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<\/p>\nFrank Ocean Wins $14.5 Million Defamation Suit Brought Against Him by His Father<\/b><\/p>\n
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Frank Ocean has won a $14.5 million defamation lawsuit brought against him by his own father. U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson agreed with Ocean that there was not sufficient evidence to prove defamation.<\/p>\n
Calvin Cooksey filed the lawsuit over a Tumblr post Frank wrote in 2016<\/a>\u00a0in the wake of the Orlando massacre.<\/p>\n In the post, Frank accused his dad of using a homophobic slur years and years ago \u2026 when Ocean was a kid.<\/p>\n Frank recalled, \u201cI was 6 years old when I heard my dad call<\/a> our transgender waitress a f****t as he dragged me out of a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn\u2019t be served because she was dirty.\u201d<\/p>\n Cooksey called the story BS and said it\u2019s damaged his financial opportunities in film and music.<\/p>\n Billboard reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Cooksey filed his suit in February 2017, claiming that he tried to get Ocean to remove the post without any success. The former also argued in his complaint that the Tumblr post put him \u201cin the middle of a terrorist attack on the gay<\/a> community,\u201d as well as \u201cruined [Cooksey\u2019s] future financial opportunities in the film and music industries.\u201d<\/p>\n According to a trial brief, Ocean argued not only that his post is substantially true, but also that Cooksey\u2019s suit does not sufficiently provide a category of libel under which the post allegedly falls, nor does it show how Cooksey has been professionally injured.<\/p>\n Ocean swiftly left the courtroom after the verdict was read, and his attorney, Keith Bremer of Bremer Whyte Brown & O\u2019Meara LLP, told\u00a0Law360<\/em>\u00a0that the conclusion of the case was a welcome relief. \u201cI\u2019m happy he can put it behind him,\u201d said Bremer.<\/p>\n The post Frank Ocean Wins $14.5 Million Defamation Suit Brought Against Him by His Father<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n