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Matt LeBlanc's Unfriendly Defamation Suit
Matt LeBlanc's tabloid tell-all may have told more than it should have.
The former Friends star has been sued for defamation by a stripper who claims LeBlanc made false statements about her sexual aggression and the duo's level of intimacy in an August 2005 National Enquirer story.
Stephanie Stephens filed the suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court last Tuesday, claiming the erstwhile Joey Tribbiani "did intentionally slander" her by making "false statements" to the tabloid about a boozy encounter in a story titled "Matt LeBlanc: My Wild Night with a Stripper."
The story, for which the then married LeBlanc not only fessed up details of a drunken night at a strip club but also posed for remorseful, hand-wrenching photos, chronicled a near tryst with Stephens during a boys' night out in Canada.
"The stripper was all over me," he told the Enquirer. "I was drinking and she was crossing the line... She was in my face, pushing her breasts into me and grabbing my hands to go all over her body. She was telling me to caress her, and in my head, I'm thinking, What's going on?"
While the paper cited a source claiming LeBlanc's behavior was fueled by both alcohol and cocaine, the actor strongly denied the latter claim.
"If I had been sober, perhaps I would have acted quicker, but I was pretty drunk," LeBlanc said in the article. "When I realized [what] was unfolding, I felt I was being careless and irresponsible, and I had to get the hell out of there. The guys said a trap had been set for me, and I fell right in it."
According to Stephens, the actor's retelling was not only inaccurate but also impugned her character, despite the fact that she was never identified in the story as the stripper in question.
In her lawsuit, she denies that LeBlanc was simply a hapless, strip-joint-patronizing victim, claiming she never requested he "caress" her or engage in "sexual touching" and never gave the star a lap dance--at least, not while at work.
What's the reason for LeBlanc's seemingly inexplicable tell-all? Stephens claims in her lawsuit that his narrative is baloney, a preemptive maneuver to cover up more scandalous behavior.
In court papers, Stephens says that any touching between her and LeBlanc did not take place "in a private room," as LeBlanc recounted to the Enquirer. She also denies that LeBlanc's "night of sexual debauchery happened at her place of employment." Instead, the suit claims "all sexual contact between [LeBlanc] and [Stephens] took place in the privacy of [Stephens'] residence."
Stephens is seeking unspecified damages from the star, claiming his Enquirer confession caused her loss of wages, loss of earning capacity and general damage. She has not named the tabloid in her suit.
LeBlanc has yet to speak out about the lawsuit.
Last January, just four months after the story hit the newsstands, the star separated from his wife of nearly three years, Melissa McKnight. LeBlanc filed for divorce in March, with his publicist calling the split "amicable" and saying the estranged couple would share custody of their two-year-old daughter, Marina.
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