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Justin Bieber is seeking to collect at least $20 million in damages in a defamation lawsuit filed against two Twitter users who alleged in posts on the social network that the singer sexually assaulted them — claims that Bieber vehemently denies and said says are “factually impossible” based on documents he has made public.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, names as defendants two “Jane Does,” who are identified by their Twitter account names, @ItsnotKadi and @danielleglvn (the latter account which has since been deleted) and their names on social media (Kadi and Danielle). Bieber’s attorneys filed the suit in California state court for the County of Los Angeles.
According to the complaint, the accusations by two Twitter users about Bieber are “factually impossible, and disproven both by indisputable documentary evidence and the individuals’ own admissions.” The lawsuit also suggested the two Twitter accounts were run by the same person or launched a coordinated attack.
“It is abundantly clear that these two individuals are trying to capitalize on the climate of fear permeating the entertainment industry, Hollywood and corporate America, whereby it is open season for anyone to make any claim (no matter how vile, unsupported, and provably false) about anyone without consequence,” Bieber’s lawsuit said.
It continues, “However, Bieber will not stand idly by while Defendants attempt to get attention and fame for themselves, by recklessly spreading malicious lies that he engaged in egregious criminal conduct by assaulting Defendants, and Bieber is therefore bringing this defamation/libel action to clear his name and to set the record straight.”
Regarding Danielle’s claim that Bieber sexually assaulted her at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas, on March 9, 2014, the lawsuit states that Bieber did not stay at the hotel in March 2014 and that “there are multiple witnesses and documentary evidence to dispute Danielle’s malicious lie.”
Bieber addressed that allegation in a Twitter thread on June 21, saying, “Rumors are rumors but sexual abuse is something I don’t take lightly.” The singer wrote that “there is no truth to this story” and provided emails, receipts and articles showing he stayed at an Airbnb on the night of the alleged assault and at a Westin hotel the next night. According to the lawsuit, Bieber and then-girlfriend Selena Gomez both attended SXSW on March 9 and that he was photographed leaving the venue with Gomez.
The accusation by Kadi — whom the lawsuit describes as a “superfan” and a “Belieber” — is “a complete fabrication, an elaborate hoax,” according to the complaint.
