‘Real Housewives’ star sues ‘bots’ over racist messages sent to her co-star’s teen son
LA TimesDiana Jenkins, a star on Bravo’s hit show “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” filed a lawsuit Thursday against “bots” she claims targeted her co-star’s 14-year-old son with racist messages, which Jenkins was then blamed for. Jenkins filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court arguing that, despite her onscreen feud with Garcelle Beauvais, she would never stoop so low as to send hateful messages to Beauvais’ son Jax. But because the racist messages targeting Beauvais’ son repeatedly warned Jenkins’ co-star to “leave Diana alone,” Jenkins claims the messages led amateur internet sleuths to believe she was responsible for the attack on the teen. Framing the content of the bot messages in this manner predictably led people to believe that Ms. Jenkins was using the bots to send a warning to Ms. Beauvais,” the suit says.
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