A judge dismissed the case after Drake’s lawyers said it was based on “delusional figments of her imagination.”
In a response last month, the singer’s attorneys flatly denied the accusations and called the lawsuit – filed without attorneys and seeking an implausible $4 billion – a “frivolous case” based on “On Friday, a Los Angeles Superior Court agreed with those arguments, dismissing the case permanently on the grounds that nothing Drake had posted could be remotely linked to Collins.
“Plaintiff Collins has not demonstrated any of defendant Graham’s statements were about plaintiff Collins or that he used her identity, name, or likeness in his Instagram posts or endorsements,” Judge Virginia Keeny wrote, referring to Drake by his full name. “Even if plaintiff Collins could establish the statements were about her, she has failed to establish that such statements were of a private fact that is offensive and objectionable to the reasonable person.
The order was granted under California’s so-called anti-SLAPP law, a special state statute that allows judges to quickly dismiss questionable lawsuits that could chill free speech. Judge Keeny said Drake had met the requirements to invoke the law, since the case sought to sue him over his online speech.
The ruling came less than a month after Drake’s attorney – Stanton “Larry” Stein of the law firm Russ August & Kabat – filed scathing motion to dismiss a case that he called “egregiously baseless” and an effort to once again harass his superstar client.now attempts to make contact with musician Aubrey Drake Graham by
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