Arsenio Hall Sues Sinead O'Conner For $5M In Defamation Lawsuit

Arsenio Hall filed a $5 million lawsuit against Sinead O’Connor Thursday over the singer’s claim that he was Prince’s drug supplier.

Hall filed the defamation suit after O’Connor took to Facebook following Prince’s death to accuse the former talk show host of feeding the megastar pills for decades.

Hall’s suit, filed by lawyers Marty Singer and Lynda Goldman, labels O’Connor a “desperate attention seeker” who is “now known perhaps as much for her bizarre, unhinged internet rants as she is for her music.”

O’Connor’s post was shared and like hundreds of times and reported by media worldwide, the lawsuit claims.

“Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the decades.... Arsenio Hall (AKA Prince’s and Eddie Murphy's b*****),” O’Connor wrote Monday on Facebook.

The 49-year-old singer, who had a massive hit with the Prince-penned “Nothing Compares 2 U,” went on to accuse Hall of drugging her and said that Prince was a “long time hard drug user” before his lifeless body was found April 21 at his Chanhassen, Minn. home.

The Irish songstress has “repeatedly admitted that she actually detested Prince during his life, had a feud with Prince, and that she once had a violent fistfight with Prince and spat on him repeatedly after she told Prince,” according to the suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

TMZ first reported the lawsuit.

The legal move comes as the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. attorney’s office joined the probe into what is appearing more and more like a criminal investigation into Prince’s passing.

The official cause of death has still not been disclosed, and autopsy results are pending — including toxicology tests.

But investigators are already focused on a possible Prince overdose on prescription medication.

The singer was set to enter an intensive rehab program with a California doctor, according to a lawyer for the addiction specialist.

O’Connor was unapologetic in her Facebook screed.

“Anyone imagining prince was not a long time hard drug user is living in cloud cuckoo land,” O’Connor wrote in her rant.

“Arsenio I’ve reported you to the Carver County Sherrif's office. Expect their call,” she went on. “They are aware you spiked me years ago at Eddie murphy's house. You best get tidying your man cave.”

Hall denies supplying Prince with illegal drugs or drugging O’Connor in the lawsuit.

O’Connor has used social media to share deeply personal posts about her own struggles with drugs and depression in recent years.

Last November she wrote a shocking note claiming she had taken an overdose of pills in response to a “horrific set of betrayals.”

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