Philip Seymour Hoffman Friend Hits Mag With $50M Libel Suit

By Pete Brush (February 7, 2014, 2:39 PM EST) -- A friend of Philip Seymour Hoffman hit American Media Inc. with a $50 million libel suit Wednesday claiming the publisher's National Enquirer magazine fabricated a story that quoted him as saying he and Hoffman were lovers and that the deceased actor was freebasing cocaine the night before he was found dead....

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