ABOVE: Black Eyed Peas suck, Perez Hilton was right–but he’s still a jerk.
Perez Hilton fought back yesterday by filing a civil lawsuit against the Black Eyed Peas manager accused of punching him outside a Toronto, Canada nightclub, according to an Associated Press report.
According to the AP report, the celebrity blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, sued the Peas’ road manager in Los Angeles for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He is seeking unspecified damages of more than $25,000.
Hilton claims in the suit, filed in Los Angeles, that he is trying to protect his First Amendment rights to free speech. He says that Peas road manager Polo Molina struck him after he got in a heated argument with the group’s frontman will.i.am. over critical comments that he had made about the Peas’ new album on his blog. Molina was arrested for the assault in Toronto on Monday.
The Black Eyed Peas’ latest album “The E.N.D,” has proved popular nevertheless, ranking number one on last week’s Billboard magazine’s charts for R&B/Hip-Hop albums.
MusicVixen says...
I agreed with Hilton when he said the new Black Eyed Peas album sucks, but he was basically begging someone to hit him by using homophobic slurs and insults while fighting with will.i.am.
Nobody involved in this fight was innocent.
