Jan. 31 2024, Printed 5:00 p.m. ET
Lisa Hochstein is demanding her estranged husband Lenny‘s defamation lawsuit in opposition to her will get dismissed, arguing that he is the one who unfold the abuse allegations and never her. Within the paperwork obtained by RadarOnline.com, the Actual Housewives of Miami star stated her ex’s swimsuit needs to be instantly thrown out and that she by no means accused him of giving her the bruise that she posted on social media.
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Lisa says she by no means accused Lenny of home violence in her social media publish.
As his outlet reported — Lenny sued Lisa for defamation in December 2023 over the publish, claiming she falsely accused him of home violence. However Lisa is preventing again.
She stated Lenny’s lawsuit is an “apparent try and claw threads of publicity from the tabloid media he desperately craves” and accused him of “searching for to position his identify within the limelight to sway public opinion in his favor primarily based on his perceived battle for publicity.”
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Lisa stated Lenny’s lawsuit is an “apparent try and claw threads of publicity from the tabloid media he desperately craves,” accusing him of “searching for to position his identify within the limelight to sway public opinion in his favor primarily based on his perceived battle for publicity.”
The Bravolebrity used her publish as proof for why she believed his swimsuit needs to be tossed, saying, “As one can see by the plain studying of the language used within the Put up, there isn’t a printed allegation that Plaintiff abused Defendant” and her caption merely talked about that viewers “might have seen a bruise that was current when Defendant mentioned the divorce together with her castmates throughout an episode of Actual Housewives of Miami.”
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“Clearly, there may be nothing on this Put up that’s defamatory and it doesn’t allege that Plaintiff did something,” Lisa’s paperwork filed on January 26 acknowledged.
In accordance with the RHOM star, Lenny’s the one who revealed how Lisa acquired the bruise, and subsequently, he cannot sue her for defamation.
Lenny claims his cosmetic surgery enterprise has “suffered vital misplaced revenues” over her accusations.
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Lenny “explains in his personal phrases precisely what he recollects taking place and what brought about the bruise, stating: ‘As to the bruise, it took place as a result of [Defendant] as common was yelling at and berating [Plaintiff] when he got here dwelling from work, as she did nearly every day telling him how he by no means does something proper, so [Plaintiff] tried to stroll away and began strolling up the steps and [Defendant] walked in entrance of [Plaintiff] going backwards up the steps so she might proceed yelling in [Plaintiff’s] face and [Defendant] misplaced her steadiness and fell on a stair,” her submitting reads.
She stated that assertion “utterly contradicts and undermines his try to determine a defamation declare” in opposition to her.
“As an alternative, Defendant described how she had a bruise through the events’ divorce and Plaintiff himself substantiated how this occurred throughout an argument between the Events,” Lisa acknowledged.
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As for the defamation declare, the fact TV star stated it “needs to be clearly dismissed” as a result of she by no means alleged he abused her “however as an alternative writes that third-party information businesses made such allegations after studying the Put up.” Lisa stood agency on her stance, including, “Nowhere within the alleged defamatory assertion does Defendant make any allegation of abuse.”
She needs Lenny’s total lawsuit dismissed and to be awarded another reduction the courtroom “deems simply and correct.”
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Lisa and Lenny’s marriage fell aside on RHOM after he acquired caught in a sizzling mic second during which he admitted to dishonest on her with a lady he is now engaged to. The pair’s divorce acquired ugly after they hurled a number of allegations in opposition to one another. The exes are at present preventing over spousal and baby assist and custody of their two minor children.