Kim Kardashian referred to as him a demise row inmate on Instagram. He is suing

Final February, Kim Kardashian shared a photograph of Ivan Cantu on social media, saying he was a demise row inmate and that state of Texas would execute him in two days. Neither had been true.

The Cantu shared within the photograph is a resident of Westchester, N.Y., and has not been sentenced to demise for double homicide.

He’s, nonetheless, very indignant concerning the mix-up and suing the star for defamation, in response to an unfiled civil criticism submitted to Los Angeles Superior Courtroom on Thursday. Within the criticism, Cantu lambastes Kardashian for sharing an unauthorized photograph of his face together with her greater than 350 million Instagram followers, saying the incident has induced him extreme psychological and emotional trauma.

Cantu has the identical title because the Texas demise row inmate who was put to demise with a deadly injection two days after Kardashian’s publish.

The late Cantu was convicted of the murders of his cousin and his cousin’s fiancée in 2000. He insisted upon his innocence till his demise.

Mugshot of a man with dark hair and brown eyes.

Kardashian’s lawyer Michael Rhodes defended the publish as “a easy mistake of utilizing the general public photograph of one other man with the identical title to advertise Kim’s longstanding dedication to the reason for felony justice reform.”

The Instagram publish comprises a photograph of the inaccurate Cantu and a hyperlink to a petition demanding the Collin County district lawyer withdraw the execution date.

“The picture was taken down nearly instantly as soon as the error was found,” Rhodes stated in a press release to The Instances. “We’d desire to unravel this with out litigation, however after all will defend Kim as wanted.”

Cantu says that though the publish was eliminated, it nonetheless induced extreme injury to his repute and uncovered him to hate and contempt by falsely figuring out him as a double assassin.

“Cantu suffered critical emotional injury and harm within the type of emotional and psychological anguish, psychological hurt, embarrassment, anxiousness, lack of sleep, nightmares, post-traumatic stress, complications, want for medical care and emotional counseling,” the criticism states.

He’s suing Kardashian for libel, slander, intentional infliction of emotional misery, invasion of privateness, negligence and representing him in false mild. He’s searching for compensatory and punitive damages in an quantity to be decided in court docket.

“Kardashian revealed and disseminated false info with out privilege or authorization, and her acts had been intentional, negligent, reckless and/or violated requirements of ethics and decency,” the criticism states.

Kardashian, who’s finding out to develop into a lawyer, started her activism in felony justice round 2017 when she discovered concerning the case of Alice Marie Johnson, who was serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense. In 2018, the celbrity efficiently lobbied then-President Trump to grant Johnson clemency.

She has since continued to advocate on inmates’ behalf, together with for the Menendez brothers, who she believes ought to be resentenced and launched.