Julie Hilden, who practiced law at my old firm (prior to my time there), has a nice overview of defamation law in the context of the current suit brought against Paris Hilton by one Zeta Graff (identified in an IMDB news story as (take a deep breath) “the ex-girlfriend of Hilton’s former boyfriend Paris Latsis”) for allegedly planting inaccurate stories in the New York Post.
For more fun — and hey, this can be part 2 of my documents series — TMZ, which is apparently part of AOL, has obtained Hilton’s deposition from the case, and — I’m shocked, shocked! — she’s apparently not very smart. The actual deposition is available (part 1 and part 2 [both PDFs]), as is this exhibit [PDF]. Some fun bits, making me wish I had enough time to get to defamation in Torts:
Funniest moment I’ve seen in a depo in a long time (put out of order because I like it so much):
And a nice opening:
Discussing the start of her interaction with Graff:
And describing her conversation with Graff:
Demonstrating her strong grasp of geography:
A little history on what Hilton had heard about Graff:
After describing an interaction between the two Parises and Graff at Elton John’s post-Oscar party, we learn of the relative difficulty of getting into the Vanity Fair party versus Sir Elton’s party:
Some memory issues:
Discussing an interaction at an LA Fashion Week event:
…and the actual interaction they had at that event:
We learn some utterly unsurprising information about Hilton’s musical tastes, and more than perhaps we wanted about the attorney’s:
We develop sympathy for the attorney:
Hilton describes the incident to her sister:
After suggesting that Hilton may have sent her publicist an e-mail saying they should lie about their involvement in the story’s development, some excitement:
