PHOTOSFiring Back! Jim Carrey Slams ‘Bogus’ STD Claims & Calls Out Late Ex’s Fake Marriage
Sept. 23 2016, Published 3:47 p.m. ET
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Jim Carrey slammed the latest claims in the wrongful death lawsuit of ex Cathriona White, calling his late former girlfriend’s marriage a “sham.”
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In a statement from his legal team, the actor denied recently allegations in the suit filed by White’s estranged husband, Mark Burton, about passing sexually transmitted diseases to her.
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“The claim that Mr. Carrey gave Cathriona White an STD is categorically disputed,” the statement read. “This is a desperate, bogus claim made by the ‘husband’ of the sham marriage.”
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Carrey’s attorney went on to say that Burton “engaged in an illegal sham marriage…to evade immigration laws, after Cathriona White had asked numerous people — including my client — to marry her so she could stay in the country.”
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The lawsuit also alleged that Carrey played a role in her death and used “his immense wealth and celebrity status to illegally obtain and distribute highly addictive, and, in this case deadly controlled substances” under a fake name and gave them to White, a claim Jim’s reps also denied.
