JJ Lin sues netizen over drug, rape & tax evasion allegations

JJ Lin has filed a defamation suit against a man who put up a post on social media last year alleging that the singer, along with fellow celebrity Wilber Pan, used drugs and enticed others to use them as well. 

The poster, Xie Minghao, also published allegations of rape and tax evasion against the two singers.

On Friday (Feb 18), Shanghai Jiuze Law Firm, which is based in China, posted on social media site Weibo that it had started legal proceedings on behalf of the singer’s company, JFJ Productions.

The law firm said that Xie Minghao is “suspected of infringing on the reputation and rights” of Lin, 40, because of the falsehoods the netizen had posted again him.

But as it stands, Xie is already in the middle of legal proceedings due to “other crimes,” and the singer’s defamation suit against him has been suspended for the time being.

Shanghai Jiuze Law Firm added in its post that “cyberspace is not an extrajudicial place,” and warning the public that they cannot just post falsehoods and not be penalized for doing so.

Xie, who claimed that he is also in the entertainment industry, made his allegations against Lin and Pan in a Weibo post in August of last year.

According to mothership, however, netizens have said they have never heard of Xie.

The netizen said he had “concrete evidence” to back up his allegations and called for authorities to bring in Lin and Pan for drug testing, adding he would assume legal responsibility if he is proven wrong, mothership added.

However, in the same month, Shanghai Jiuze Law Firm issued a statement taking to task 28 online accounts, which included Xie’s, which the firm claimed “maliciously published/spread false statements against Mr JJ Lin.”

In December, Lin’s company, JFJ Productions, posted a public statement on its Instagram account, refuting “untrue and baseless insinuations” against the singer.

The company called on influential social media account holders and media outlets to stop making untrue and baseless insinuations.

Lin and JFJ Productions don’t usually respond to perpetrators deliberately creating and spreading rumours, as they don’t want to consume public resources over a few troublemakers. /TISG

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