When Oprah Winfrey’s South African girls school endured an abuse scandal in 2007, Oprah Winfrey fired the headmaster Lerato Nomvuyo Mzamane, telling parents that she had “lost confidence” in her capability to oversee the school.

Now Mzamane is suing Winfrey and her production company Harpo for defamation in a trial set to begin on March 29 in Philadelphia, CNN reported. Mzamane claims that she did not know about the abuse, which occurred in the dormitory–a dorm mother has been charged with assaulting and abusing students–and that Winfrey never gave her an opportunity to explain.

“Instead Winfrey elected to forego the option of questioning Plaintiff directly as to her knowledge of the abusive conduct and published statements which arguably created the impression that Plaintiff did in fact have some level of involvement in the Dorm Parents misconduct,” the lawsuit states.

What began as an apparent simple disagreement between the camps of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. over how to handle drug testing for their megafight — tentatively scheduled for March 13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas — has spiraled so out of control that the potential biggest money fight in boxing history was in serious jeopardy on Christmas Day.

Pacquiao, angered by accusations from the Mayweather camp that he uses performance-enhancing drugs, said he would file a defamation lawsuit against Mayweather and Golden Boy Promotions.

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