Nicky Doll is suing actor and political activist Laurence Fox!
The Drag Race France host, whose actual title is Karl Sanchez, has filed a defamation go well with towards Laurence over his feedback in regards to the drag queens who took half within the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
“No level in getting wound up when the kid f–kers need to wind you up. Simply giggle on the deviant little pedos. Eternity is a b–ch,” Laurence wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Hold studying to seek out out what Nicky Doll mentioned…
On Friday (August 2), only one week after the Opening Ceremony, Nicky shared an announcement on X together with one other assertion from a lawyer, writing, “I’ll by no means once more enable myself and different queer folks to be defamed and demonized. If responding with love doesn’t work for some, then responding with justice ought to work. See you in court docket.”
The assertion from the lawyer, Anne Sophie-Laguens, says Nicky and different performers have obtained an “unprecedented wave of hatred,” which has gone “far past inventive criticism,” and contains dying threats. Learn the total lawyer’s assertion in English beneath…
Earlier this yr, Laurence Fox was ordered to pay $180,000 in damages from a libel case filed towards him by one other drag performer, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK‘s Crystal, and Stonewall trustee Simon Blake after he made comparable feedback in the direction of them a number of years in the past.
Following the opening ceremony of the Olympic Video games on July 26, 2024, the artists who carried out on the Debilly footbridge suffered an unprecedented wave of hatred, and confronted the trivialization of insults on account of sexual orientation or gender id.
Cease Homophobia’s legal professionals have thus obtained quite a few experiences referring to incitement to hatred, insults, on-line harassment, threats and defamation.
The agency was notified by Mr. Karl Sanchez, often known as Nicky Doll, of a defamation grievance filed towards Mr. Laurence Fox and different customers of the social community X (Twitter).
Nicky Doll, who has been receiving insults and hate messages for years, has suffered an unprecedented wave of animosity and unwell will since her efficiency on the “Festivity” desk of the ceremony, going so far as dying threats.
These messages go far past inventive criticism, and a few convey odious and defamatory amalgams, equating drag performances and pedophilia.
These comparisons are severe and unacceptable.
It’s on this sense that justice has been taken, and that any publication or message assimilating Nicky Doll’s efficiency to encouragement of pedophilic practices will likely be reported.
Anne-Sophie Laguens
Lawyer at Court docket
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