December 18, 2024
Tiffany Haddish has been awarded more than $95,000 in legal fees after her ex-boyfriend’s defamation lawsuit was dismissed.
Tiffany Haddish to pay nearly $100,000 in legal fees after ex-boyfriend lost his defamation suit against the comedian.
Recently acquired court documents discover that Haddish was awarded $95,198 in legal fees after successfully settling Tresa Morris’ defamation claims; In Touch Weekly reports. The ruling comes more than a year after Morris filed a lawsuit against Haddish and fellow comedian Aries Spears, alleging they made false statements about her in defense of a lawsuit by her two children.
Morris claimed her children sued Haddish and Spears, accusing them of sexualizing children in old comedy sketches had a year after Morris’ daughter dropped her initial lawsuit against Haddish.
In Morris’ lawsuit, she alleged that Haddish’s legal team defamed her during her children’s case by making “slanderous, libelous, and libelous comments to the press.” Morris accused Haddish and Spears of trying to make it seem like she was trying to extort her. to sue the children, who were adults at the time.
“The statements made against Triza Morris are a malicious, defamatory and defamatory representation of Triza Morris,” Morris’ complaint added. “Aries Spears Claimed Trisa Morris Was an Extortionist and Shock Artist”.
“Trizah Morris never extorted or attempted to extort Tiffany Haddish and/or Aries Spears,” her lawsuit states.
Morris claimed that the allegations against him had ruined his reputation and caused him to suffer personally and professionally.
“Trizah Morris’ name and photo appeared in blogs and media reports available worldwide as Tiffany Haddish’s scheming, scheming, cheating ‘ex-girlfriend,'” her lawsuit reads.
In her defense, Haddish argued that Morris had signed a settlement agreement with her children that resolved all claims between the parties.
After the children’s lawsuit went to arbitration, it was determined that Morris’ settlement agreement released all claims against Haddish, barring her from suing for defamation. As a result, Haddish received $95,000 in legal fees, while Morris paid Spears $50,000.
It was also found that the friend. not Haddish or Spearsmade the settlement payment. The friend, who ran a comedy camp attended by grown children and where Haddish had previously volunteered, agreed to pay $232,000.
Of that, $184,000 was given to a charity of Morris’s family’s choosing, while $48,000 was placed in a trust account for Morris’ then-minor son.
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