MILLIONAIRE bra tycoon Michelle Mone is being sued for "limitless damages" after allegedly branding a person "a waste of a white man's pores and skin".
Monetary marketing consultant Richard Lynton-Jones, who's of Indian heritage, has filed the bombshell ten-page writ in opposition to the Scots Tory peer in London's Excessive Court docket.
He claims her actions have brought on him "monumental misery, embarrassment and damage to emotions".
And his attorneys are demanding an enormous pay-out in aggravated damages of at the least £200,000 from the Baroness, 50.
The pair's bitter dispute dates again to a tragic 2019 yachting accident in Cannes, France, when a younger crew member misplaced his life.
Woman Mone is alleged to have later despatched the racist WhatsApp message to Mr Lynton-Jones and others.
In different messages, she can also be accused of calling his then accomplice "a psychological loony", "mad" and "a nut case chook".
When particulars of the exchanges leaked final December, Woman Mone posted a 127-word assertion on Instagram.
She accused Mr Lynton-Jones of "entitled white privilege" and failing to answer cops.
A press release issued by the peer's personal attorneys additionally insisted his "look is 100 per cent white, with a cut-glass English accent".
However Mr Lynton-Jones' attorneys say each statements have been defamatory.
They argue her Instagram publish wrongly steered Mr Lynton-Jones had "falsely accused" Woman Mone of "making a racist remark".
And so they say it additionally falsely implied he was "moderately suspected of involvement within the manslaughter of a younger boy" AND had "disgracefully refused" to cooperate with - and even converse to - cops investigating the tragedy.
Woman Mone "effectively knew" her remark about Mr Lynton-Jones was racist, the writ claims.
It says the Tory peer was conscious he had been the sufferer of a racially aggravated assault in Majorca in 2007 that left him needing steel plates implanted in his cheek.
Extremely, the courtroom papers add: "The defendant was effectively conscious of this, having touched the plates ensuing from the racist assault, which made her false denial significantly merciless."
RACE ROW
The writ says Woman Mone knew Mr Lynton-Jones "effectively" and "knew that he was not 100 per cent white, his having mentioned his heritage with the defendant and her husband Mr Barrowman on varied events beforehand".
It provides: "Specifically, the claimant and the defendant had recognized one another various years, had hung out collectively on holidays and in social occasions on quite a few events."
Mr Lynton-Jones had complained to the Met's hate crime unit, the Home of Lords Commissioner for Requirements and the Committee on Requirements in Public Life about Woman Mone's WhatsApp exchanges final 12 months.
Information of the complaints leaked final December - and Woman Mone's attorneys hit again in a robust assertion.
However Mr Lynton-Jones' authorized staff says that was additionally libellous, as a result of it steered he was LYING concerning the WhatsApp messages and Woman Mone's alleged racism.
They argue her later Instagram publish was learn by her 114,000 followers, whereas information studies have been seen by "many hundreds of thousands" extra.
POLICE PROBE
Mr Lynton-Jones' writ says the assertion and Instagram publish have "brought on critical hurt to the claimant's private and professional popularity".
And so they say the "very critical nature of the imputations conveyed, involving critical dishonesty and involvement in manslaughter" will now be relied on in courtroom.
The writ provides: "The defendant's publication of the article has brought on the claimant monumental misery, embarrassment and damage to emotions".
Mr Lynton-Jones is demanding an injunction to cease Woman Mone from repeating the feedback, damages, and prices.
Woman Mone is because of be quizzed by cops over the alleged racist slur.
The investigation by the Metropolitan Police comes after parliamentary officers stated the declare made in a proper criticism fell outdoors of their jurisdiction.
Woman Mone, who has not been arrested, has been requested to attend a police station for an interview below warning.
She was beforehand because of meet officers in central London for the formal, taped interview, however pulled out on the eleventh hour.
The peer requested for the assembly to be re-scheduled and it's anticipated to happen quickly.
Baroness Mone's lawyer at the moment stated: "This declare was served with out prior discover to Baroness Mone in contravention of the Civil Process Guidelines. She has been suggested that it lacks advantage and can defend it vigorously."
MOGUL'S DENIAL
In an announcement issued final month, her reps stated: "Baroness Mone is 100 per cent not a racist.
"Baroness Mone and her husband have constructed over 15 faculties in Africa up to now three years.”
They stated Woman Mone had no reminiscence of the messages and has "no entry" to them.
The assertion stated it was "as illogical as it's inconceivable that she may or would have made such a remark or made it with the slightest racist intent".
It added: "She is just not ready to touch upon the messages except and till their authenticity has been confirmed however Baroness Mone, in any occasion, very strongly denies that she is a racist, a sexist or that she has a scarcity of respect for these individuals genuinely struggling with psychological well being difficulties."
Woman Mone additionally spoke out on the claims on her Instagram account.
She stated: "Since when did calling out a person on his actions after a manslaughter and his entitled white privilege represent racism?
"Fairly the opposite- the accusations I've learn at the moment in opposition to me are stuffed with contradictions.
"I'll set the report straight on this defamation earlier than deciding on any authorized motion."
Woman Mone, who made her fortune by the underwear empire Ultimo, was appointed to the Lords by then PM David Cameron in 2015.
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