After a recent international media blitz, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is no longer available for press interviews.

“I do not believe that there is going to be any current media availability at this time,” Ford’s newly minted chief of staff Dan Jacobs said when reached by phone on Wednesday. “I can keep you up to date if that changes. But I think at this time, there’s not going to be anything available.”

Jacobs did not provide a reason for the mayor’s sudden change of heart.

The refusal stands in stark contrast to the mayor’s recent television appearances, granting sit-down interviews to several American networks such as CNN, Fox News and NBC’s Today Show as well as the CBC and CP24. Ford and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, also debuted their own show, Ford Nation on Sun News Network, this week. The show was cancelled a day later.

Since Saturday, the Star has submitted more than a half-dozen interview requests to the mayor’s staff and his brother. The Star has repeatedly submitted key unanswered questions to the mayor and his staff related to the multiple scandals that have engulfed Ford’s office, including a video in which the mayor appears to smoke crack and a video in which an angry Ford says he will kill an unknown person.

Those unanswered questions are:

Can you explain the more than two dozen interactions Star sources say have taken place between police and the Ford family in the last eight years?

Who are you referring to in the video when you say, “I’m gonna kill that f---ing guy. I’m telling you, it’s first-degree murder”?

In what context were you making these remarks?

Where and when was this video made?

You mentioned that you were “extremely inebriated” when the video was made. Had you taken any drugs?

The Star also has also submitted outstanding questions about a video that appears to show the mayor smoking crack cocaine and uttering homophobic and racist remarks. The police have confirmed the existence of the video. Police Chief Bill Blair said the contents of the video are “consistent” with media reports, a view repeated by Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer recently.

Those questions are:

Do you understand why this damning video requires a proper and thoughtful explanation?

How well do you know the men who appeared on the Star’s front-page photo on May? (the photo now known to have been taken outside the home at 15 Windsor Rd.)

Did you describe Justin Trudeau using a homophobic slur?

Did you refer to members of your football team as “f---ing minorities”?

Can you explain the two dozen or so police interactions between your family and police?

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Neither Ford’s former chief of staff, Earl Provost, nor his former deputy chief of staff, Sunny Petrujkic, responded to emails this week from the Star with these questions and a request for an interview with the mayor.

The Star’s emails to Doug Ford, who has been at the mayor’s side in every recent interview, have also gone unanswered.

Reached by phone Wednesday, the councillor declined to inform his brother of the Star’s interview request.

“I’m going to say this as nicely as possible — I don’t want the Star calling me any more,” he said.

When asked to pass on an interview request to his brother, Ford replied: “No thank you — I appreciate the phone call.”

When asked why, the councillor laughed. “I don't think I have to tell you,” he said.

Ford arrived at City Hall on Wednesday at 2:50 p.m. and refused to answer any questions from the throng of media waiting outside his office. He gave a thumbs-up to the receptionist inside the glass doors before disappearing into his office.

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