This was originally posted on the SGR blog.
Alec Baldwin is famous for his stage and screen accomplishments and Trump cameos on SNL- but he is also (like Paris Hilton) “famous for being famous”– because his name is always in the news. And, as a recent case illustrates, Baldwin once again became “newsworthy” because of a defamation suit for statements he made in television interviews about a mid-town Manhattan parking space fracas for which he pled guilty to a low-level offense (a decision in the slander suit coming shortly after his celebrity/actor/yoga instructor/podcaster wife, Hilaria, gave birth to their sixth child in seven+ years).
Wojciech Cieszkowski claimed he was verbally and physically assaulted by the actor Alec Baldwin over a parking space. According to Cieskowski, after he parked his car in a public space on the street, Baldwin approached him, shouted at him, and accused Cieskowski of stealing his parking spot. Cieskowski walked toward the muni-meter, and Baldwin followed Cieskowski and continued to yell at him. When approaching the meter, Baldwin shoved Cieskowski in the chest and then struck Cieskowski in the left jaw.
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