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My Pillow Guy Files Defamation Suit Over Article Linking Him To Beautiful Actress, Instead Of Wackass Coup Plot

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Mike Lindell is bigly mad. The Daily Mail published an article linking him romantically to actress Jane Krakowski, and the My Pillow CEO is not having it. How very dare they imply that an attractive film star would voluntarily spend time with a frothing conspiracy theorist such as himself, much less that he would woo her with gifts of wine and flowers? This aggression will not stand, man!

So Lindell hired Charles Harder, the “Gawker killer” in the flesh, to exact just retribution. As the Daily Beast was first to report, Lindell filed a defamation suit in the Southern District of New York demanding that a jury hear his claim and pour dollars into the gaping hole in his soul occasioned by this vile calumny.

Ms. Krakowski appears to be taking the article in stride, without even threatening to sue over the report that she spent nine months in a relationship with a right wing troll.

“Jane has never met Mr. Lindell. She is not and has never been in any relationship with him, romantic or otherwise,” her publicist said in a statement. “She is, however, in full fledged fantasy relationships with Brad Pitt, Rege-Jean Page and Kermit the Frog and welcomes any and all coverage on those.”

But Lindell, who told chief investigative reporter Laura Collins (also a named defendant) that “I have never even heard of Jane Krakowski???” claims to have been grievously injured.

Presumably, Lindell has bigger fish to fry, what with a defamation suit by Dominion Voting Systems looming on the horizon and his product being yanked off retailers’ shelves. (Maybe Harder is throwing this one in as a freebie?) But more to the point, exactly how was the My Pillow Guy injured by this story? Isn’t the harm here along the lines of suggesting that he honeymooned in Cleveland and eats pineapple pizza?

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It’s not even adultery, since Lindell isn’t married. In fact, he left his first wife for another woman while two of their four children were still living at home, remarried for one month in 2013 to a woman who accused him in an affidavit of trying to run her over, and was accused of physical abuse in an application for a protective order by yet another woman he dated. Nonetheless, this good family man seeks recovery for damage to his sterling reputation.

“As an evangelical Christian, Mr. Lindell is piously devoted to his religious faith, his family, civic involvement and charity. He is not at all a secretive or sordid person, as Defendants portray him in the Article,” writes the guy last seen leaving the White House with a memo outlining a plan to declare martial law and overturn an election. “Mr. Lindell likewise does not engage in any sort of scandalous, clandestine affairs of the kind described in the Article.”

His company did agree to pay $2 million in fines for deceptive advertising in 2016, but that was hardly clandestine, so… fair enough.

Lindell further claims to have been harmed by the suggestion that he bought champagne and expensive spirits for Krakowski, saying “He founded Lindell Recovery Network, a platform that helps those struggling with addiction connect with Christian recovery organizations. As a recovering alcoholic, Mr. Lindell would never purchase liquor or champagne, or foist alcohol on others, and Defendants’ statement that he did so is highly injurious and insulting to him.”

Oddly, Lindell insists that The Daily Mail is well known to be “generally unreliable,” pointing to Wikipedia’s ban on using it as a citation source — which rather undercuts the claim that he was harmed because so many people believed the story.

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Moreover, despite multiple quotes from anonymous sources, the suit asserts that there is “no indication that Defendants ever attempted to contact numerous other witnesses who would have been in a position to confirm or deny the claims in the Article”

Well, good luck My Pillow Dude. And don’t sue us — WE BELIEVE YOU. We are one thousand percent certain that Jane Krakowski would never in a million years get involved with you.

Lindell v. Mail Media, Inc. (1:21-cv-00667) [Docket via Court Listener]
EXCLUSIVE: Trump-loving MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell had secret romance with 30 Rock actress Jane Krakowski and wooed her with flowers and champagne in relationship that BAFFLED her friends [Daily Mail]

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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