Jada Pinkett Smith is going through a $3 million lawsuit from Bilaal Salaam, a longtime affiliate of Will Smith, who claims she threatened him at a non-public birthday occasion and later tried to sabotage his life and profession.

The grievance, filed in California, accuses Pinkett Smith of confronting Salaam at a movie show in September 2021 throughout her husband’s birthday celebration. In accordance with the submitting, she arrived with a gaggle of about seven individuals and allegedly issued a chilling ultimatum.

“Whereas within the foyer, Jada Pinkett Smith approached Plaintiff with roughly seven members of her entourage, grew to become verbally aggressive, and threatened Plaintiff by stating that if he continued ‘telling her private enterprise,’ he would ‘find yourself lacking or catch a bullet,’ and demanded he signal a non-disclosure settlement (NDA) ‘or else,’” the lawsuit states, as reported by Web page Six.

Salaam, who claims to have been near Will Smith for practically 4 many years, says the confrontation didn’t finish there. One in every of Pinkett Smith’s associates allegedly adopted him to his automotive whereas persevering with to situation verbal threats.

The authorized submitting additionally particulars what Salaam describes as a marketing campaign of retaliation. He says Pinkett Smith and her workforce turned in opposition to him after he declined to help with disaster administration following the notorious Oscars incident in March 2022, when Smith slapped comic Chris Rock on reside tv.

“Plaintiff refused to carry out duties he believed had been unlawful, unethical, or morally compromising, stating his conscience wouldn’t permit him to be concerned in any cover-up or misleading PR marketing campaign,” the lawsuit continues.

Salaam additional claims that after he started engaged on a “whistleblower memoir” and gave a 2023 interview that included private claims about Will Smith’s non-public life, the threats escalated. Pinkett Smith publicly informed TMZ she would take authorized motion in opposition to Salaam over the interview’s content material.

Nevertheless, the lawsuit alleges, “Defendant by no means filed a lawsuit. The assertion was false, reckless, and made with malicious intent to govern public opinion and harm Plaintiff’s character.”

Salaam’s authorized workforce says he has suffered important hurt, together with monetary loss, emotional misery and harm to his well being, popularity and livelihood. He’s searching for $3 million in damages.

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