Last week podcasters Shannon Sharpe and Chad Ochocinco got hit with a $20 million defamation of character lawsuit after falsely claiming a woman got divorced because of her behavior at an Usher concert [click here if you missed that].
The case has been settled...
From Front Office Sports
Shannon Sharpe and his legal team have settled their second multimillion-dollar lawsuit in less than a month.
A $20 million suit against Sharpe, Nightcap talk show partner Chad Ochocinco, and Sharpe’s Shay Shay Media from Jimalita Tillman was dismissed with prejudice by a U.S. District Court in Illinois, according to court documents.
The suit derived from an incident at an Usher concert, when the singer fed cherries to Tillman in the front row. In her defamation suit, Tillman alleged Sharpe and Ochocinco disseminated “false and defamatory” statements on Nightcap that her husband was filing for divorce after her “fan engagement moment” with the singer went viral. In fact, Tillman wrote she was not married at the time of the incident, is not married now and is not going through a divorce.
The terms of the settlement were not clear. “There are several inaccurate media reports that speculate on monies being pad to Miss Tillman,” Sharpe wrote on Instagram Friday night. “These statements are completely false.”
Sharpe’s lawyers in the case did not immediately comment.
3 comments:
Monique and Kat warned him
These two Gossip Gurls
She is a businesswoman. If her settlement wasn't financial, then it is most likely quite creative.
His brand doesn't have much goodwill.
He is going to ride this black woman's back to a comeback.
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