Bristol Palin Sued By Bar Heckler 
 
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 He toldher mother was "evil" and a "whore" ... but now the man who verbally accosted's daughter in a Hollywood bar last year is suing Bristol for defamation.It's all over that infamous encounter at Saddle Ranch on the Sunset Strip back in September ... whenshouted at Bristol, " Your mother's a whore " (clip below -- skip to 1:40).Hanks is pissed because he claims the incident was captured by a reality TV crew that was with Bristol. "In his lawsuit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Hanks claims Bristol later gave an interview to a gossip mag and blamed him for causing her to leave Los Angeles and move back to Alaska.Hanks claims he can PROVE Bristol was lying ... because she had already purchased a new home in Alaska two months before their encounter.Hanks says Bristol's statements to the gossip mag hurt his reputation and damaged his career.In the suit, Hanks also gripes that Bristol accused him of being gay during their encounter -- saying she could "tell" by the way he looked.Hanks is suing Bristol and A&E -- the company behind Lifetime.
– Stephen Hanks, who famously heckled Bristol Palin in a Los Angeles bar while she was filming her reality show, may have apologized … but now he's suing over her "outrageous" conduct. Hanks, a talent manager, says he never gave permission to be filmed, and is suing Palin and Lifetime—which is including video of the incident in Life's a Tripp, premiering Tuesday—for defamation, claiming he suffered emotional distress and invasion of privacy when Palin asked him if he was gay. Palin said the incident was partly to blame for why she left LA and returned to Alaska, but Hanks claims she had already bought her new Alaska home at the time—and thus further defamed him by blaming their exchange for her departure. His lawyer tells Reuters that Hanks attempted to communicate with Lifetime's parent company A&E about using the footage, but got no response. Hanks wants unspecified damages; his lawyer says the amount is more than $75,000. Click to relive the bar encounter.