Clayton Morris

Clayton Morris (born December 31, 1976) is an American real estate investor and host of the Investing in Real Estate podcast. He is a former co-host of The Daily Buzz and Good Day Philadelphia on Fox's WTXF-TV who moved to co-host Fox & Friends on Fox News Channel in 2009. He covered consumer technology for Fox and hosted weekly technology segments for Fox News Radio and Fox News. On September 4, 2017, he left Fox News.[2][3]

Clayton Morris
Morris in 2009
Born (1976-12-31) December 31, 1976
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Pittsburgh
Occupation
  • Television presenter
  • real estate investor
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2010)​
Children3
Websitewww.claytonmorris.com

Morris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Wilson High School in Spring Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (today West Lawn, Pennsylvania). He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999.[4] He was a frequent guest-panelist on the Fox News late-night satire show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.

Lawsuits

In March 2019, investors filed more than two dozen lawsuits in Indiana and New Jersey, claiming that Morris was running a Ponzi scheme involving the sales of some houses in C- and D-class neighborhoods through his investment company, Morris Invest, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The investors claim they were sold rental properties which Morris Invest promised to rehabilitate and rent out, earning them rental income. Some claim they later discovered the properties they received rental income from for several months were boarded up and vacant and they began receiving city code and country health department violations. Others found they had purchased vacant lots, small shacks or buildings that were falling down.[5]

By July 2019, Morris had moved the family to a resort town on the coast of Portugal. The Morrises say they and several members of their family also lost money because of the underhanded business practices of former business partner Bert Whalen of Oceanpointe Investments. Whalen is accused of taking money entrusted to him for purchases, rehabilitations, and property management costs and forging documents when asked for updates and receipts. The Morrises intend to fight the suits from overseas. Federal and state law enforcement officials would not comment on whether or not there was a criminal investigation.[6]

In March 2020, Clayton Morris lost a $7.2 million copyright infringement lawsuit against HoltonWiseTV. The lawsuit, filed in Federal Court by Morris in October 2019, stemmed from HoltonWiseTV's production of a three-hour documentary investigating the alleged involvement of Morris in various real estate scams.[7][8]

In May 2020, the state of Indiana filed a civil lawsuit against Clayton Morris, among others, for violating Indiana's deceptive sales and home loan acts in real estate deals involving more than 150 properties in Marion County.[9]

Personal life

He and his wife, Natali,[10][11] have three children and lived in Maplewood, New Jersey[12] until 2019 when they moved to Portugal.[6]

References
  1. Yu, Justin (October 21, 2010). "The 404 692: Where NDC strikes back (podcast)". CNET. Archived from the original on August 13, 2012.
  2. Kusma, Tyler (September 3, 2017). "Clayton Morris Leaving Fox News". TKNN. Archived from the original on September 4, 2017.
  3. Ariens, Chris (September 4, 2017). "Clayton Morris Leaving Fox News". Adweek. Archived from the original on October 24, 2017.
  4. "Clayton Morris profile". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on March 21, 2009. Retrieved September 29, 2010.
  5. Cook, Tony; Evans, Tim (March 26, 2019). "Investors say ex-'Fox & Friends' host turned them into unwitting slumlords". The Indianapolis Star. Archived from the original on June 16, 2019.
  6. Cook, Tony; Evans, Tim (July 13, 2019). "Ex-Fox & Friends co-host Clayton Morris leaves country amid fraud allegations, lawsuits". USA Today. Archived from the original on July 14, 2019 – via MSN.
  7. Evans, Tim; Cook, Tony (January 6, 2020). "Ex-Fox & Friends host Clayton Morris seeks $7 million from critic of Indy real estate deals". The Indianapolis Star.
  8. "Morris v. Wise, et al. (1:19-cv-02467), Ohio Northern District Court". PacerMonitor. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  9. Evans, Tim (May 6, 2020). "Former 'Fox & Friends' host Clayton Morris, partner are accused of deceptive home sales". The Indianapolis Star.
  10. "Video - FoxNews.com". Video.foxnews.com. July 31, 2010. Archived from the original on August 4, 2010. Retrieved September 29, 2010.
  11. "Twitter: Natali Del Conte on her baby". Twitter. Retrieved September 29, 2010.
  12. Cardwell, Diane (January 21, 2013). "LEDs Emerge as a Popular 'Green' Lighting". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 19, 2017. 'One day I randomly walked into a Home Depot and thought, LED — when did that happen?' said Clayton Morris, 36, a host of Fox & Friends Weekend, who was buying the bulbs in Vauxhall as part of his project to slowly replace the incandescent light bulbs in his Maplewood home.
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