Perez Hilton sues Black Eyed Peas manager

A new front has opened in the battle between Perez Hilton and the Black Eyed Peas manager accused of hitting him: a civil lawsuit.

The celebrity blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, sued the Peas’ manager in Los Angeles on Wednesday for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He is seeking unspecified damages of more than $25,000.

The suit states Hilton is seeking to protect his rights to free speech and claims Polo Molina attacked him because he made critical comments about the Black Eyed Peas’ new album.

Molina was arrested in Toronto early Monday after he allegedly punched Hilton following a heated argument between the blogger and Black Eyed Peas leader will.i.am. He is due to appear in court on Aug. 5.

An e-mail sent to the group’s publicist was not immediately returned Wednesday.

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because his career plan was to be an attention whore with no actual talent or skills.

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oh my.

What exactly do you think would happen?

Of course he is getting sued, and rightfully so more than likely.

even chelsy handler does`t think he`s funny

He looked like a fool.

he spends a shit load of money on legal cost and gets NADA!

ass to a degree necessary to get him to STFU.

His whole pathetic existence has been spent making money and getting attention by the most vicious pissiness about other people and their problems. Admittedly, celebrities are often not the nicest people and their lives are pretty much fair game by their own choice, but he is the most catty character assassin I can think of.

After what he does on a regular basis, the very idea of seeking money for “humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional and physical distress” is waaaaaay beyond hypocrisy.

As a good friend and political scientist likes to say: "a critic is a eunuch in a whorehouse."

:puke:

what do DUers think of the fact that Hilton, who was having an argument with BEP's Will.I.Am at the time, called the latter a 'fucking faggot', which apparently made the band manager sufficiently angry to punch him? There's a video at http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/watch-video-of-perez-hilton-william-altercation.html

I do not approve of settling arguments with fists...I guess Hilton has a right to sue, although he's milked it for such publicity that it's questionable whether the jury will give him more than a nominal award, like $100. But I was extremely surprised to read of and then hear this. He's since apologized, apparently, but I found myself wondering how things would have gone (media-wise) if roles were reversed. Maybe Perez was channeling Carrie Prejean the other day...