Lohans sue Fox News for defamation over cocaine claims
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 03 February, 2015, 10:34pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 03 February, 2015, 10:34pm
Reuters in New York
Lindsay Lohan and her mother Dina have sued Fox News Network. Photos: Reuters, AFP
Actress Lindsay Lohan and her mother Dina have sued Fox News Network, TV host Sean Hannity and commentator Michelle Fields for defamation over a comment by Fields accusing the Lohans of "doing cocaine" together.
According to a complaint filed in a New York state court on Monday, Fields made the comment during Hannity's show on February 4, 2014, days after Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a heroin overdose.
Fields' comment came in a segment about celebrities whose deaths were linked to substance abuse, the complaint said.
The Lohans said Fields declared it a "matter of fact" they used cocaine together and said the comment and show's theme amounted to a "totally irresponsible and malicious innuendo" to suggest Lindsay Lohan, 28, might join the "obituary list".
Fox News, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox, said: "Our legal team has not reviewed this yet so we cannot comment."
The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and to stop Fox News from distributing the broadcast.
