Rejent v. Liberation Publications, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sullivan, J. P.
This appeal, from the denial of a motion to dismiss a cause of action for defamation as legally insufficient (CPLR 3211 [a] [7]), presents the issue of whether an advertisement featuring a picture of plaintiff, a professional male model, is, as he contends, reasonably susceptible of the defamatory connotation that he is "sexually lustful, promiscuous and immoral” and, if it is, whether it is defamatory per se.
Defendant Liberation Publications, Inc., is the publisher of a magazine entitled The Advocate, "The National Gay and Lesbian News magazine”, a…
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