After news of the lawsuit broke, Jim Carrey released a statement to PEOPLE saying that he will be publicly fighting this claim rather than keeping the legal proceedings behind closed doors.
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“There are some moments in life when you have to stand up and defend your honor against the devil in this world”, Carrey said.
Jim Carrey on April 18, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. “I will not tolerate this heartless attempt to exploit me or the woman I loved”. “I really hope someday soon people will stop trying to profit from this and let her rest in peace”.
As if dealing with the suicide of your girlfriend was not enough, but now Jim Carrey is facing a wrongful death lawsuit from Cathriona White’s estranged husband Mark Burton.
Our thoughts are with her family as they continue to mourn her passing. “White coming to light”.
In papers filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Mark Burton accused the 54-year-old actor of “using his huge weath and celebrity status to illegally obtain and distribute highly addictive and in this case deadly controlled substances”. “The result that followed was predictable and foreseeable”.
Coroner’s officials ruled the 30-year-old makeup artist’s death a suicide.
According to the case filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Carrey, 54, obtained the drugs under the fake name “Arthur King”.
Burton is now seeking a jury trial in the case. He also claims that Carrey tried to cover up his own misconduct and his “complicity in her death”. After her death, police revealed that they found prescription medicines not prescribed in her name.
TMZ reports that his representatives say the meds were obtained using “routine practices”, as many celebrities use an alias to “protect their privacy”.
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Burton’s suit says Carrey sent a bogus text message to White on September 27, when she was already dead, pretending he had misplaced the drugs and “insinuating White may have taken them from Carrey without his knowledge, when in reality Carrey knew full well that he had voluntarily and illegally provided the fraudulently obtained and prescribed drugs to White days prior”, the lawsuit says. Carrey is said to have made quite a few public announcements in his offer to pay for his ex-girlfriend’s funeral costs, but he never made good on those offers.
