Actress Gabrielle Union is fed up with gossip blogs making up stories about her and has decided to take a stand.
The star of 'Cadillac Records' and 'Daddy's Little Girls' has lawyered up and is planning to take legal action against the Web site Bossip for printing a disreputable anonymous letter from an alleged "nameless pro-athlete's wife."
Union declares that the entire story is bogus and unsubstantiated and has demanded that Bossip remove the letter, print a retraction and send a written apology to her.
A friend of the actress spoke to BV Buzz under the condition of anonymity about the matter.
"I want your readers to know that it's all completely false," the friend told me. "Gabrielle will move forward with legal action against the writer and Bossip. All she asked for was a retraction and apology and to take it off their site, but they refused and now her goal is to make them pay! They straight up published a manifesto of a crazy person and they had to know it wasn't true."
The 36-year-old actress has been prone to gossip headlines linking her to entertainers, athletes and other high-profile personalities since her divorce from NFL star Chris Howard in April of 2006.
In January of 2008, (see 'Blasting the Blogs: Gabrielle Union Speaks Out') Union spoke to me about her frustrations with the bad blog press.
"I almost get to a point where you can say whatever you want to say about me, but print some facts about our community that can help somebody," she said then. "I don't care, because I combat lies. I really used to think that if you read it ... in a magazine, a newspaper, or you see it on TV, then it has to be true. And it's just not true! I don't even know how to combat that except for do more good things for the people that I care about, which is my own community."
Now, the Omaha, Neb.-bred actress has reached her boiling point and refuses to be a punching bag for arbitrary blogs any longer.
"If there was any truth to it, she would've just let it die," her friend confessed, before adding, "But she's a black actress who really can't afford to sue but intends to go broke fighting this if that's what it takes!"