Montreal musician Frédérik Durand, who performs under the name Snails, has been awarded $1.5 million in a defamation lawsuit against a California Instagrammer who posted allegations of sexual impropriety. A Quebec-based electronic music artist hopes to get his career and life back on track after triumphing in an Alberta defamation lawsuit tied to social media posts accusing him of being a sexual predator.
Montreal musician Frédérik Durand, who performs under the name Snails , has been awarded $1.5 million in a defamation lawsuit against a California Instagrammer who posted allegations of sexual impropriety. A Quebec-based electronic music artist hopes to get his career and life back on track after triumphing in an Alberta defamation lawsuit tied to social media posts accusing him of being a sexual predator. “It was terrible.
The whole thing was like pure nightmare and hell,” Frederik Durand said in an interview from Montreal. The 35-year-old performer, who performs under the name Snails, said the Instagram reposts from California resident Michaela Higgins broadsided his career and dropped his earnings off a cliff. Durand and Higgins both say they have never met
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