{"id":2287794,"date":"2026-02-18T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2287794"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:10:07","slug":"jada-pinkett-smith-battles-3-million-case-filed-by-will-smiths-former-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jada-pinkett-smith-battles-3-million-case-filed-by-will-smiths-former-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Jada Pinkett Smith Battles $3 Million Case Filed by Will Smith\u2019s Former Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jada Pinkett Smith<\/a> is taking a strong stand against a $3 million lawsuit that has put her and her family in the headlines for months. On February 16, she filed a motion in a California court asking a judge to dismiss the case, which was filed by Bilaal Salaam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Pinkett Smith\u2019s legal team argues that the lawsuit is entirely without merit and is covered by California\u2019s anti-slapp law. This statute protects individuals from lawsuits intended to silence or intimidate them when speaking on matters of public interest.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit stems from claims by Salaam<\/a>, who says he was a longtime friend of the Smith family. He…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jada Pinkett Smith is taking a strong stand against a $3 million lawsuit that has put her and her family in the headlines for months. On February 16, she filed a motion in a California court asking a judge to dismiss the case, which was filed by Bilaal Salaam. According to court documents, Pinkett Smith\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2287795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2287794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jada-Pinkett-Smith-Battles-3-Million-Case-Filed-by-Will.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287796,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287794\/revisions\/2287796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}