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has asked a court to dismiss a $3 million lawsuit brought by Bilaal Salaam, a musician with a longtime association with her husband, .
The 54-year-old actress said in legal docs obtained by Daily Mail that Salaam, who is suing her for intentional infliction of emotional distress, made 'false' and 'uncorroborated' statements, which is her basis for asking the case be tossed.
Salaam was hoping 'to generate attention as part of an ongoing public campaign of harassment directed at' the Smith family, who he is fixated with, Pinkett Smith said in court docs.
The Baltimore-born star said the remarks cited in Salaam's litigation against her were 'constitutionally protected.'
The Girls Trip star said she had a right to make statements 'on a matter of intense public interest about her family.'
Daily Mail has reached out to Pinkett Smith's representative for further comment on the story.
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Jada Pinkett Smith has asked a Los Angeles court to dismiss a $3 million lawsuit brought by Bilaal Salaam, a man who says he was once good friends with her husband, Will Smith. Pictured in LA in November
Salaam in the November 2025 suit said that he and Will Smith had been friendly for four decades.
Smith is nearly four years removed from his infamous incident at the 2022 Oscars, in which he slapped Chris Rock after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith
Smith has subsequently apologized on multiple occasions over the incident, and resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ahead of being issued a 10-year ban from the Oscars.
