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Actress Gabrielle Union is fed up with gossip blogs making up stories about her and has decided to take a stand. The star of 'Cadillac Records' and 'Daddy's Little Girls' has lawyered up and is planning to take legal action against the Web site Bossip for printing a disreputable anonymous letter from an alleged "nameless pro-athlete's wife."
Union declares that the entire story is bogus and unsubstantiated and has demanded that Bossip remove the letter, print a retraction and send a written apology to her.
A friend of the actress spoke to BV Buzz under the condition of anonymity about the matter.
"I want your readers to know that it's all completely false," the friend told me. "Gabrielle will move forward with legal action against the writer and Bossip. All she asked for was a retraction and apology and to take it off their site, but they refused and now her goal is to make them pay! They straight up published a manifesto of a crazy person and they had to know it wasn't true."
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In January of 2008, Union spoke to me about her frustrations with the bad blog press.
"I almost get to a point where you can say whatever you want to say about me, but print some facts about our community that can help somebody," she said then. "I don't care, because I combat lies. I really used to think that if you read it ... in a magazine, a newspaper, or you see it on TV, then it has to be true. And it's just not true! I don't even know how to combat that except for do more good things for the people that I care about, which is my own community."
Now, the Omaha, Neb.-bred actress has reached her boiling point and refuses to be a punching bag for arbitrary blogs any longer.
"If there was any truth to it, she would've just let it die," her friend confessed, before adding, "But she's a black actress who really can't afford to sue but intends to go broke fighting this if that's what it takes!"
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By: "DimePiece" on 5/31/2009 6:01PM
Go ahead Gabrielle, handle your bizness! Bossip is nothin but BULL anyway! Do what you got to do and maybe they will learn their lesson for falsely writing that bogus letter! Everything will be all IGHT! We know that it ain't true.
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By: sasha on 6/01/2009 5:49PM
They need to leave Gabby alone.
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By: Todd on 6/02/2009 7:47PM
Gabrielle,
On March 25th we were on the same flight with American Airlines leaving Miami Fl. When walking through the terminal at L.A.X., you heard a conversation with me and a friend about you while going down the escalator to baggage claim. I do want to take this time and apologize for our comments and conduct towards yourself. We were very surprized to know you were standing right infront of us. Again G we're both sorry and we both have learned a lesson from that.
-Todd
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By: Milayah on 6/02/2009 4:51PM
Todd that was nice of you to apologize to Gabrielle on here. What were the comments you said about her? Were the comments that bad? You couldn't have apologized when you both got off the escalator? Were you afraid that she might have went off on the two of you? I'm sure she read your comment and forgives you now, even though it was lil over 2 months ago? :-)
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By: Malayah on 6/02/2009 5:04PM
Todd that was nice of you to apologize to Gabrielle on here. What were the comments you said about her? Were the comments ignorant? You couldn't have apologized when you both got off the escalator? Were you afraid that she might have went off on the two of you? I'm sure she is over the comment you made and forgives
you now. :-)
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By: Lively on 6/03/2009 7:18AM
Gabby,Do not go broke over that BS! 1st of all as you well know,people are gonna talk. Not just that your a public figure now. and ther are going to be crazy people trying to get thier 15 minutes of fame by getting a reaction out of you. Besides anyone that reads that blogg ( as they all are out of control)his like a person that reads those supermarket bloggs.. There have been instances where Cher has made them retract soemthing and years later,strangers still ask about the unretracted story.. so to me your beatting a dead horse.. Gabby,make your own blogg and get personal dirt on the owners of those blogg sites. Everyone has a skeleton. You must use the same force to stop them that they have used to get a reaction out of you. Anyone that knows me knows that "THE POWER OF THE PEN IS THE SWEETIEST RAAEVENGE! START YOUR OWN BLOGG!!! SHAME ON THE BLOGG MEDIA! TIT 4 TAT!!!! GET UM GIRL!!!
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By: u weirdo on 6/03/2009 1:35PM
yeah im sure shes going to read that apology u weirdo
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By: Lacam31 on 6/04/2009 5:01PM
Gabby you too smart too beautiful too let this stuff bother you.Be strong my Queen.Remember Jesus?
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By: Andrew on 6/02/2009 4:09PM
I hope that Gabrielle puts a BIG dent in their wallets, there are too many people hurt because of the media games in playing can you top this or you heard it here first just to make headlines .
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By: Todd on 6/02/2009 8:02PM
Milayah,
Actually this happened last week, May 25th. My friend was siiting behind first class where she was sitting and I was seated in 41c in a 777. When we landed at L.A.X., my buddy was telling me in the waiting area that "Gabrielle Union was on the flight and she is fine than a muthafu@ka!" He said he observed her speaking with David Allen Grier and John Weatherspoon who were also on the flight. Well when we started going down the escalator to baggage claim, I said to my buddy, " was she kewl, because I heard she was a bit@h?" And before he could reply, she turned around and said," you guys talk to loud, I hear everything you guys are saying about me. I have bionic ears." She was not rude or anything, infact no one even knew who she was. So me and my friend looked at eachother with disbelief and we just closed our mouthes in embarrasment. Even though we did not technically say anything bad, I feel my question was a little uncalled for. I really felt the saying" If you don't have nothing nice to say, then don't say nothing at all". Thats something I have to live with now.... : )
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