The mother of a popular YouTube personality has dropped the lawsuit she filed against an unnamed woman who allegedly defamed the plaintiff on Instagram and published private information, including her address.
Tiffany Smith’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit was filed April 20 and identified the alleged author of the damaging comments only as Jane Doe because she was unable to identify her. Smith, whose daughter is 13-year-old YouTube personality Piper Rockelle, sought unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Smith’s attorneys filed court papers on Oct. 22 asking Judge Susan Bryant-Deason to dismiss the suit “without prejudice,” meaning the plaintiff can refile it later if circumstances warrant her doing so. The final court papers still identified the defendant as Jane Doe.
According to the plaintiff, her daughter has nearly 5 million YouTube subscribers and 3 million Instagram followers. Doe is an Instagram subscriber who, along with others, created an account on Instagram dubbed ExposingRockelles, according to the suit, which described the account as a “hate” page “dedicated to harassing and disseminating false and defamatory allegations” against Smith and her family.
Smith learned in March that Doe published assertions that she is involved in child pornography in order to subject her family to shame, embarrassment, humiliation and ridicule, the suit alleged.
Doe also published Smith’s address and posted photographs of her home, where Piper also resides, “in order to intimidate and expose plaintiff and her family to harassment and harm…,” according to the suit.
In one posting Doe wrote, “Someone’s address just got leaked. Credits: my team,” according to the suit, which says the defendant’s actions resulted “in the intended outcome as strangers appeared at plaintiff’s home and the police had to be called.”
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