Attorneys for Jeff Shell have responded to claims made by R.J. Cipriani, accusing the Las Vegas gambler and whistleblower of defamation and extortion in a brand new countersuit on Monday.
The transfer comes after Cipriani sued the Paramount Skydance president for $150 million over allegedly failing to pay for 18 months of disaster communications providers. Cipriani additionally accused Shell of revealing materials, private details about Paramount’s $7.7 billion UFC media rights deal and plans to submit a sweetened provide for Warner Bros. Discovery.
The cross-complaint, which was filed within the Superior Court docket of Los Angeles, claims that Cipriani used their mutual lawyer Patricia Glaser to cozy as much as Shell, falsely claimed that he was serving to him after which extorted the chief in an try and extract a large payday.
“He thought he might manipulate Shell, the President of Paramount Skydance
Company, into paying tens of millions in hush cash to maintain Cipriani from sabotaging
Shell’s popularity. He positioned a high-stakes guess that, if he concocted an totally false story that Shell had disclosed confidential particulars about Paramount’s enterprise, Shell would pay Cipriani a ransom to maintain him from going public along with his heinous lies,” the grievance states. “However Shell referred to as his bluff: Shell had disclosed no such data, and he refused to pay a dime. Beneath black-letter California regulation, Cipriani’s use of threats to extract cash was extortion. And Cipriani’s false and incendiary accusations within the press and to numerous others that Shell had violated securities regulation are defamation per se.”
Shell is looking for an unspecified quantity of compensation for all damages and losses brought on by Cipriani’s accusations.
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