Big Daikon wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 10:19 am

The mother of George Floyd’s daughter says she plans to file a $250 million defamation lawsuit against Kanye West for suggesting that Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose, lawyers announced Tuesday.

Roxie Washington plans to file suit on behalf of her and Floyd’s minor daughter Gianna Floyd, accusing West of making the comments “to promote his brands, and increase marketing value and revenue for himself, his business partners and associates,” the Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon & Dixon Attorneys at Law — which are repping the family — said in a statement.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/18/george-fl ... SocialFlow

1. Can you defame a dead person?
2. Is this case total BS?

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:44 pm

Random Dude wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:14 pm

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 10:19 am

The mother of George Floyd’s daughter says she plans to file a $250 million defamation lawsuit against Kanye West for suggesting that Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose, lawyers announced Tuesday.

Roxie Washington plans to file suit on behalf of her and Floyd’s minor daughter Gianna Floyd, accusing West of making the comments “to promote his brands, and increase marketing value and revenue for himself, his business partners and associates,” the Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon & Dixon Attorneys at Law — which are repping the family — said in a statement.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/18/george-fl ... SocialFlow

1. Can you defame a dead person?
2. Is this case total BS?

1. I can't be bothered reading up on it but Alex Jones claimed the dead Sandy Hook kids were crisis actors- not sure if that was seen as defaming them but if so they 'might' have a case.

2. I could see the family being pissed at Kanye for saying that, could also see the chance for a big payout motivating them. It's probably a bit of both, I bet some lawyer approached them saying Kanye would likely settle out of court to save the hassle of a court case and they'd get rich.

Quick research this afternoon.
1.

Under common law and according to the definition of this defamation, deceased individuals cannot be defamed. Defamation is defined as an act or statement that damages one’s reputation. The dead do not have reputations to damage. The memory of a deceased person can be damaged, but this is not addressed under the tort of defamation.

https://www.minclaw.com/legal-resource- ... o%20damage.

2.

Kanye West has made a $2 million donation to support the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, a representative for West told CNN. The donation includes funding for legal fees for Arbery and Taylor’s families, along with black-owned businesses in crisis in his native Chicago and other cities. West’s representative said he established a 529 education plan to fully cover college tuition for Gianna Floyd, the 6-year-old daughter of George Floyd.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/04/ente ... index.html

(As you said, a lawyer probably suggested the idea.)

3. This Kanye stuff is really bizarre.

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 4:29 pm

Random Dude wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 4:02 pm 3. I rarely follow celebrity news, mostly because it's, as you say, bizarre.

Generally a good move. Ye popped up on my radar recently and the shit show has been hilariously absurd.