Ellen DeGeneres Seeks To Strike Automotive Crash Lawsuit

Ellen DeGeneres seems to be pushing again exhausting in opposition to something that might disrupt her new life within the U.Ok.

The previous “Ellen DeGeneres Present” host, who relocated abroad in 2024 together with her spouse, Portia de Rossi, is as soon as once more coping with her negligence lawsuit. 

The case, initially filed in September 2025, just lately took a brand new flip after the plaintiff requested a jury trial. In response, DeGeneres is difficult the validity of how the authorized papers had been served.

In a court docket submitting dated January 21 on the Superior Court docket of California, County of Los Angeles, DeGeneres’ authorized workforce requested the court docket to invalidate the service of summons within the case.

In line with the submitting, her attorneys moved to strike the service after a number of makes an attempt had been allegedly made to ship authorized paperwork to DeGeneres on January 5, 6, and seven.

The protection argued that the service was improper as a result of the paperwork had been delivered to her enterprise administration agency, NKSFB, LLC, somewhat than her private residence, PEOPLE Journal stories.

The movement additional said that on December 23, 2025, paperwork was left on the reception desk of a division of NKSFB, Neuman + Associates. Nonetheless, the agency’s associate and founder, Harley Neuman, clarified in a sworn declaration that the workplace is neither DeGeneres’ ordinary residence nor her common office.

Neuman added that DeGeneres was not current on the day the paperwork had been dropped off and that nobody on the agency was knowledgeable of the contents. He additionally said there was no signed acknowledgment confirming receipt.

“There was no purpose to imagine Ms. DeGeneres could be there in any respect, and particularly not on these two random days in January,” the declaration learn. 

DeGeneres’ newest transfer comes weeks after the plaintiff had requested a jury trial that may most probably contain the comic’s presence in America, regardless of her dwelling overseas. 

Per The Blast, the plaintiff’s December 15 request additionally indicated that mediation happened on December 9. Nonetheless, DeGeneres had but to be formally served, resulting from her residing abroad.

Court docket officers famous that service shall be carried out below the Hague Conference at her U.Ok. tackle.

Whereas the case unfolds, the incident happened again in October 2023 on a busy Santa Barbara street.

As The Blast beforehand reported, the driving force, who is alleged to have been driving a Tesla, accused the comic of failing to obey a cease signal and collided together with her.

In line with the driving force, she approached an intersection marked with a number of visitors indicators and got here to a whole cease, even taking additional care to test for oncoming autos.

Nonetheless, as she started to proceed, DeGeneres’ automobile allegedly struck hers head-on, inflicting accidents. The plaintiff then sued the previous speak present host for negligence, claiming DeGeneres disregarded her personal cease signal.

Amid her ongoing authorized troubles, DeGeneres additionally weighed in on current occasions in Minneapolis.

Following the deadly taking pictures of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent earlier this month, the previous present host shared her response on Instagram.

“I am so unhappy, and so indignant, and so fearful,” she wrote on her Instagram, earlier than reposting a press release from Good’s spouse, Becca Good, in keeping with The Blast.

Whereas her feedback sparked combined reactions on-line from critics who thought she was being hypocritical, given she didn’t react to Charlie Kirk’s loss of life, DeGeneres didn’t again down.