👀 Arsenio Hall is suing.....

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

Sinead O'Connor Over Accusation of Giving Drugs to Prince

2:00 PM PDT 5/5/2016 by Eriq Gardner

The $5 million defamation lawsuit filed Thursday says O'Connor hardly knows the late music star at all.

Arsenio Hall has brought a $5 million defamation lawsuit against Sinead O'Connor over the singer's recent Facebook post accusing him of being the one to supply Prince with drugs.

In a complaint filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Hall rips into O'Connor as a "desperate, attention-seeker ... now known perhaps as much for her bizarre, unhinged internet rants as for her music."

O'Connor's biggest hit was "Nothing Compares 2 U," a cover version of a Prince composition released in 1990. About a week after Prince died in Minneapolis, O'Connor wrote that Prince was a "long time hard drug user" who "got his drugs over the decades" from Hall.

The television personality says that's absolutely false, and that O'Connor is hardly in any position to know anyhow, having acknowledged that she only met Prince "a couple of times." Hall also states through the lawsuit that he hasn't had any contact with O'Connor in 25 years and that her accusation of criminal conduct is "extraordinarily damaging" to his reputation.

According to the complaint being handled by attorneys Martin Singer and Lynda Goldman, "Ever since O'Connor posed her malicious and reckless lies about Hall on her 'OFFICIAL Facebook page' (where they have been commented on and forwarded thousands of times), her brazen lies have spread like wildfire across the media throughout the United States and the world ... ."

The lawsuit could be complicated by the fact that O'Connor is a citizen of Ireland, but as it proceeds, it will likely examine whether her statements were capable of defamatory meaning and whether she made them with reckless disregard of the truth.

Here's a copy of the full complaint, which besides seeking at least $5 million in compensatory damages also demands a punitive amount as a deterrence to others.

Complaint

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"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

bri20 · ‎03-10-2016

There's something wrong with her...

Venezia · ‎03-09-2010

She's been a nutcase for as long as I can remember - and that's a long time!

jackthebear · ‎03-11-2010

2 has beens wanting to get back in the news was my thought when I saw this crawl on TV yesterday

Laura14 · ‎06-09-2014

I really hope she gets the help she needs and go Arsenio. Way to stick up for yourself and your friend.

Have to add that I find it interesting she is defaming the man who gave her the biggest hit single of her career. Nice tribute. If you've got nothing nice to say, especially after his sudden and unexpected death, for his family's sake just be quiet.

Bird mama · ‎03-12-2010

Good for Arsenio. Even if nothing comes of it, maybe she'll shut up.

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ladyroxanne · ‎03-09-2010

she has always been as crazy as a bedbug/

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

She's a nut case, soon to be a nut case who will owe Arsenio a boat load of money. I say owe because she probably doesnt have two nivkels to rub together.