"While we haven't yet seen the lawsuit, it's sad that someone would fabricate malicious, defamatory, and demonstrably false claims," the singer's publicist says in a statement.

He begins by suggesting that certain defamatory claims - that he is arrogant, or misanthropic, or mad - are untrue.

She filed legal paperwork demanding that Bieber take a paternity test to prove that he was the baby's father, just like an episode of Maury Povich, even though the singer's lawyers immediately called Yeater's claims "malicious, defamatory, and demonstrably false."

The "Never Say Never" singer's camp first denied Yeater's claims on Tuesday, telling Us in a statement: "While we haven't yet seen the lawsuit, it's sad that someone would fabricate, malicious, defamatory and demonstrably false claims.

However, Bieber's reps were quick to respond to Yeater's allegations: "While we haven't yet seen the lawsuit, it's sad that someone would fabricate malicious, defamatory, and demonstrably false claims.

"While we haven't yet seen the lawsuit, it's sad that someone would fabricate malicious, defamatory, and demonstrably false claims," the rep said in a statement to Access Hollywood.

A few years ago, former party chairman Mrs Kósáné Kovács made the defamatory claim that the Vatican, then under the leadership of Pope John Paul, was keen to get its hands on the whole of Europe and bring it under its control.

In order to succeed with a justification defence, the defence would need to prove as substantially true all of the defamatory claims made by Lipstadt against Irving.

Bieber's spokesman Matthew Hiltzik called it "sad" that "someone would fabricate such a malicious, defamatory, and demonstrably false claim.

De Klerk did not significantly address the ANC's demands, but described as defamatory and false the claim that he was conducting a campaign of political murder, and defended the security forces, which, he declared, operated with impartiality.