COEUR d’ALENE — A jury has awarded more than $1.1 million in damages to the drag performer who sued a blogger for defamation.
The unanimous verdict was returned Friday. The jury found that blogger Summer Bushnell defamed Post Falls resident Eric Posey when she accused him of exposing himself to the crowd while he performed in drag at the Coeur d’Alene City Park bandshell in June 2022.
“The judicial system did what needed to be done,” Posey said after hearing the verdict Friday.
Jurors awarded Posey $926,000 in compensatory damages for defamation. Because Posey proved that Bushnell knew her allegations were false when she made them or that she made the accusations with “reckless…
