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Tyrese's Ex-Wife Suing Him for Defamation After He Posted Paperwork of Legal Filing

The actor-singer's first wife, Norma Mitchell, has accused Tyrese of defamation after making Instagram posts over a dispute involving their daughter.

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Tyrese Gibson has angered a handful of people this week, including his ex-wife, Norma Mitchell.

According to TMZ, on Tuesday, Mitchell filed a lawsuit against the "How You Gonna Act Like That" vocalist in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The move comes shortly after Gibson made a barrage of Instagram posts regarding a dispute with Mitchell over their 16-year-old daughter, Shayla, from Apr. 30 to May 7.

"I get it, I get it… We are living in the TIMES UP and ME TOO ERA! And as soon as a man goes public about the abuse and trauma inflicted on him by a women we are shamed into silence?" Gibson wrote in a caption from a post on May 1. "I’m past that…Be yourself in my comments! STFU , MAN UP! Stop putting your personal shit out there on the timeline…. Be more private?"

The dispute appears to involve a disagreement the former spouses are having over their daughter's school tuition, but Mitchell claims that Gibson intentionally made the situation public. The lawsuit reads that the Fast & Furious actor resorted to allegedly "slamming Mitchell with a cruel barrage of derogatory and defamatory posts, including false accusations [that] she has committed blackmail, extortion, death threats, tax evasion, forgery, bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering."

In addition to the Instagram posts, in Gibson's was allegedly a Google Drive link with a legal filing, which listed personal details involving Mitchell and his daughter's school. Mitchell is now asking the court to demand that Gibson remove the posts indefinitely.

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