Former Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo associate Anthony Zappin, whose behavior during his divorce case earned him tabloid headlines and sanctions from a New York judge, has now lobbed defamation claims against the New York Post and New York Daily News.
It’s been a tumultuous couple of years for Zappin, whose conduct while representing himself in the divorce put him in the public spotlight last year. On top of the divorce and a related child custody fight, Zappin’s mother, Leigh Anne Zappin, pleaded guilty in 2014 to embezzling more than $30,000 from a food bank in West Virginia.
