{"id":209469,"date":"2025-12-06T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/will-smith-and-jada-pinkett-smith-a-committed-team-despite-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:16:08","slug":"will-smith-and-jada-pinkett-smith-a-committed-team-despite-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/will-smith-and-jada-pinkett-smith-a-committed-team-despite-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith &#8216;a committed team&#8217; despite lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-12-06\" datetime=\"1765019768\" pubdate=\"\">6 December 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/will-smith\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,will-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Smith<\/a> and Jada Pinkett Smith are a \u201ccommitted team\u201d despite Will\u2019s friend recently filing a lawsuit against her.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith &#8216;a committed team&#8217; despite lawsuit<\/p>\n<p>Jada, 54, is being sued for $3 million by Bilaal Salaam, who is also known as Brother Bilaal and has described himself as a &#8220;best friend&#8221; of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/will-smith\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,will-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Smith<\/a> &#8220;for nearly 40 years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by PEOPLE, a complaint filed this week alleged that Pinkett Smith confronted Salaam in the Regency Calabasas Commons lobby on September 25, 2021 during a private 53rd birthday party for Smith.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s claimed she had around &#8220;seven members of her entourage&#8221; by her side at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He has alleged the Gotham star &#8220;became verbally aggressive, and threatened Plaintiff by stating that if he didn&#8217;t stop &#8216;telling her personal business'&#8221;, he would &#8220;&#8216;end up missing or catch a bullet'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe also claimed she &#8220;demanded&#8221; he sign a nondisclosure agreement &#8220;or else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, despite the lawsuit, Will and Jada\u2019s relationship &#8220;is still good\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nA source told PEOPLE: \u201cThey spend time together and time apart. They have deep respect for each other and work together as well as sharing a family life.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThey are a committed team in their own way. They have put many years into this.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThey have a good relationship, they are both are busy with entertainment projects and other related business interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, according to PEOPLE, Salaam has also claimed that towards the end of March 2022, he refused a request from a mutual friend calling on him to help with &#8220;crisis management&#8221; after Smith struck Chris Rock over a joke about Pinkett Smith&#8217;s shaved hair.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe filing continues that he &#8220;refused to perform tasks he believed were illegal, unethical, or morally compromising&#8221;, insisting that &#8220;his conscience would not allow him to be involved in any cover-up or deceptive PR campaign&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe has alleged that he subsequently received threats from those around the husband and wife, who separated in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\nSalaam is set to write a &#8220;whistleblower memoir&#8221; about his experiences around the pair, and he claimed he has faced further threats as a result.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe is said to be suing Jada for intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe has alleged that he suffered financial loss, emotional drama, physical health issues and reputational harm, as well as a &#8220;complete derailment of his personal life and career&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/will-smith-jada-pinkett-smith-committed-team-despite-lawsuit-1434204.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 December 2025 Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are a \u201ccommitted team\u201d despite Will\u2019s friend recently filing a lawsuit against her. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith &#8216;a committed team&#8217; despite lawsuit Jada, 54, is being sued for $3 million by Bilaal Salaam, who is also known as Brother Bilaal and has described himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1432,1005],"class_list":{"0":"post-209469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-jada-pinkett-smith","9":"tag-will-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}