Logan Paulo is taking legal action against popular YouTuber Cafézilla …claiming that the Internet investigator is purposely spreading lies to tarnish his reputation.
The documents were filed on Thursday… with the WWE Superstar suing Coffeezilla – whose real name is Stephen Findeisen – and his production company for defamation over their deep dive into Paul’s failed CryptoZoo project.
In case you haven’t been following along, Coffeezilla has released several videos addressing the fallout from the blockchain game over the past two years, – calling the whole thing a “scam” – pointing the finger at Paul and claiming that he purposefully tricked his fans into spending their hard cash to so he could pocket it.
Paul claims that despite having access to text exchanges that prove otherwise, Coffeezilla continues to spread false information for influence…using his name to get more clicks and attention on his channel for financial gain.
In fact, Paul notes that Coffeezilla launched a subscription-based Patreon account shortly after his first CryptoZoo-targeted video… and asked his viewers to pay for even more content. Paul believes this shows that Coffeezilla knew how much attention he would get for calling the project a scam… and saw it as a big payday.
Paul explains everything in the process… providing texts that he claims prove he had the best intentions during the development of the project – and outside of the gameplay experience, he claims he only trusted advisors Eddie Ibanez and “King of Crypto” Jake Greenbaum to gather the rest.
In the messages, Paul made it clear that he did not want to compromise the integrity of the game… and envisioned a legitimate and fun experience for users.
When things went wrong and the project didn’t live up to expectations, Paul expressed his frustrations and said he was being scammed in text messages to his team…vowing to hold everyone accountable.
Ultimately, Paul says Ibanez and Greenbaum torpedoed his vision of getting rich… and misled him throughout the development process.
In the documents, Paul says that Coffeezilla knew full well that he would not profit from the project — and that, in fact, he lost hundreds of thousands in the process.
He also claims that he already laid out his plan to give users their money back long before Coffeezilla launched its CryptoZoo deep dive… and to date, he says he has returned more than $1 million of his own money for hundreds of NFTs (non-Fungible Token Buyers).
Paul’s intention with the process is to clear his name of the “scammer” stench… and he hopes that going through the justice system will bring that result.
He is seeking unspecified damages.