I am not making a case for how you can sue someone for libel when they don't name you. My point is She did not STATE HIS NAME as a basis to SELL her BOOK. The intention of her book is NOT to defame the character of ANYONE. I could write the very same book about MY EX and social media would not have the discussion…

Generally, a statement has to be provable as true or false before it can be libelous. Opinions are out of the running for libel, so you're free to describe a bad actor as "a loser" or the local mayor as "clueless." Opinions are protected under the opinion privilege, but that has its own limitations. If the opinion is…

If she's JUST trying to sell her book, she would have specifically stated his NAME.