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Decide guidelines Reggie Bush should pay Lloyd Lake $1.4 million in defamation case

By Editorial Board Published June 20, 2025 6 Min Read
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Decide guidelines Reggie Bush should pay Lloyd Lake .4 million in defamation case

Lloyd Lake, the San Diego man on the middle of the Reggie Bush additional advantages saga, scored a serious authorized victory this week over the previous USC operating again after a Van Nuys choose upheld an arbitrator’s resolution to award Lake almost $1.4 million in his defamation go well with in opposition to Bush.

Lake filed the go well with in opposition to Bush again in February 2023 — alongside along with his dad and mom, Roy and Barbara Gunner — alleging that Bush publicly disparaged and defamed him throughout a podcast look and in social media posts and, as such, violated the non-disparagement clause they agreed upon in a earlier settlement. The feedback, in keeping with Lake and his dad and mom’ grievance, “created a firestorm of vitriol” that noticed the Gunner house vandalized with graffiti and left them fearing for his or her security.

The choose’s resolution this week got here greater than 15 years after the primary explosive lawsuit between the 2 males was settled. That go well with, which Lake first filed in 2007, claimed that he and one other businessman, Michael Michaels, had offered Bush and his household with money, a automotive, rent-free use of a home and different presents whereas he performed at USC in 2004 and 2005 with the expectation Bush would signal with Lake and his fledgling sports activities administration firm, New Period Sports activities & Leisure.

The primary case was settled in April 2010, simply earlier than Bush and Michaels have been scheduled to be deposed. However Lake’s account of their association, which violated NCAA guidelines, had already prompted a firestorm, one which finally resulted in extreme sanctions for USC’s soccer program, the vacating of the Trojans’ 2004 nationwide title and the return of Bush’s Heisman Trophy.

As faculty athletes have been allowed to obtain compensation to be used of their identify, picture and likeness and public opinion started shifting towards Bush, the legendary Trojan operating again started sharing extra about his expertise and the saga that might come to outline him. In an look on the “I Am Athlete” podcast, Bush opened up concerning the emotional toll the case and shedding his Heisman Trophy took on him and his household. Bush finally succeeded in having the Heisman returned to him in 2024.

Neither of the 2 males had spoken publicly concerning the different in additional than a decade, abiding by the non-disparagement settlement of their 2010 settlement. On the time of that settlement, all events concerned — together with Bush’s mom and stepfather — agreed to “not make any statements or representations to any person that may cast another Party to this Agreement in an unfavorable light, that are offensive to or disparage them, or that could adversely affect their name and reputation.”

However through the 2022 podcast interview, Bush went on to accuse Lake of blackmail and exaggerate Lake’s prison file, which he stated was “as long as the Cheesecake Factory menu.” Months later, in a Twitter submit, Bush falsely accused Lake of being a convicted rapist.

The identical week the podcast was printed, the Gunners’ house was vandalized with graffiti. The threatening message left behind, written in purple spray paint on an outdoor wall, learn: “Help Reggie Bush Get His Trophy Back F— Crook.” The quantity “187” was additionally spray painted on the wall, which the plaintiff attorneys say referred to the state penal code quantity for homicide. They blamed the graffiti on “unknown bad actors” working “on behalf of or at the direction of Bush.”

Lake’s attorneys first sought to convey the case to a jury trial. However a choose dominated in June 2024, that Lake’s lawsuit in opposition to Bush would go to binding, confidential arbitration, per the phrases of their unique settlement.

The arbitrator within the case, Jeffrey G. Benz, finally dominated in Lake’s favor, awarding him $500,000, in addition to $764,640 in attorneys’ charges and $116,780 in different prices, in keeping with court docket paperwork. Nonetheless, Bush’s attorneys continued to problem the ruling by arguing that Benz had exceeded his authority because the arbitrator.

Their newest problem was quashed this week by Van Nuys Superior Court docket Decide Eric Harmon, who took just a few hours to reaffirm the arbitrator’s resolution.

However Bush and his authorized workforce succeeded, in a single respect: Bush’s responses to Lake’s petition, in addition to different supporting reveals and paperwork pertaining to Bush’s facet of the case, stay beneath seal or closely redacted.

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