New York Jets star Sauce Gardner has been sued for falsely claiming a Buffalo Payments fan had an OnlyFans web page throughout an internet spat.
Gardner, 24, was named in a lawsuit filed by Kalli Mariakis in Morris County, New Jersey Superior Courtroom final month, Us Weekly confirms.
The lawsuit stems from an August 2024 interplay through X, the place the NFL star posted an image of an empty room and wrote, “Do I even should say what I’m getting constructed at my new home?”
In response, Mariakis — who calls herself a member of “#BillsMafia” in her bio on X — responded, “A simulator to show you the way to not commit cross interference or defensive holding.“
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The following day, Gardner responded, “I’m positive your husband wouldn’t prefer it if I advised him you’d [direct messaged] me your OF hyperlink, would he?” (“OF” is broadly referred to as an abbreviation for OnlyFans, a platform for grownup content material creators.)
Mariakis responded to the Jets participant, “Why don’t you ship the hyperlink then? He’s ready! I’d like to know what it’s myself! Good comeback @iamSauceGardner however what a disgrace it’s an enormous fats lie!“
Within the lawsuit, Mariakis denied ever having an OnlyFans web page, calling Gardner’s put up “knowingly false and malicious.” Mariakis additionally mentioned her husband and daughter have been subjected to “harassment and disparagement.“
A look at Mariakis’ Instagram web page reveals a lot of her posts flooded with feedback in regards to the Gardner incident. “The place’s the OF hyperlink,” one particular person wrote within the feedback part of a July 2024 photograph of Mariakis and her husband.
On a photograph of a reclining couch Mariakis was making an attempt to promote in September 2024, one other consumer commented, “sauce gardner owns u.”
The 15-page lawsuit additionally named Barstool Sports activities, based by Dave Portnoy, as a defendant.
After Mariakis’ change with Gardner went viral, Barstool posted an article with the headline: “If You’re a Married OnlyFans Mannequin Who’s Been DMing Sauce Gardner, You’d Be Sensible To not Troll Him About His Protection Talent.“
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The lawsuit argued the article was “not solely false and deceptive, it was deliberately based mostly upon a falsehood, whose fact would have defeated its central message: ‘Don’t mess with Sauce Gardner on or off the sphere.’”
Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for Gardner and Barstool Sports activities.
Mariakis is searching for compensatory and punitive damages.
Gardner was chosen 4th total by the Jets within the 2022 NFL Draft. In Could 2022, he signed a four-year contract value $38.7 million assured.
