Logan Paul is taking authorized motion towards widespread YouTuber Coffeezilla … claiming the web investigator is purposely spreading lies to tarnish his repute.
The docs have been filed on Thursday … with the WWE Famous person suing Coffeezilla — actual title Stephen Findeisen — and his manufacturing firm for defamation over his deep dive into Paul’s failed CryptoZoo mission.
In case you have not been following alongside, Coffeezilla has launched quite a few movies addressing the fallout of the blockchain recreation for the previous two years, — calling the entire thing a “rip-off” — pointing the finger at Paul and claiming he purposely duped his followers into shelling out their chilly, onerous money so he might pocket it.
Paul claims regardless of getting access to textual content exchanges proving in any other case, Coffeezilla continues to place out false data for clout … utilizing his title to get extra clicks and eyeballs to his channel for monetary achieve.
In actual fact, Paul makes word Coffeezilla launched a subscription-based Patreon account proper after his first video focusing on CryptoZoo … and referred to as on his viewers to pay for much more content material. Paul believes this reveals Coffeezilla knew how a lot consideration he would get for calling the mission a rip-off … and noticed it as a giant payday.
Paul lays all of it out within the go well with … offering the texts he claims show he had the perfect intentions all through the mission improvement — and outdoors of gameplay expertise, he claims he relied solely on advisors Eddie Ibanez and “Crypto King” Jake Greenbaum to carry the remaining collectively.
Within the messages, Paul constantly made it clear he didn’t wish to jeopardize the integrity of the sport … and envisioned a reliable, enjoyable expertise for customers.
When issues went south and the mission did not stay as much as expectations, Paul expressed his frustrations and stated he was being misled in texts to his workforce … promising to carry everybody accountable accountable.
In the end, Paul says Ibanez and Greenbaum torpedoed his imaginative and prescient to get wealthy … and deceived him all through the event course of.
Within the docs, Paul says Coffeezilla knew rattling properly he did not revenue off the mission — and truly misplaced a whole bunch of 1000’s within the course of.
He additionally claims he already laid out his plan to offer customers their a reimbursement lengthy earlier than Coffeezilla launched his deep dive into CryptoZoo … and up to now, he says he is given greater than $1 million of his personal a reimbursement to a whole bunch of NFT purchasers.
Paul’s intent with the lawsuit is to clear his title of the “scammer” stench … and hopes going by way of the justice system will carry that consequence.
He is searching for unspecified damages.