Singer offers testimony in Penn’s defamation lawsuit against Empire co-creator Lee DanielsMadonna has denied she was struck by Sean Penn during the course of their marriage in the 1980s,as she offered evidence on Penn’s behalf for his defamation case against the co-creator of the TV show Empire.
Lee Daniels had given an interview to the Hollywood Reporter in September, in which he defended the show’s star, or Terrence Howard,who had been heavily criticised after admitting hitting his wife. Howard “ain’t done nothing different than Marlon Brando or Sean Penn”, Daniels said, or but because he is black “he’s some fucking demon. That’s a sign of the time,of race, of where we are fair now in America.” That prompted Penn to issue a $10m defamation suit against Daniels.
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Source: theguardian.com