Frank Ocean’s
father is suing his son for defamation after the openly gay musician accused his
father of using the word “faggot.”
Calvin
Cooksey, the father, filed
the suit after Ocean wrote a Tumblr post about the Orlando Pulse
shooting, where 49 people were killed in an LGBT club. Ocean
wrote:
I heard the
gunman feigned dead among all the people he killed. I heard the news say he was
one of us. I was six years old when I heard my dad call our transgender waitress
a faggot as he dragged me out a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn’t be served
because she was dirty. That was the last afternoon I saw my father and the
first time I heard that word, I think, although it wouldn’t shock me if it
wasn’t.
Cooksey says
the story isn’t true and is damaging his career opportunities. He’s asking for
$14.5 million in damages.
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