Celeb News: Sean Penn sues Lee Daniels for domestic abuse claims

Hector

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Sean Penn Sues ‘Empire’ Co-Creator for $10 Million Over Abuse Remarks

Actor Sean Penn filed a $10 million defamation suit against Lee Daniels, co-creator of Fox’s hit series “Empire,” contending that Daniels falsely accused Penn of hitting women.

The lawsuit was filed in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The comment came in an interview Daniels gave to The Hollywood Reporter, in which he compared legal troubles faced by “Empire” star Terrence Howard to those faced by other actors.

Daniels said that Howard “ain’t done nothing different than Marlon Brando or Sean Penn, and all of the sudden he’s some f—in’ demon. That’s a sign of the time, of race, of where we are right now in America.”

The lawsuit states that “in purporting to ‘defend’ the ongoing legal and related troubles of actor Terrence Howard … who has reportedly, and publicly, admitted to physically abusing at least one woman and reportedly been arrested approximately five times for violent acts against women — Daniels has falsely asserted and/or implied that Penn is guilty of ongoing, continuous violence against women. Nor has Penn admitted to ‘slap[ping]’ a woman or abusing others (as Howard has also reportedly admitted, reportedly asserting that he was acting in self-defense).”

Penn’s lawsuit says that Daniels’ statements were “egregious” on several levels, including that “in his purported ‘defense’ of Howard, Daniels not only appears to acknowledge Howard’s guilt, he also seems to condone Howard’s reported misconduct.”

It notes that even though Penn has had brushes with the law, “Penn (unlike Howard) has never been arrested, much less convicted, for domestic violence, as his ex-wives (including Madonna) would confirm and attest.”

The complaint says that Daniels’ “false and defamatory” statements have “caused Penn great anguish and emotional distress and have exposed him to pre-judgments and false judgments,” injuring his credibility and reputation.

http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/sea...on-1201599776/

Oop...

trainsskyscrapers

Karma has a funny way of working everything out. He'll think twice about dragging actors through the mud. I wonder what Monique has to say.

BrooklynBoy

Maybe he said the wrong name, but mess at him defending the abuse.

Roman Holiday

Lee is a petty queen.

Monique and her Emmy won.

rogueguy

Sean's an arrogant, well documented piece of women beating garbage, this isn't going to turn out the way he's expecting it to.

Qwerty1234

Sue his dumb ass. Lee Daniels should have to pay just for the idiocy of his remarks. Smdh.

rogueguy

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Lee is a dumbass but there is a level of truth to what he was saying and he definitely isn't lying on Sean

Sean is going to lose this case

Hi_im_new

Out of all the white guys he could have used to make his point, why single out sean when he's never been charged and there's no definitive proof.

Anyway, these black celebrities kill me pulling the race card when it's convient for them, yet they have no problem shucking and jiving every other day of the week.

Hope he gets his 10 mill.

Petty Bourgeoisie

Yes, Lee, Terrence Howard IS "some ****in' demon." Like

Lee sis wyd

Circinus

Why even bring this up, Lee? You're trying use a wife-beater, who happens to be starring in the biggest hit of the year, as some example of racism in America? A mess

Grown K

I'm more shocked about the fact that Lee is defending Terrence.

Travis Bickle

Madonna thing never was confirmed.

RainDreamer

So he's defending Terrence (by using the race card at that) who's admitted to beating up women?

ArtForFreedom

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Originally posted by Travis Bickle

Madonna thing never was confirmed.

Nor denied

wanderlust

Ive always loved the idea of sean and M getting back together but I recently found an original newspaper scan from the 80s that even said a lot worse things about sean than what I've read before. including madonna's old boyfriend flat out saying Sean almost killed him because he was so jealous.

and having madonna & her old boyfriends as "target photos" to practice on when he was shooting in their own house in their basement that he turned into one of those target ranges.. theres people who saw Sean attack madonna in restaurants. I can't imagine all of that is made up with all of the witnesses. the original scan if youre interested here

Vin

Both Sean Penn and Lee Daniels are trash, Lee Daniels moreso.

...Vin

Hilly

Why is Sean pissed? he did it, ask Madonna
Lee didn't lie but defending Terrence for what he did

Legendtina

He used to whoop Madonna's ass tho.

Roman Holiday

It's even more hysterical because Terrence has no problem talking about how being gay is a choice and how his character on Empire is speaking for the minority (homophobes).

Have some self-respect Lee.

PrettyHurts

all men are garbage

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