Sacramento Kings player Richaun Holmes has filed a defamation suit against The McClatchy Co., Sacramento Bee opinion writer Robin Epley and Holmes’ ex-wife, alleging that a series of stories about a custody dispute between Holmes and his former wife contained false statements that damaged his reputation and caused him emotional harm.
The 28-page lawsuit, filed in Sacramento Superior Court, seeks punitive and other damages for “damage to his reputation; damage to his personal brand, and goodwill in the community as a player for the Kings and in the NBA generally...”
“This is a case about journalism at its worst,” Holmes’ lawyers, the Brown Rudnick law firm of New York, say in the filing. The suit accuses The Bee and Epley — a 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work as part of the Chico Enterprise-Record’s coverage of the Camp Fire — of “clinging to, and cashing in on, a false narrative, steeped in harmful racial stereotypes, in the face of mounting evidence that their chosen narrative was blatantly untrue.”
The suit, which was reviewed by The Bee, alleges that Holmes’ ex-wife, Allexis Holmes, “attempted to turn the tides in her custody dispute with the Plaintiff by falsely claiming that he was abusive to her and her son.”
The suit also alleges that Epley “amplified and endorsed Ms. Holmes’ false claims despite ample reasons to doubt Ms. Holmes’ credibility, including publicly-available court filings and orders contradicting Ms. Holmes’ claims.”
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