Trading Spaces star Carter Oosterhouse hired shady internet reputation firm to bury stories

A reality star once accused of sexual harassment is one of dozens of celebrities who have hired a disreputable internet company to bury negative stories about them, a report claims.

Eliminalia, founded by 30-year-old Diego Sánchez, boasts that it will “erase the past” and “help build the future” for its clients, claiming it will remove any misinformation or unwanted information.

Internal records discovered by the washington outletIt found that Eliminalia had high-profile clients in at least 50 countries who paid the company to flood Internet search engines with false positive stories to bury any negative press.

HGTV’s Carter Oosterhouse reportedly hired the company to bury stories in which makeup artist Kailey Kaminsky accused him of trying to force her to perform oral sex on him in 2017.

Oosterhouse, husband of Hollywood star Amy Smart, has always denied the allegations, saying he and Kaminsky were in a consensual “intimate relationship” despite the fact that they reportedly booked Eliminalia for $3,200.

Most of the customers paid the company several thousand dollars, three of whom paid more than $200,000

The firm first pointed to a story in the Hollywood Reporter discussing the claims, according to documents seen by the Washington Post.

Eliminalia, claiming it was the ‘Brussels EU Commission’, said in a legal letter that Oosterhouse’s privacy rights had been violated.

The notice was sent to content delivery company Cloudflare and then forwarded to Amazon Web Services, which hosts the Hollywood Reporter website.

Eliminalia demanded the ‘complete removal and amendment’ of his name from records, and also sent a privacy complaint citing the California Consumer Privacy Act to the Hollywood reporter’s parent company.

A representative for Oosterhouse did not immediately respond to a DailyMail.com request for comment.

His accuser told the Post: “I think it’s misleading, but at the end of the day, he knows what he did.”

The company filed thousands of complaints under false names on behalf of other people, according to the Washington Post.

This included a California biotech entrepreneur who is accused of hiring a hitman to kill a colleague who threatened to expose his frauds.

Serhat Gumrukcu hired the firm in March 2021 to get rid of stories about his 2017 fraud conviction, the Post said.

Eliminalia, founded by Diego Sánchez, 30, (pictured) boasts that it will “erase the past” and “help build the future” for its clients, claiming it will remove any unwanted information.

Oosterhouse, husband of Hollywood star Amy Smart (pictured together in 2019), has always denied the allegations, saying he and Kaminsky were in a consensual “intimate relationship.”

In 2019, the company tried to remove stories about David Legible, the Italian circus clown who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Switzerland in 2017, though he publicly denied the allegations.

Sánchez, the company’s founder, forces employees to sign a confidentiality agreement that threatens them with a $32,000 fine if they divulge how the company works.

Most of the customers paid the company several thousand dollars, three of whom paid more than $200,000.

The cost of targeting a single web page was as low as $590, according to a 2018 contract, and the company was struggling to remove hundreds of web pages for its highest-paying clients.

Eliminalia reported combined revenue of just over 2.5 million euros, or about $2.7 million, in 2020 and 2021, according to public records it filed with the Spanish government.

Kailey Kaminsky (pictured) says Oosterhouse pressured her into giving him oral sex while she was working as a makeup artist on his Carter Can show, but he denies the claims.

The contracts don’t detail Eliminalia’s techniques, and it’s unclear how much the firm tells its clients.

As part of their code of ethics, employees must embrace ‘honesty, care, diligence, professionalism, fairness and integrity’ and comply with all ‘laws, regulations and professional standards’.

Sánchez previously defended the company, writing in Spanish: ‘Eliminalia’s activities have upset many people on the Internet.

‘They think that we veto freedom of expression, that we censor. But they forget that freedom of expression has a limit: the truth.’

“Not everything that is published in black and white is true, and that is why the activity of companies like Eliminalia is necessary.”

Eliminalia did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s requests for comment.