Richard Simmons Has Been Ordered To Pay Up

Poor Richard Simmons.

If you recall, he lost his trans lawsuit against the National Enquirer. It was all over this. Remember?

He’s not a trans woman named Fiona, because he’s not trans woman named Fiona. He has never “sought nor obtained any medical treatment or procedure designed to transition from male to female.” It’s as simple as that. He also doesn’t have boobs. Just FYI.

Those are the reasons he is not trans, please and thank you. Unfortunately, the judge didn’t see it that way. Simmons lost the defamation lawsuit, because the judge didn’t want to  “validate prejudice.”

“While, as a practical matter, the characteristic may be held in contempt by a portion of the population, the court will not validate those prejudices by legally recognizing them,” the judge said.

Translation: The judge didn’t want to suggest that “being trans” is an insult. That’s just mean! Simmons should’ve taken that as a compliment!

Because of that, Simmons has been ordered to dish out thousands of dollars, all because the National Enquirer lied about him.

Richard Simmons was ordered to pay nearly $130,000 to the National Enquirer and Radar Online after the exercise guru sued the two media outlets for running a series of articles alleging he was transitioning to become a woman.

Simmons, 69, was ordered by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory Keosian Friday to pay the media outlets’ attorneys’ fees and American Media, their publisher, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The defendants sought $220,000 in a motion filed in January that Simmons’ lawyers dubbed a “billing fiesta.”

How unfair is that?

Simmons is reportedly “appealing the dismissal motion.”

This is so messed up.

h/t Page Six