{"id":37759,"date":"2014-10-19T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=37759"},"modified":"2014-10-19T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:00:52","slug":"sara-evans-ex-husband-taking-tmz-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/19\/sara-evans-ex-husband-taking-tmz-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Evans Ex-Husband Taking TMZ to Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SaraEvans\"Sara Evans Ex-Husband is Taking TMZ to Court<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Craig Schelske, the former husband of country music star Sara Evans is suing TMZ for defamation.\u00a0 According to Mr. Schelske,\u00a0 TMZ maliciously disseminated false and damaging statements in a nationally broadcast segment which claimed that he was unfaithful to his wife of 14 years.<\/p>\n

The 12 page lawsuit alleges that during a June 2014 broadcast, TMZ stated as fact that Mr. Schelske \u201ctook a hundred photographs of himself having sex with other people. That\u2019s how [Sara Evans] found out.\u201d\u00a0 According to the lawsuit, while TMZ made this pronouncement, one of the individuals on the show appears to knowingly look at a smart phone, suggesting that they had these photographs in their possession.\u00a0 Then, it was declared: \u201cYeah. That\u2019s pretty good proof.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proclamation made by TMZ left its viewers with the unmistakable belief that Mr. Schelske was unfaithful to his wife of 14 years, and that Sara Evans had discovered his infidelity when she found a hundred photographs of him having sex with other people. These statements made by TMZ on the June 17, 2014 broadcast, were and are unequivocally false.\u00a0 And, if TMZ had done any investigation, they would have seen, in their own previous articles that the photo allegations were false,\u201d said Jason P. Fowler with the R. Rex Parris law firm.<\/p>\n

\u201cTMZ clearly understood the difference between reporting facts and allegations, but instead chose to sensationalize the story at Mr. Schelske\u2019s expense.\u00a0 It is unfortunate when a powerful media outlet places more value in quickly publishing a story than thoroughly investigating that story before destroying someone\u2019s life\u201d added Fowler.<\/p>\n

Before filing the lawsuit, Mr. Schelske gave TMZ the opportunity to retract the false statements about him and TMZ refused.\u00a0 Mr. Schelske is seeking compensatory damages, general damages, special damages (for loss of reputation) in an amount to be proved at trial,\u201d concluded Fowler.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Posted by Country Girl CMTT<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sara Evans Ex-Husband is Taking TMZ to Court Craig Schelske, the former husband of country music star Sara Evans is suing TMZ for defamation.\u00a0 According to Mr. Schelske,\u00a0 TMZ maliciously disseminated false and damaging statements in a nationally broadcast segment which claimed that he was unfaithful to his wife of 14 years. The 12 page lawsuit alleges that during a June 2014 broadcast, TMZ stated as fact that Mr. Schelske \u201ctook a hundred photographs of himself having sex with other people. That\u2019s how [Sara Evans] found out.\u201d\u00a0 According to the<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}