Pras Michel Of The Fugees Files $30 Million Suit Against The New York Post

Grammy-winning Fugees singer Prakazrel Samuel Michel, (aka Pras) has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the New York Post over an article that claimed he “bailed on his own 9/11 benefit concert.”

The Brooklyn native says he had nothing to do with the organization hosting the event in question and was on another continent in the days leading up to the concert. The accusations have also prompted Pras to employ both a lawyer and a shrink.

On Sunday, the notoriously fact-challenged Post ran a story alleging the 41-year-old “Ghetto Superstar” singer was a “no show” at a benefit for “his” Hope for Them organization in Hell’s Kitchen.

The case, filed in Broward County, Fla., where Pras resides, claims “the reckless ‘reporting’ would be deemed as such had a high school student drafted the Article.”

It further contends that the paper ran the tall tale without “attempting any real outreach to uncover if any truth existed.”

“I was in L.A. when this event happened,” Pras told Confidenti@l, doing unrelated charity work and watching a wrestling match in the days before the 9/11 event. “I’d just come back from North Korea.”

The Post reports that promoter Mike Jean told them Pras didn’t perform at the 9/11 event because he had the flu, though the former Fugee told us he felt perfectly fine in September. He also said he’d been planning the trip to North Korea since March.

“You don’t just ‘go’ to North Korea,” Pras said.

He also said he has no problem with media gossip coverage, but draws the line when it comes to compromising his value as a celebrity philanthropist.

“When you talk about charity, that is serious,” he said. “I have to litigate.”

Pras says dozens of people have called to ask why he bailed on a Sept. 11 charity. All he can tell them, he says, is that the Post, predictably, got it wrong. “I’m going to see a therapist about this,” he said. “I’m traumatized. And I’ve never seen a therapist in my life.”

According to Pras, “You are provoking a specific emotion when you invoke 9/11.”

Pras has no plans to sue Jean at this point because he’s a promoter — not a journalist.

“We’ll get to him,” the singer said about Jean. “I don’t think that’s a big thing. But (the reporter) is worse.”

Major defamation cases are becoming old hat at the Post. Just last week, the down-market tab reportedly settled another defamation suit for an undisclosed sum after implicating two innocent Massachusetts residents in 2013’s Boston Marathon bombings.

A rep for the Post declined to comment on the lawsuit.

At attorney hired by Mike Jean on Wednesday afternoon said “the matter is under review.”

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