rep for radio and TV personality Egypt announced late Saturday that Clear Channel has picked up the syndicated program Live with Tigger & Egypt to replace the Star & Bucwild Show, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. - 10 a.m. ET.
DJ Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, shocked listeners of his syndicated Star & Bucwild Morning Show by calling out DJ Envy of New York’s Hot 97, including making racial comments about his Asian wife and threatening to sexually abuse their four-year-old daughter.
According to transcripts of the broadcast from May 3 through Monday, Star offered $500 to any listener who could provide information about the school attended by Envy’s daughter.
"I will come for your kids," Star said of Envy, according to the transcripts. "I finally got the information on his slant-eyed, whore wife."
Torain also called the couple's child a "little half a lo mein eater" and said he wanted to "do an R. Kelly on your seed, on your little baby girl. I would like to tinkle on her."
The station's owner, a unit of Clear Channel Communications Inc., said it found his statements "wholly unacceptable" and fired DJ Star from WWPR-FM (Power 105) on Wednesday. The move came after John C. Liu and other enraged officials publicly scolded Star in a news conference and called for police to open up a criminal investigation.
In response, DJ Star was arrested and ordered to surrender his 9mm handgun and target practice permit at police headquarters. The radio personality was arraigned after 11 p.m. Friday and posted $2,000 bail within an hour, authorities said.
"This is a real consequence for Torain and sends a real message to other would-be racist pedophile radio stooges that they are not immune from the law," Liu said.
Police originally had indicated he also would be charged with harassment, but prosecutors decided against it for now, district attorney's spokeswoman Barbara Thompson said.
Star issued an apology for his on-air comments in a statement released Thursday through his lawyer Benjamin Brafman.
"In a moment of frustration, he said something that was inappropriate," Brafman said. "He regrets it and apologizes for it... he certainly never intended to frighten the family."
A rep for radio and TV personality Egypt announced late Saturday that Clear Channel has picked up the syndicated program Live with Tigger & Egypt to replace the Star & Bucwild Show, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. - 10 a.m. ET.
