Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer filed a defamation suit against Deadspin owner G/O Media Inc., alleging the sports-news website falsely reported that he fractured a woman’s skull, in Manhattan federal court.
The online publication “capitalized on a false accusation” against Bauer “to continue an unrelenting attack” against him “with the purpose of humiliating him and ruining his baseball career,” according to the complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
“Deadspin persisted in publishing defamatory falsehoods even after other publications, including Deadspin’s own source, corrected their coverage,” Bauer alleges.
The complaint, which ...
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