Slandered Schwarzenegger Flight Attendant Goes After Gawker
When LA Times media critic James Rainey called out Gawker this spring for completely bungling a report about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love child, the first reader comment suggested that flight attendant Tammy Tousignant, wrongly tagged by reporter John Cook (pictured) as the mother of the ex-Governor’s love child, should sue the Nick Denton publication. That has now, belatedly, happened.
Tousignant wants a minimum of $10 million from Gawker, The National Enquirer and U.K.’s The Daily Mail. In her Orange County Superior Court complaint, she is basically alleging that the extensive correction posted on Gawker in place of the erroneous May 17 item was not nearly enough.
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