A dispute between Zac Brown and his estranged spouse, Kelly Yazdi, has spilled into social media and the courtroom system.
The Grammy-winning singer of the Zac Brown Band has sued Yazdi over a web-based submit, prompting a forceful response from her on Instagram.
The couple, who obtained married final 12 months, have every lobbed accusations of tarnishing each other’s popularity.
Here is what to know concerning the controversy.
Why is Zac Brown suing Kelly Yazdi?
Brown, 45, filed a lawsuit in Georgia on Might 17 demanding that Yazdi take down an Instagram submit he stated broke a confidentiality settlement and negatively impacted his public picture, in accordance with courtroom paperwork obtained by NBC Information.
He’s looking for a short lived restraining order forcing her to take away the submit. It isn’t clear within the courtroom paperwork what particular Instagram submit he’s asking to have taken down.
The lawsuit additionally asks for the courtroom to stop Yazdi from “making any defamatory, false, unfaithful, or in any other case damaging statements” about Brown, his household and his bandmates, in accordance with NBC Information.
Has Zac Brown publicly stated something concerning the lawsuit?
A day after submitting the lawsuit, Brown issued an announcement to NBC Information about why he took authorized motion.
“After a lot deliberation, I took the steps essential to implement an settlement between us to take care of private and enterprise affairs in confidence and to guard my household from on-line harassment and hypothesis,” Brown stated.
“My solely hope is for us to maintain personal issues personal and to maneuver ahead with the mutual respect we had agree to indicate each other after we parted methods,” he continued.
What’s Kelly Yazdi’s response to the lawsuit?
Yazdi fired again with an Instagram submit on Might 20, calling Brown’s lawsuit “a meritless submitting” and saying she is going to “not be silenced” by Brown’s “ridiculous” techniques.
The actor, mannequin and hunter, who has appeared on the TV collection “Hawaii 5-O,” stated that the Instagram posts in query within the lawsuit are “two poems” she posted.
“I intend to reply swiftly and robustly to his meritless criticism that publication of two poems on my private social media account divulged any ‘confidential info’ about his enterprise, a lot much less authorizes a courtroom to enjoin me from talking about issues in my private life that don’t have anything to do with my temporary former work for the Zac Brown Collective, Inc.,” she wrote.
Yazdi, 33, additionally alleged Brown launched a music video that negatively portrayed her.
“It’s past ironic that Zac’s first act after submitting an pointless public divorce lawsuit was to launch a music video that intentionally mocked our marriage ceremony occasion from only some months earlier than — together with a false and defamatory caricature clearly supposed to be me and harm me — adopted by a second pointless and legally meritless public lawsuit and press launch, but he now claims his ‘solely hope’ is that we present one another ‘mutual respect’ by conserving ‘personal issues personal’ as we negotiate the phrases of our divorce,” she wrote.
Yazdi went on to elucidate that she made “no public response” to Brown’s “pointless private assaults” towards her in an effort to take care of privateness and set up respect. Nonetheless, she stated that Brown’s latest actions have proven his intentions are in any other case.
“However it’s clearly Zac, not me, who has strategically chosen to pull our troublesome divorce negotiations into the general public eye with these techniques in an effort to painting himself as a sufferer and to make use of his huge sources to silence me from telling the reality about our marriage,” she wrote. “It won’t work, and I cannot be silenced by him irrespective of how ridiculous his techniques. Like Zac, I’ve legal professionals too, and I’ll inform my reality in courtroom — the place he has unnecessarily dragged me.”
NBC Information reached out to Brown for remark about Yazdi’s assertion however has not heard again but.
Are Zac Brown and Kelly Yazdi getting a divorce?
The 2 have been married in August 2023 and introduced 4 months later that they have been getting divorced.
“We’re within the strategy of divorce. … We want one another the perfect and can all the time recognize our time collectively,” they stated as a part of a joint assertion, in accordance with NBC Information.
Brown was beforehand married for 12 years to Shelly Brown, whom he break up with in 2018. The 2 have 5 youngsters collectively.