Lucas Mirtl Update, Case Dismissed!?

You make a good point, Dirty Points. 🤣

Update: He’s quitting being an agent because of cancel culture. 

 

“9.00 a.m. on the 23rd of January

The world as I knew it stopped.

My self-worth.

My legacy.

Gone in an instant.

Publicly.

Without a word beforehand.

Not even the courtesy of a phone call.

A press release cold, calculated, and final destroyed everything I had built. It hurt the people closest to me and fractured an entire industry. It was orchestrated by people I once considered family.

The same people I housed when they had nothing.

The people I helped bring here from nothing In a single moment, they took me to nothing.

After I gave everything-after delivering more than anyone could ever ask of an agent, a manager, and a friend.

There were moments when this almost took my life.

And as hard as it is to admit, there were times when giving up felt logical-when the lie spoke louder than the truth, when proof didn't matter, when I was declared guilty in the court of public opinion without evidence, without wrongdoing, without a voice.

But I couldn't do it. I owed that young motorcycle mechanic with $200 to his name at LAX with only a dream, no road map,

No last name that he could fall back on.

His dream couldn't end like that

Not without a fight

In the darkest moments of my life, I was shown the very best of people.

I never asked a single athlete to continue working with me. I didn't believe I was capable in the state I was in—I was surviving one hour at a time. But they never were going to abandon me or my son.

When it was popular to ridicule me, to pile on, to turn away-they stood firm. Broad shoulders built on morals and ethics carried me forward.

It wasn't easy on them.

They took heat.

They defended their choice daily.

And still, they delivered-often without me at the races, without the agent they were used to. We adapted. We made it work.

I am forever indebted-not just to the athletes who stood beside me, but to the friends who stayed as I lost one relationship after another.

I've spent months making sense of what happened and finding a way forward. I faced the world head-on. I stand by every action and every word I have ever spoken.

I never hid behind secrecy.

I never blindsided anyone.

I owned my wins and my mistakes.

And I am proud of what I achieved and helped others achieve.

My goal has always been simple: leave everything better than I found it.

I didn't accept "the way things have always been." I pushed to make the sport what every amateur and every kid dreams of when they turn pro-at every level. I never forgot the sacrifices families make to get their kids there, and I worked with that responsibility at the forefront.

This wasn't just my philosophy.

It was taught to me by my mentors-Scott Sepkovic, Bobby Nichols, Steve Astephen, Steve Ruff, and Steve Mateus.

They shaped me through tough love and honest criticism. We competed at times, but they still cheered for me. That mattered

Through time, reflection, and hard reality, I've made a decision with absolute clarity.

I am stepping away from athlete management while I fight this misuse of cancel culture and the legal system to destroy a person's life.

I have to devote every ounce of energy to proving this is beatable.

I cannot allow those who stood beside me to continue suffering from harassment and threats while I fight and prosecute the very people responsible for them.

This decision is not rooted in guilt.

It is rooted in responsibility.

Even when it isn't in my best interest, I've always protected the riders. I've always stood up for them and guided them through the business of professional sports. That doesn't change now.

I am not asking for sympathy.

I am not trying to sway opinions.

I am writing this to take pride in what I achieved-and to leave something behind for my son.

So that one day, if he can't hear these words from my mouth, he can read them and understand the past eleven months— what his father was, who he was, and what he stood for.

4/6

Thank you to the action sports industry for giving a kid from Kalgoorlie, Australia, his wildest dreams, and for allowing me to find my passion and the ability to make a difference.

I hope everyone finds that in life.

It doesn't last forever-and that's okay.

It just has to happen, and you get to say you did it.

No one can ever take that from you.

Much love,

Lucas Mirtl
______________

89.5 million in negotiated deals in my career.

41 factory contracts negotiated.

13 pro championships.

Lost 2 soldiers in the battlefield (RIP Jim McNeil and Tyrone Gilks).

Represented 52 athletes.

Negotiated and closed on the biggest deal in the history of the sport (mid-term
"extension").

18 X Games gold medals.

1 Olympic gold.”

Wow @aeffertz  - not quoting because of length of post. But the IG is already removed 10 minutes after your post. Mirtl really laying it all out there. Maybe he un-retired as an agent when some rider he was representing said WTF. 

Just spit out my beer at the bar looking at this gif. 

Goddamn it Mav 😂😂

Yeah, no, for sure. There’s delusional, and there’s whatever this dude is..

Yea he definitely used ChatGPT 

I keep thinking about the race at Pala where Jett won and showed all that emotion after this all initially went down. 

We don’t get everything right in this little sport but knowing Mirtl won’t represent a rider again seems like a small win. 

He didn't say he was quitting.  He said he was stepping away to fight this.  What a story and hope we can see it unfold

OK, so none of the very precise things he's accused of is true, and it's all a conspiracy? 

Ah, ok, then...

Does that thing ever gets to court or is it being settled? 

Cooked

Mirtl was never representing the Coonans

It was criminal charges so nothing to settle unless he could pay back what they say he stole.

🤷‍♂️

its a shame we never got pictures of the babysitter

Surely the worst thing to do when you’re in an expensive lawsuit is quit your job? Sorry ‘step away’ from your job?

Isn’t he representing himself now, too? I don’t see how this could end well at all…

Thx.

Did he have anyone left he was representing? Easy to step away when there’s nothing to do anyway?

All of that, and he still doesn't get it. Just because you helped close deals and secure big contracts and paydays, Doesn't. Mean. You. Can. Steal. From. Your. Clients.

Bad shit happens to bad people when they do bad things. 

ChatGPT doesn't write that poorly....

I believe he was still representing Masterpool

You could be right on that. Is Masterpool riding for anyone this year, or doing his own thing again?  I don’t recall seeing anything since he was testing with Star a couple months ago. Probably tough to get a ride if Mertil was still your agent. 

I couldn’t agree more.  He is clearly in a bad place mentally. 

You can't fire me, I quit! 

What's the agent take on the nothing that masterpool signed for this year anyway? 

This guy is textbook cluster B.... The subtle hinting at suicide is very typical. He's never going to change. 

Fine work convincing Honda to extend Jett’s contract for millions, I’m sure that was a tough sell. 

I don’t know why it bothers me seeing an agent (now former) take credit for “closing” a deal between a desirable product (the rider) and a team  or personal sponsor. Completely bloated IMO. 

Jett was really on the ropes b4 mirts stepped in and secured that deal with Honda 

"If you break up with me I'm gonna kill myself"

He's been saying this shit the entire time too, it's gross. Stop trying to put blood on someone else's hands and go talk to a therapist or something. There's a constant in all his posts. It's always "look at what I've done and accomplished, why would I steal?" None of it is "What I'm being sued for is bullshit because ___" and always leans into weaponizing being a father of a young child as collateral because he's gonna off himself. The last slide of the Instagram post was a picture of his kid and him.

Yeah okay....

Anyway I totally forgot about this till I saw the thread bump...