Plus-sized professional prevaricator* Perez Hilton is heading back to court yet again! He’s being sued for $25 million by a geriatric nurse named Diane Wargo for publishing her name and e-mail address last December, after she sent him a very impolite e-mail from her work address:
Perez you are a FAT GAY PIG! Angelina is a ugly whore! You love her because she is a fag lover! Her brother is a gay little jerk just like your fat ugly ass! MANGELINA is a digusting gross skank!
Okay, so she’s no Oscar Wilde. Or even Oscar the Grouch…
Later that day, Wargo was fired from her job at the Menorah Park Center for Senior Living in Cleveland, and she says she’s been deluged with threats and invective from Hilton’s readers. According to her suit, he violated his own privacy policy by not getting her permission to give out her personal information. But according to Hilton’s lawyer, that policy only applies to blog comments, not e-mails, and Wargo had no expectation of privacy rights.
Gosh, this all sounds so familiar… Oh yeah, now I remember! As we told you back in April, the portly pap-plunderer is suing lesser-known scumblogger Jonathan Jaxson for, among other things, giving out Hilton’s cell phone number. Here’s the first part of Hilton’s complaint, courtesy of the Smoking Gun:
Hiding behind various aliases and intentional falsehoods, Defendant Jonathan Wayne Lewandowski, aka Jonathan Jaxon, aka Jonathan Taylor (”Jaxson”), an Internet blogger, embarked on a campaign to intentionally and maliciously interfere with [Mario] Lavandeira’s business by publishing a continuous onslaught of defamatory statements and publishing Lavandeira’s private cell phone number, while encouraging people to call that number to harass him. This conduct by Jaxson defamed Lavandeira and caused him to suffer extreme business interruption and constant harassment.
See how that works? If you violate Perez Hilton’s privacy and interfere with his ability to make a living, he’ll sue you. And if you say something that displeases Perez Hilton, he’ll invade your privacy and interfere with your ability to make a living.
Problem?
*Look it up, Mario.
He’s such a bitch.
Shocking language coming from a nurse. And a geriatric one at that. How old was she? 75? 80? My grandmother never had anything bad to say about anyone. Except “The Japs”.
Sorry I forgot to change that back. I know it’s lame already. I SAID I WAS SORRY!
Mario’s 15 minutes are up. Time to switch channels.
I H A T E Perez Hilton… but love that asterisk.
Whether or not you like Perez,* I’ve never understood the predilection for people to go on a site that they know they hate, and slam it. Repeatedly. If someone’s alleged gayness, fatness, manliness, smarter-than-you-ness or whatever bothers you, don’t visit the freakin’ site. Like, duh. Don’t these people know you can type different addresses into that long space at the top? And visit other sites?!?!
*Full disclosure: I confess reading the stuff on his site is a guilty net pleasure of mine, even though I don’t necessarily like/agree with it.
PS to Pasta: I think they learn it from the patients. I recently visited my grandmother in the nursing home and was glad that her little religious ears are pretty deaf right now, because the woman next to her and her visiting husband were swearing at each other like an ep of the Sopranos.
Perez Hilton is a made-up name!?!
We’ll Diana wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed by sending an e-mail from work. I guess she never heard of Google.
That being said, Pen_s Hilton will get his due one day. Karma always follows second hand a__wipes like this.
He is another receipent of Mr. Sleepyhead’s mantra: STFU
I loved it when he posted recently about one of the Superbad stars looking a little pudgy and possibly in need of a diet intervention.
Wow, Perez, lose a little bit of weight and suddenly you’re allowed to preach to every fatty out there! He tried desperately to make it sound like he was good-natured about his weight back in the day but I’m sure he wasn’t sitting around wondering “why hasn’t anyone told me to diet?”
rachael g - yeah i didn’t think his comments about the superbad actor was very nice. that was rude, but on another topic.. that nurse shouldn’t have sent the email from her WORK! if she really hates him, don’t go to the site ya know?
My coworker likes to read it so I’ve seen some of it…all it looks like to me is a guy ripping people and displaying the most basic skills of paint shop pro.
Test
Thanks for my word of the day (yeah, I had to look it up, big deal!) Simon!
Paint Shop Pro? Microsoft Paint!
Definite hypocrisy.
After you.
Kastafarian - Doesn’t ‘geriatric nurse’ mean she takes care of the elderly? And not that she herself is old? Though I have to admit, that would be rather cool, to have an old lady take on Perez Hilton
I would even consider reading his posts to see how he is handling being taken to the cleaners by a granny.
Uhhhh…
HAHAHA! Perez Hilton! HAHAHAHA He’s such a joke. Really, a very sad man. I hope he loses both cases. His lawyer must be loaded though, he is always in some sort of legal battle.
i used to love his website but i don’t know … he seems really harsh against people he has a beef with and then kisses other celebs butts (umm … madonna??). thanks for pointing out his latest hypocrisy.
Hypocrite perhaps, but that woman deserved to be fired for using her employer’s e-mail system to send a bigoted flame. It reflects as poorly on her employer as it does on her.