The Evil Beet,
Jul 16, 2007
DJ Samantha Ronson, known more lately for what her fingers are doing with Lindsay Lohan than what they're doing with a turntable, has struck back against two gossip blogs with a $20 million libel suit.
Ronson, herself a budding celebrity deejay, is striking back at suggestions that cocaine found in Lohan's car after an infamous fender-bender was actually hers.
Named as defendants were Jill Ishkanian, who runs the Sunset Photo and News Agency, and Mario Lavandeira, who blogs as Perez Hilton.
In June, Hilton repeated the cocaine claim that first appeared on CelebrityBabylon.com, a Web site operated by Sunset Photo.
That site claimed Ronson was "making a tidy profit on the side, shilling Lohan, 20, out to photographers eager to get her photo looking passed out and wasted."
It continued: "If that wasn't shocking enough, sources say that it was Ronson who was holding the cocaine later found in Lindsay's car."
First of all, everyone ran that story. Samantha's suing Sunset Photo because, for lack of a better phrase, they started it, and because flat-out accusing someone of doing cocaine is an easy way to wind up on the losing end of a libel suit. She's suing Perez to get back at him for all the mean things he runs about Lindsay, because Lord knows after he settles this suit with X17 et al, he's not going to have a cent to pay her with. She's just trying to make his life miserable. Which is, you know, fine with me.
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