Justin Bieber is trying to collect at least $ 20 million in damages in a defamation lawsuit filed against two Twitter users who alleged in social media posts that the singer sexually assaulted them, claiming Bieber vehemently denies and says they are ” factually impossible “in documents it has released.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, names two “Jane Does” as defendants, identified by their Twitter account names, @ItsnotKadi and @danielleglvn (the last account to have been removed since) and their names on the networks. social (Kadi and Danielle). Bieber’s attorneys filed the lawsuit in California state court for Los Angeles County.
According to the complaint, the allegations made by two Twitter users about Bieber are “objectively impossible and refuted both by indisputable documentary evidence and by the individuals’ own admissions.” The lawsuit also suggested that the two Twitter accounts were either run by the same person or launched a coordinated attack.
“It is very clear that these two people are trying to capitalize on the climate of fear that pervades the entertainment industry, Hollywood, and corporate America, making it an open season for anyone to make any claim (no matter how vile, without supportive and demonstrably false)) about anyone without consequences, ”said Bieber’s lawsuit.
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He continues, “However, Bieber will not stand idly by as the Defendants try to attract attention and fame for themselves, recklessly spreading malicious lies that he engaged in heinous criminal conduct by attacking the Defendants, and Bieber is leading this defamation / defamation action will clear your name and set the record straight. “
Regarding Danielle’s claim that Bieber sexually assaulted her at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas, on March 9, 2014, the lawsuit states that Bieber did not stay at the hotel in March 2014 and that “there are multiple witnesses and documentary evidence to dispute Danielle’s malicious lie.
Bieber addressed that accusation in a Twitter thread on June 21, saying, “Rumors are rumors, but sexual abuse is something I don’t take lightly.” The singer wrote that “there is no truth to this story” and provided emails, receipts, and articles showing that he stayed at an Airbnb the night of the alleged assault and at a Westin hotel the following night. According to the lawsuit, Bieber and then-girlfriend Selena Gomez attended SXSW on March 9 and photographed him leaving the scene with Gomez.
Kadi’s accusation, whom the lawsuit describes as a “superfan” and a “Belieber,” is “a complete fabrication, an elaborate hoax,” according to the complaint.
In a tweet on Sunday, Kadi wrote: “I think Danielle, I am also a victim of sexual assault by Justin Bieber.” According to her post, on May 5, 2015, around 2:30 a.m., she was invited to Bieber’s room at the Langham Hotel in New York before being sexually assaulted. According to the lawsuit, at the time, Bieber was at the Met Gala post-party with “dozens of witnesses.”
Bieber’s suit also accuses Kadi of seeking fame, citing a pinned December 2018 tweet on his Twitter account that says “I want to star in a Netflix series! Twitter do your thing.” The lawsuit also cites Kadi tweets in which he says he has never met Bieber; That includes, according to the lawsuit, “I swear that if we don’t meet, I’ll find you and f— you @justinbieber #JustinForMMVA” and “@justinbieber … you’re so pretty that I love you !!! I’ll pay you for raping me, okay ?
In follow-up posts, Kadi has insisted that his allegations are factual. “‘Please say you are lying’ NO! I will not tell any lies. I keep my words. It happened and I will not allow believers to intimidate me into denying it. PS: I am NOT afraid of any lawsuit,” he wrote on 22nd December. June. On Tuesday, he posted, “All the evidence and evidence is not for me to show, so why should it bother me? My attorney doesn’t get it from anyone else.
Defamation and defamation lawsuits generated by social media posts are not uncommon.
For example, in 2015, actor James Woods filed a $ 10 million libel suit against an anonymous Twitter user who had called Woods “a cocaine addict.” (That was resolved two years later, after the defendant’s death.) Meanwhile, the conservative politician Woods was sued for defamation in a 2016 tweet in which he posted a photo of a woman at a Donald Trump rally giving A Nazi salute with the title. , “The so-called #Trump ‘Nazi’ is an agitator / operative #BernieSanders” – name a Sanders follower who had been incorrectly identified in a news report. The case was dismissed after Woods’ attorneys successfully argued that his tweet was raised as a question, not an indictment.
