Rimes also filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that Kimberly Smiley and her daughter Lexi Smiley secretly recorded a telephone conversation. The lawsuit claims that the recorded was taken "to spitefully ensure that out-of-context excerpts of that recording would be disseminated to the public on various websites" and to portray Rimes "in an egregiously false and negative light and cause her emotional distress."
According to TMZ, Rimes alleges Kimberly Smiley and Lexi Smiley are supporters of Brandi Glanville, Eddie Cibrian's ex, and engaged in a campaign to trash her when she hooked up the with Eddie. They also allegedly made statements that LeAnn was "crazy and delusional."
Kimberly Smiley denied she posted the recording, saying she shared it with online acquaintances, one of whom played it for Cibrian's ex-wife, Brandi Glanville. "The whole thing is just ridiculous," she said according to The Associated Press. "It's just a celebrity who's too full of herself."
It is illegal in California for a party to record a phone call without the other person's knowledge. The alleged phone call took place in March. Rimes is seeking more than $25,000 in damages.
Rimes has taken a lot of criticism for her super-skinny form, but she's also engaged in Twitter wars with critics over her affair with Eddie Cibrian. In 2009, Usmagazine.com revealed footage of Rimes, who was at the time married to Dean Sheremet, and Cibrian, married to Brandi Glanville, with whom he has two sons, kissing in a restaurant. Rimes
Within months, both marriages ended, and Rimes and Cibrian started dating openly. They married last year.
