Sheree Zampino has filed suit for more than $1 million after a guest on the Tasha K podcast said she was "sleeping with everyone in Hollywood," according to court documents reviewed by TMZ.
The complaint, first reported by TMZ, says Zampino seeks $1 million in damages and points to a social media teaser for the podcast in which Bilaal Salaam repeated the charge and, the suit says, called her a "whore" multiple times during the interview. Zampino and her lawyers say those remarks were slanderous and caused humiliation, emotional distress, embarrassment and mental anguish.
In the filings, lawyers for Zampino cite the podcast teaser and the interview as the source of the alleged harm. The court papers, as described by TMZ, frame the case around specific public statements and seek monetary relief tied to reputational and emotional injury — the concrete claims that make this more than a public dispute between former acquaintances.
The move lands on familiar ground for Zampino. She was married to Will Smith for three years in the 1990s, a biographical fact that the lawsuit notes only as part of her public profile. The episode comes amid broader legal drama linking Bilaal Salaam, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith: Salaam’s friendship with Will Smith had already hit a point of no return after an earlier explosive interview about Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s sex life, and Salaam later accused Jada Pinkett Smith of threatening him in retaliation and launched a multimillion-dollar lawsuit of his own.
Tension in the record centers on credibility and consequence. Salaam’s on-air accusations are blunt and repeated; the court documents say he used the word "whore" multiple times. At the same time, Salaam’s separate multimillion-dollar suit has not been going in his favor, a fact Zampino’s lawyers are likely to press if the two cases converge in public attention or legal strategy. The collision of these claims — profanity-laced public accusations and counters that they damaged reputation and mental health — is exactly what turns a viral remark into a legal dispute.
For Zampino, the lawsuit is framed as a direct response to that public damage. Her lawyers argue the remarks were untrue and designed to humiliate; the damages sought reflect both the financial and personal toll they say followed the podcast appearance. The documents reviewed by TMZ set the figure at over $1 million, and the $1 million figure tied to the initial filing clarifies the scale Zampino is asking a court to consider.
The larger legal backdrop matters because it changes how each new accusation is likely to be received in court and in public. Salaam’s prior fall-out with Will Smith, his public accusations about the Smiths’ private life, and his own struggling litigation record create a crowded, adversarial setting in which claims of truth, motive and harm will compete. That dynamic will shape discovery, witness choices and whether either side seeks a quick settlement or a prolonged fight.
Zampino has chosen the courts to answer a direct question the podcast left hanging: she says the comments were false and harmful, and she is asking a judge to award more than $1 million to make her whole. Given Salaam’s recent legal troubles, Zampino’s filing does more than seek damages — it puts fresh legal pressure on a figure whose other lawsuits have not been going in his favor.
