Erika Kirk has been involved in countless controversies in the months since her husband, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed.
And one of the strangest mini-scandals had to do with a public display of affection.
As you may recall, Erika introduced Vice President JD Vance at a recent event at the University of Mississippi.
The two embraced on stage, and many thought that the hug went on for an inappropriately long time.
Numerous media outlets and commentators offered their two cents on the hug and the public reaction to it.
And one widespread rumor claims that Erika was so upset about Whoopi Goldberg’s reaction that she’s now filed an eight-figure lawsuit against the View co-host.
“Erika Kirk Files a $90 Million Lawsuit Against Whoopi Goldberg: ‘She Turned an Innocent Hug Into an Adultery Scandal That Didn’t Exist,’” reads a Facebook post from one of those shady-looking pages that nonetheless receives hundreds of comments.
“In a move that legal scholars are already calling ’emotionally ambitious,’ Erika Kirk has reportedly filed a $90 million defamation lawsuit against The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg, accusing her of ‘turning an innocent hug into an adultery scandal that didn’t even exist — not even in an alternate timeline,’” the post continues.
“Erika Kirk has taken the legal drama to the next level, officially filing a lawsuit against The View host Whoopi Goldberg for a whopping $110 million,” another page wrote.
“Kirk accuses Whoopi of ‘twisting an innocent compliment’ about her on-air outfit into a veiled admission of intellectual property infringement.”
We’re not linking to these accounts because they’re the sort of AI-dependent slop factories that are far too common on Facebook these days, and we refuse to encourage them.
So what’s the deal here? Is Erika really suing Whoop over a hug?
Well, as you’ve probably already guessed, the answer is no. At least there’s no evidence that Erika has filed a lawsuit, much less a $90 million one.
See, the outlets that are reporting that “news” item have about as much integrity as Matt Gaetz, and their business model relies entirely on making stuff up.
In the age of AI, any disingenuous opportunist can crank out a 1,000-word article claiming some sort of nonsense, get a bunch of ad revenue from the clicks of confused Facebook users (usually older folks), and then pull up stakes and move on to the next one.
It’s a revolting and increasingly common strategy, and in the years to come, it’s gonna get even harder to separate the facts from the BS.
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With all the recent controversy over the Epstein files, the Trump administration can scarcely afford another scandal at the moment.
So the MAGA crowd is probably not thrilled about the timing of Olivia Nuzzi’s allegations against Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As you may recall, Nuzzi is the journalist who claimed that she had an affair with Kennedy during his 2024 presidential campaign.
Kennedy is married to actress Cheryl Hines, and Nuzzi was engaged to fellow journalist Ryan Lizza at the time.
Nuzzi was fired from New York magazine as a result of the ensuing scandal.
Her memoir, American Canto, won’t hit stores until December 2, but it’s already the talk of Washington.
The New York Times has obtained a copy of the book, and according to the newspaper’s recent profile of Nuzzi, readers looking for a salacious account of a forbidden romance will not be disappointed.
“She loved his eyes, ‘blue as the flame.’ She loved that ‘the sight of something as trivial as a rose’ could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his ‘particular complications and particular darkness,’” reads the piece published on Friday.
“But she said ‘I love you’ only after he said it first. He called her ‘Livvy’ and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby. He promised to take a bullet for her,” it continues.
Nuzzi also claims that Kennedy, a former heroin addict, still uses psychedelic drugs — including dimethyltryptamine, or DMT.
The potent substance is the active ingredient in the hallucinogen ayahuasca.
The fact that Kennedy is (allegedly) a user is not a total shock, as he’s espoused the use of DMT as a therapeutic tool.
“These are people who badly need some kind of therapy, nothing else is working for them,” RFK Jr. once told a House committee, according to the New York Post.
“This line of therapeutics has tremendous advantage if given in a clinical setting. And we are working very hard to make sure that that happens within 12 months.”
As for the other claims, however? Well, let’s just say RFK and his wife are accusing Nuzzi of having a very active imagination.
A spokesperson for the cabinet member insists that he “only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece.”
“I think you always have to consider the source, right?” Hines quipped on a recent podcast interview (via the New York Post). “So that’s where I start. And then it ends with a conversation with Bobby.”
Like many of the men in his famous family, RFK Jr. has a long history of infidelity.
His second wife accused Kennedy of being a “sexual deviant.” She took her own life not long after finding out about his many affairs.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
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