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No Defamation From Comments on Atlanta Reality TV Show

By Kathleen Baydala Joyner
May 02, 2015

An Atlanta R&B singer who said on a reality TV show that the CEO of her former record label mismanaged her career and beat her years ago in a hotel room has prevailed in a defamation lawsuit the CEO brought in Fulton County Superior Court. Judge Robert McBurney granted summary judgment to Kimberly Michelle Pate, better known in the music industry as K. Michelle, and the reality show's production companies. Wright v. Pate, 2012CV225263.

Pate was a cast member on a VH1 show called Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, which featured recording artists trying to reach fame. During the first season of the show, Pate discussed her soured personal and professional relationship with Mickey Wright Jr., who goes by the trade name MeMpHiTz and was CEO of the Hitz Committee record label.

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