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"&lt;img alt=\"0613_bristol_palin_article_steven_hanks\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/06/13/0613-bristol-palin-article-steven-hanks-1.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He told &lt;strong&gt;Bristol Palin&lt;/strong&gt; her mother was \"evil\" and a \"whore\" ... but now the man who verbally accosted &lt;strong&gt;Sarah Palin&lt;/strong&gt;'s daughter in a Hollywood bar last year is suing Bristol for defamation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's all over that infamous encounter at Saddle Ranch on the Sunset Strip back in September ... when &lt;strong&gt;Stephen Hanks&lt;/strong&gt; shouted at Bristol, \"&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2011/09/23/bristol-palin-heckler-saddle-ranch-video-whore-mother-sarah-palin-sunset-strip-reality-tv-show-mechanical-bull/\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your mother's a whore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;\" (&lt;em&gt;clip below -- skip to 1:40&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/S18gsZ37QXY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hanks is pissed because he claims the incident was captured by a reality TV crew that was with Bristol. Hanks says he never signed a waiver ... and was furious when his image started appearing in ads for Bristol's new Lifetime show, \"Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hanks claims he can PROVE Bristol was lying ... because she had already purchased a new home in Alaska two months before their encounter. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hanks says Bristol's statements to the gossip mag hurt his reputation and damaged his career. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hanks is suing Bristol and A&amp;amp;E -- the company behind Lifetime. He's asking for unspecified damages. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Calls to Bristol have not been returned."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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