text: Arsenio Hall Sues Sinead Over Prince Rant She's a Lying Attention Whore 
   
   Arsenio Hall Sues Sinead O'Connor Over Prince Rant ... She's a Lying Attention Whore 
   
   EXCLUSIVE 
   
   Arsenio Hall just clapped back at Sinead O'Connor with a $5 MILLION defamation lawsuit over her claim he was fueling Prince's habit. 
   
   His lawyers, Marty Singer and Lynda Goldman, filed the suit Thursday morning, in which Arsenio calls Sinead a "desperate attention-seeker" for posting an incendiary rant on Facebook earlier this week. She called Prince a "longtime hard drug user" who got his supply from "Arsenio Hall (AKA Prince's and Eddie Murphy's bitch)." 
   
   In the suit, Arsenio flat out denies ever supplying Prince with illegal drugs -- and adds, he hasn't had contact with Sinead for 25 years. He also denies spiking her with drugs back in the day ... as she claimed. 
   
   As for why she targeted him -- Arsenio says she's repeatedly said she met Prince a couple times and she "detested" him. She also says she told Prince "to go f*** himself." 
   
   Arsenio implies this is par for the course with Sinead, saying she is "well known for her media antics and for seeking attention through inflammatory Facebook posts." ||||| Story highlights U.S. comedian Arsenio Hall is suing singer Sinead O'Connor for defamation 
   
   O'Connor accused Hall of supplying Prince with hard drugs over "decades" in a Facebook post 
   
   Hall is seeking special damages "believed to be not less than" $5 million 
   
   (CNN) U.S. comedian Arsenio Hall is suing singer Sinead O'Connor for defamation. 
   
   This is after she posted a note on Facebook accusing Hall of supplying Prince with drugs "over the decades" and of spiking her with drugs. 
   
   The suit, filed in Los Angeles on Thursday, is seeking damages of "not less than" $5 million. 
   
   "Desperate, attention seeker Sinead O'Connor has maliciously published outlandish defamatory lies about comedian Arsenio Hall, falsely accusing him of supplying illegal 'hard drugs' 'over the decades' to the recently deceased music artist, Prince, and of spiking her with drugs once years ago," the lawsuit says.
target: – The death of Prince has opened up an ugly feud between Sinead O'Connor and Arsenio Hall that is now in the courts. In a Facebook post Monday, the Irish singer accused Hall—"AKA Prince's and Eddie Murphy's bitch"—of supplying Prince with hard drugs over many years, adding that she had reported him to authorities and that "anyone" who thought Prince "was not a long time hard drug user is living in cloud cuckoo land." In a later post, she accused Hall of spiking her with drugs at Murphy's house. Hall fired back with a $5 million lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Thursday, accusing O'Connor of telling "despicable, fabricated lies" in a bid for attention, CNN reports. "Hall will not stand idly by while O'Connor attempts to get attention for herself by recklessly spreading malicious, vile lies that he engaged in egregious criminal conduct which falsely links Hall to Prince's death," the lawsuit states. Hall denies ever supplying drugs to Prince and says he has had no contact with O'Connor for 25 years. TMZ reports that Hall says O'Connor, whose biggest hit was a cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U," only met the star a couple of times, and she "detested" him. (Prince was reportedly set to meet with an addiction specialist just before he died.)