Biting While Intoxicated: CNN Sued For $1 million Over Correspondent’s Alleged Drunken Altercation
CNN is being sued for over $1 million by two plaintiffs who allege that correspondent Arwa Damon bit one of them and threatened both of them during a drunken altercation at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
The suit was filed in the New York Supreme Court on Monday.
Charles Simons and Tracy Lamar claim that in July, Damon was “seriously intoxicated” at the embassy and became “unruly and violent.”
MSN reports:
At some point, the suit claims Damon bit Lamar, who was working as an EMT and a medic, and threatened both Lamar and Simons, who were attempting to provide medical assistance.
What’s more, Damon — also named as a defendant in the suit, along with CNN Productions — has “a history of becoming intoxicated and then abusive” and “a history of and penchant for violence even when sober,” the suit claims.
And perhaps worst of all, Damon allegedly pulled a “don’t you know who I am,” telling the plaintiffs that she was “a major reporter for CNN.”
“We are not aware of the alleged lawsuit and therefore have no comment,” a CNN spokesperson told TheWrap in a statement.
The suit claims that Lamar “suffered severe and permanent personal injuries, including a bite to the left forearm, injury to the knees, elbows and other parts of the body; fear of infection from a human bite which is highly infectious; cosmetic deformity; pain and suffering; mental anguish and distress; emotional injuries; and plaintiff has been otherwise damaged,” the suit claims.
Simons and Lamar are seeking damages “in an amount not to exceed the sum of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000).”
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edmeyer_able August 5th, 2014 at 2:19 pm
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