Rerun’s Widow’s $5Million Claims Against Steve Harvey

As we previously reported, in March 2018, Essie Berry filed a $5 million lawsuit against Steve Harvey, accusing him “stalking,” harassment, and ‘murder of her emotional state of mind.’

In the lawsuit, Essie says in 2013 she was approached to do a reality TV show titled, “Widow, Wives, and Ex Celebrity Wives,” and she asked Steve Harvey’s ex-wife, Mary Vaughn, to join the show. Essie claims when Steve caught wind of her offer to his ex-wife, he proceeded to enforce the sealed gag order that legally prohibits Mary Vaughn from discussing Harvey in public. Mrs. Rerun also claims that she had no clue there was a sealed gag order in place at that time, but claims Steve then “defamed” her, by allegedly accusing her of being an “extortionist” and “co-conspirator.”

'Steve Harvey's Trying To Destroy Me!' https://t.co/AWfzSlIrSs via @nationalenquirer

— Essie Berry (@ActivistBerry) April 9, 2018

Via RadarOnline: “Steve Harvey continued to make attempts to shatter and murder Ms. Berry’s emotional state of mind through the Texas court’s with a lie for years,” Berry wrote. “Mr. Harvey made attempts to silence Ms. Berry through malicious prosecution in order to protect his super stardom image. … With feelings of hopelessness and depression, Ms. Berry was forced to be silent for four years in order to protect what little image she had left, and to protect Mary — while Mr. Harvey paraded around making false allegations against both Ms. Berry and Mary,” she continued. […] She also is requesting $5 million and an apology.

Now Steve has responded…

Harvey Takes Legal Action: “Enough is enough”

In April 2018, it went largely unnoticed by many, that Steve clapped back at Mrs. Rerun and her $5 million lawsuit, in court docs. And it doesn’t look like he has any plans on paying Essie one red cent of what she’s asking for:

Via RadarOnlne: In Los Angeles Superior Court documents filed April 9, 2018…Harvey challenges the claims made by…Fred Rerun Berry’s widow, Essie. Harvey seeks to throwout Berry’s lawsuit against him “on the grounds that the complaint fails to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against Mr. Harvey.”

In the notice of demurrer, Harvey’s team alleges Berry is just an “agent” of Harvey’s ex, Mary Vaughn, and was enlisted to tarnish his reputation. “Thirteen years ago a Texas court entered a divorce decree between Mary Vaughn and Broderick (Steve) Harvey. Unwilling to move on with her life, Ms. Vaughn has engaged in prolonged [pattern] of harassment and vexatious litigation against Mr. Harvey that has resulted in four separate injunction orders and a judicial finding of contempt against her for violating court orders on at least twenty separate occasions. […] “Undeterred, and unrepentant, Ms. Vaughn has enlisted her acknowledged agent, Plaintiff Essie Berry, to continue her quixotic campaign to tarnish Mr. Harvey’s reputation and re-litigate the divorce case. … [Essie Berry’s] “rambling and incoherent pleading is woefully deficient… Enough is enough,” Harvey’s legal team argues.

Harvey’s official court hearing, to dispute Essie Berry’s claims, will go down on June 7, 2018.

Pretty sure that back in the day, when Steve was watching “What’s Happening,” he probably never imagined in a million years that he’d be battling “Rerun’s” wife. Anywho…we’ll keep y’all posted on this one.

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The Court Filing:

According to Radar Online, the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on March 8 in paints a pretty disturbing image of Steve. Mrs.  Berry is reportedly accusing Harvey of stalking, harassment, and even “murder” of a woman’s “emotional state of mind,” according to the new lawsuit. Because of his alleged actions, she’s reportedly attempting to hit Harvey where it hurts – his pockets. Esssie Berry, a civil rights activist, is said to be suing Harvey for $5 million. She claims all the drama started back in 2013, when she was offered a chance to appear on the reality series, “Widow, Wives and Ex Celebrity Wives.” She’d also asked Steve’s ex, Mary Vaughn, if she wanted to appear on the show. Apparently, this appeared to be a threat for Steve Harvey, because it would give Vaughn the opportunity she’d been waiting for- a mainstream opportunity to share the other side of the story. When Berry asked Vaughn about the reality series, she reportedly insisted she had no clue they had a sealed gag order in the state of Texas.

Berry claims Harvey quickly made efforts to halt their actions and he allegedly turned his frustrations toward her, which is why she’s accusing him of stalking and harassment. In the lawsuit, she detailed Steve’s alleged behavior. She claims he even defamed her character allegedly describing her as a “extortionist” and “co-conspirator.”

“Steve Harvey continued to make attempts to shatter and murder Ms. Berry’s emotional state of mind through the Texas court’s with a lie for years,” Berry wrote. “Mr. Harvey made attempts to silence Ms. Berry through malicious prosecution in order to protect his superstardom image.”

Although Harvey was reportedly been granted a gag order against his ex, Vaughn, in the state of Texas, he also didn’t want her going public with anything either. Berry claims the comedian attempted to silence them where the reality show was concerned, because he feared it “would reveal the truth about Mr. Harvey and Mary’s marriage/breakup, their family life, the ups and downs of being a celebrity ex-wife, and Mr. Harvey’s indiscretions.”

Similar Claims:

The latest lawsuit against Steve Harvey follows similar claims from his ex-wife. For those who missed all that drama, Mary Vaughn also claimed Harvey used malicious tactics to ruin her life, her finances, and her relationship with their son. At the time, she described the tactics as complete “torture.”

Unfortunately for Vaughn, back in January, a judge ruled in favor of Harvey and the lawsuit was dismissed. In December, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory Keosian dismissed the case and stated that the case appeared to be a matter that should have been filed in Texas where the couple actually filed for divorce.

“Her claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, and invasion of privacy, although vaguely stated, appear to arise from Harvey’s alleged infidelities during marriage and a later incident involving her arrest and gag order,” Keosian wrote in the Dec. 15 order. “The infidelity allegations would properly have been a matter for their martial dissolution proceeding, and the injustice of the gag order mat be taken up with the Texas court charged with implementing it. It is likewise apparent that Vaughn’s fraud claims arises from Harvey allegedly ‘dishonestly calculating for his advantage land, real estate, stocks,’ and other properties in their mutual division of property. Vaughn’s defamation and conversion claims also appear to arise from the same nucleus of facts.”

Like Mary Vaughn, “Rerun’s” widow may be facing an uphill battle by going to war with Steve Harvey.

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