{"id":808904,"date":"2026-07-18T20:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808904\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:54:18","slug":"will-smith-asked-to-testify-in-lawsuit-against-jada-pinkett-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808904\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith Asked to Testify in Lawsuit Against Jada Pinkett Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Will Smith\u2019s Former Friend Bilaal Salaam Asks Him to Testify in Lawsuit Against Jada Pinkett Smith<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/will_smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Will Smith<\/a>&#8216;s name is being dragged into a legal battle between his ex <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/jada_pinkett_smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jada Pinkett Smith<\/a> and his former friend Bilaal Salaam.<\/p>\n<p>Salaam (also known as Brother Bilaal) is seeking the Oscar winner&#8217;s testimony in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1425741\/jada-pinkett-smith-sued-by-will-smiths-former-friend-for-s3-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">lawsuit against Pinkett Smith<\/a>, who he accuses of orchestrating a smear campaign against him after an alleged confrontation at Smith&#8217;s birthday party in 2021, according to court documents obtained by E! News.<\/p>\n<p>In an email exchange attached to motion filed by Pinkett Smith&#8217;s legal team on July 15, Salaam\u2014who is representing himself in the case\u2014said he wanted to devote the first 10 minutes of a 30-minute call with the actress&#8217; counsel to addressing his request to depose Smith.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pinkett Smith&#8217;s lawyer\u2014who stated in her filing that her client &#8220;denies all such allegations&#8221; from Salaam\u2014argued that there &#8220;is nothing to meet and confer about&#8221; regarding Smith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Smith is not a party to this litigation,&#8221; the attorney continued in her email response to Salaam. &#8220;To the extent you seek his deposition, you must comply with the applicable procedures for obtaining discovery from a nonparty. As far as we are aware, no subpoena has been served on Mr. Smith.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Smith\u2019s Former Friend Bilaal Salaam Asks Him to Testify in Lawsuit Against Jada Pinkett Smith Will Smith&#8216;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-808904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}