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Will Smith Friend Claims Jada Threatened He’d ‘Catch a Bullet’ for Talking About Them

Bilaal Salaam alleges Jada Pinkett Smith threatened him and launched a retaliatory campaign after he refused crisis work, seeking $3 million for emotional and financial damages.

  • In a Dec. 1 complaint, Salaam alleges Jada Pinkett Smith confronted him at Will Smith's birthday at the Regency Calabasas Commons and threatened him with `or else` if he continued `telling her personal business`.
  • After Will Smith's 2022 Oscars incident, Bilaal Salaam says he refused a late-March 2022 request to assist with crisis management and alleges a retaliatory campaign followed soon after.
  • The suit alleges Pinkett Smith approached Salaam with approximately seven entourage members, demanded he sign an NDA 'or else,' and warned he would `end up missing or catch a bullet`; Salaam says an associate followed him to his car and continued threats.
  • He is suing for intentional infliction of emotional distress, alleging damage to reputation, health and finances, while reps for Jada and Will have not responded to requests for comment.
  • Pinkett Smith denied the allegation to TMZ and later laughed off the claim on The Breakfast Club, while Will Smith's rep denied Salaam's 2023 claim and Alfonso Ribeiro has not commented.
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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are back at the center of a controversy after years trying to overcome the bad image left by the 2022 Oscar-star incident: their slap on Chris Rock on the stage as their particular way of defending their wife – although they have been separated since 2016, something that came out in 2023, they are still legally married. Now the American actress has been sued, for three million dollars, by a friend of the actor, …

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Page Six broke the news in on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
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