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Opinion: Former Girlfriend's 'Slander' Lawsuit Against GENE SIMMONS Should Have Been Dismissed

November 22, 2005

Julie Hilden, a FindLaw columnist who graduated from Yale Law School in 1992 and practiced First Amendment law at the D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly from 1996-99, believes that a former girlfriend's slander suit against KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons ought to have been dismissed. Plaintiff Georgeann Walsh Ward claims that during a VH1 "rockumentary," Simmons (and the documentarians) made her sound like a "sex-addicted nymphomaniac." (The suit also names Simmons's company, as well as Viacom.)

Ward admits that she was in a three-year romantic relationship with Simmons that she says was monogamous, and which preceded her equally monogamous relationship with her now-husband. And she claims that Simmons's comments about his admittedly prolific sex life — he claimed to have had sexual encounters with 4,600 women — falsely suggested she was unchaste or promiscuous, when VH1 juxtaposed these comments with photographs of her.

Read Hilden's arguments for why the case should have been dismissed at FindLaw.

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