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Well, it’s been a turbulent few days for John Galliano, what with being arrested, accused of being a racist, getting suspended from Christian Dior and generally having his name dragged through the mud. But this lady’s not taking it sitting down — the designer has filed a defamation claim against the couple he allegedly attacked.

Galliano’s lawyer, Stephanie Zerbib, tells WWD that the pint-sized provocateur trotted down to the Paris police Friday at midnight with three witness statements that he never made any anti-Semitic remarks. Among the witnesses is Galliano’s chauffeur who was present at the scene of the incident.

Zerbib attests that Galliano is “shocked” after getting suspended by Dior, stating:

“He is not guilty and is not embroiled in a court case or anything. He feels it is a decision that has been made without verification of the facts and based on one side of the story and he is very shocked about that.”

French daily, Le Figaro, attained a copy of the police report, which names the victims as Geraldine Bloch, 35, and Philippe Virgiti, 41. Based on a translation by The Huffington Post, Galliano allegedly yelled ”Dirty Jewish face, you should be dead!” to Bloch and “Fucking Asian bastard, I will kill you!” to Virgiti. And then there was some…hair pulling. Galliano was either drunk or on the rag, but it didn’t stop there:

“‘Shut your mouth, dirty bitch. I cannot tolerate your voice,’ Galliano yelled. The woman in question [Bloch], who works at The Institut du Monde Arabe, didn’t leave. ‘You are so ugly I cannot even look at you,’ continued the designer. He added, ‘You have low-end boots, disgusting thighs. You don’t have hair, your eyebrows are ugly, you’re disgusting, you’re nothing but a bitch.’ And he finished his diatribe with, ‘I am the designer John Galliano.’ He told the woman’s companion [Virgiti], ‘I will kill you.’”

Oh, shit, he got to the shoes!  Speaking with Europe1 on Friday, Bloch claimed she was just sitting there minding her own biz when a “bizarre guy” sat down next to her, “ordered a mojito” and then started calling her a bitch. She had no idea who he was so the people around her had to tell her ”That’s a star, that’s John Galliano.”

This entire incident sounds kind of amazing. Imagine John Galliano drunkenly plunking down next to you in a café and then just reading into you for no particular reason. Who’d call the police? — i’d start taking pictures. But then again, I actually know who John Galliano is…because I don’t live under a dirty bitch bridge.

And this just in:

So much for those witness statements…yikes.

Link Love: The Huffington Post