Mel B’s ex-husband is coming after her with a major new lawsuit.
13.05.2024 - 18:41 / deadline.com
Judge Judy wants inquiring minds to know that a recent National Enquirer article claiming she is seeking a new trial for the long-convicted Menendez brothers is “unequivocally false.”
So false in fact, that longtime small screen magistrate is taking the Enquirer and InTouch Weekly owner Accelerate360 to court for defamation. The lawsuit that the never litigation shy Judy Justice host and her lawyer Eric M George filed today in state court in Florida seeks unspecified “general and special damages,” and a jury trial.
Just because the damages aren’t specific, don’t think Judy Sheindlin is looking for pennies on the dollar.
“When you fabricate stories about me in order to make money for yourselves with no regard for the truth or the reputation I’ve spent a lifetime cultivating, it’s going to cost you,” Judge Judy told Deadline this AM of the InTouch and Nation Enquirer articles of last month claiming she believed Lyle and Erik Menéndez had not received fair justice in their 1996 second trial for the murder of their parents in 1989. “When you’ve done it multiple times, it’s unconscionable and will be expensive. It has to be expensive so that you will stop.”
The allegations by Roy Rosselló, a former member of boy band Menudo, in a recent Peacock Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed docuseries that then RCA executive José Enrique Menéndez repeatedly raped him as a teen has put a new emphasis on the Menéndez brothers’ claims that the shotgun killing of their parents was to stop the ongoing sexual abuse in their Beverly Hills home and not to inherit millions. Netflix has announced they are working on a documentary about the incarcerated for life brothers, and of course Ryan Murphy is making the case the subject of the second
Mel B’s ex-husband is coming after her with a major new lawsuit.
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