Perez Hilton has been summoned to court to face questioning over claims that he made accusing Samantha Ronson of selling gossip about former friend Lindsay Lohan to the press. The DJ filed a defamation lawsuit against Perez in July after he accused her of being responsible for the cocaine found in Lohan’s car following her first arrest for driving under the influence.

In court papers, Sam said, “I am not now and have never been a drug user. I have never handled or touched cocaine. I did not ever place any cocaine at any place at any time.”

Perez is standing on his rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. His lawyer, Bryan J. Freedman, said, “He (Lavandeira) stands by his actions as being legal and proper and believes that the First Amendment protects him.” Freedman also claims Judge Elihu M. Berle’s Wednesday (10Oct07) court order for Hilton’s deposition was just to give the prosecution another chance at trying him for defamation. He added: “The judge at this point found that they (Ronson’s attorneys) didn’t provide any evidence of malice… so the judge was going to give them one more bite of the apple (by allowing the deposition). “If Ms. Ronson is attempting to get some sort of relief in court and to show that Mario Lavandeira had any malice, I think she’s going to a hardware store for milk. It’s just not going to happen.”