Don Lemon’s lawyer issued a statement following the dismissal of an assault lawsuit against the CNN anchor.
A few years ago, CNN correspondent and host Don Lemon was accused of assaulting a woman over an alleged incident that occurred the year before.
Lemon’s lawyer reacted quickly to the news that the lawsuit had been dismissed nearly three years after it was first filed.
Dustin Hice filed a lawsuit against Don Lemon in August of this year, alleging that the latter assaulted him in a Sag Harbor, New York, bar in 2018.
At the time, the complaint stated that Hice’s “aggressive behaviour” had caused “emotional pain and suffering,” but CNN stood by Lemon and accused Hice of “contempt for CNN” on his social media accounts,
with the lawsuit filing coming after Hice’s “ineffective threats and demands for an exorbitant amount of money from Don Lemon.”
According to rumours, Hice tried to extort $1.5 million from CNN host Wolf Blitzer to prevent a lawsuit from being brought against the network.
Dustin Hice, who filed a lawsuit against the bar in Sag Harbor, New York, in May of 2022, says that after “a lot of inner reflection and a deep dive” into his memory,
he realised that his “recollection of the events” were “not what I thought they were when I filed this lawsuit.” He says he has since changed his story.
In response, Don Lemon’s lawyer Caroline Polisi released a statement commenting on Hice being “finally able to access his memory and recollect the correct version of events on the night when he approached Don Lemon.” The statement goes on:
Dustin Hice was ordered by a federal judge in March to pay $77,000 in sanctions to Lemon after he destroyed and/or tampered with evidence and attempted to bribe witnesses,
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demonstrating a pattern of court conduct violations, as Caroline Polisi refers to “The Court’s ruling.” As expected, the case will not go to trial in June, but Hice’s decision to drop the suit does not free him of the $77,000 debt.
He’ll still be on the hook for the fines.
At the time of this writing, Don Lemon – who recently joined Tim Malone and Trevor Noah of The Daily Show for the traditional White House Correspondents’ Dinner – had not responded to Dustin Hice’s decision to drop the lawsuit.
For the past seven years, he has hosted Don Lemon Tonight on CNN’s weeknight schedule, and has been a constant presence on the network.
Even though he’s been sued, it’s safe to assume he won’t be taking any time off from appearing on television anytime soon.
As a result of Chris Cuomo’s dismissal from CNN, Lemon found himself embroiled in an arbitration case.
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