Hilary Duff is being sued by photographer Darryl Wilkins, whom she slammed on Instagram last February claiming he was taking pictures of her son Luca playing football in a park with other children.
Duff posted an Instagram video on February 22, 2020 of her confronting Wilkins and telling him ‘how creepy it is’ for him to have been taking the photos.
Now Wilkins is suing Duff for defamation – and is also suing Wendy Williams, who aired some of Duff’s footage on her talk show and took her side, The Blast reports.The suit alleges that the defendants engaged in fraud, malice and oppression and consequently owe Wilkins general, specific and punitive damages.In the Instagram video Duff posted last year she repeatedly asked Wilkins to stop photographing the children and he repeatedly insisted it was legal to do so.
Well, I’m taking pictures. I’m practicing photography and I’m not here to scare you or anything like that. Your paranoia is unwarranted,’ he said.
Duff argued that it was ‘just an uncomfortability factor that these are seven-year-old children and you don’t have a child here.’
She shares her son Luca, eight, with her first husband Mike Comrie. She also has Banks, two, by her current husband Matthew Koma and is now pregnant again.
As the quarrel continued Duff said that she would ‘just post this to my 15 million followers on Instagram and let people know how creepy it is that this is what you’re choosing to do on Saturday morning,’ and he asked: ‘Creepy to who?’
Duff cited ‘all of these parents with these kids,’ to which Wilkins said she was ‘the one making it creepy’ and then appeared to put his palm over her camera.
‘Paparazzi shooting KIDS,’ Duff wrote in her caption. ‘Go “practice” your photography on ADULTS! Creep! Laws need to change! This is stalking minors! Disgusting!’