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Alec Baldwin is camera shy.
The “30 Rock” actor is trying to keep video of his 2018 parking-spot squabble under wraps because it will show he “assaulted” his parking rival, the alleged victim claimed in new court papers.
“The public has not seen the video, because Mr. Baldwin does not want it to be seen. The video confirms that Alec Baldwin assaulted Mr. Cieszkowski, then lied about it,” wrote lawyers for Wojciech Cieszkowski, who filed an assault and slander lawsuit against the comedian in April over the incident.
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“If a secret video proved that Mr. Baldwin didn’t commit an assault, his celebrity PR team presumably would have spread it all over social media and television the minute the story broke,” the court papers say.
Baldwin allegedly went ballistic on Cieszkowski — a contractor and Polish immigrant — because the man had taken a parking spot Baldwin had been waiting for outside of his East 10th Street apartment on Nov. 2.
Baldwin pleaded guilty to harassment and was ordered to take an anger management class and pay a $120 fine.
But Cieszkowski claims the actor defamed him in the media by saying he thought the man was going to run over his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, with his car.
Baldwin’s lawyers fired back in court papers in May that Cieszkowski’s slander claims should be tossed.
“Cieszkowski is trying to turn a minor altercation over a parking spot into a multi-million dollar lottery ticket,” Baldwin’s lawyer, Luke Nikas, wrote at the time.
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Cieszkowski’s lawyers responded Wednesday that motion should be denied and the slander claim should stand.
“With its overheated rhetoric and personal attacks, Mr. Baldwin’s partial motion to dismiss mainly seems designed to serve as a press release,” the court papers said.
Baldwin’s lawyer on Wednesday reiterated the claim that Cieszkowski is only out for a payday.
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“We intend to show the Court that Mr. Cieszkowski’s story is false—that the video evidence, eyewitness testimony, and medical records all prove that he’s searching for a jackpot he’s not entitled to receive,” Nikas said in a statement.
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