Claim: Wallace Langham was born in Fort Worth, Texas and he pleaded no contest to battery charges and the prosecutors dropped the hate crime.
Evidence: James Wallace Langham II
(1965-03-11) March 11, 1965 (age 55)
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. In March 2000, Langham pleaded no contest to battery charges after beating a gay tabloid reporter (who had allegedly made accusations against Langham's girlfriend's tattoos; the reporter in turn claimed that Langham yelled homophobic slurs at him while he was being beaten) and was ordered to serve three years' probation and to serve 450 hours of community service for gay and lesbian charities, and to donate $10,000 to the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. In exchange for pleading no contest, prosecutors dropped a hate crime charge that had been filed against him.