Manziel targeted in questionable lawsuit

Manziel targeted in questionable lawsuit

Published May. 23, 2014 11:20 a.m. ET

The latest bit of Johnny Manziel "news" goes in the realm of the totally ridiculous.

A defendant claiming to be CNN contributor Samantha Schacher recently filed a $25 million lawsuit in Florida against Manziel for sexual harassment, asking for a temporary restraining order with claims that would appear to be fabricated -- and most of them aren't appropriate for this website.

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This is a real claim, though -- three pages filed in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, on May 2, with a return address of the publically available address of CNN. It hit the World Wide Web and Twitter on Friday morning.

Manziel's agent, Erik Burkhardt, wrote on his Twitter account: "This joke 'lawsuit' is obviously 1000000% fake and/ or frivolous. Embarrassing I even have say this after reading the nonsense."

Fame has a price, but in this case it won't be $25 million.

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