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Will Smith Refutes Allegations of Intimate Relationship with Duane Martin

Will Smith has firmly rejected recent allegations suggesting he had an intimate relationship with actor Duane Martin. A representative for Smith, aged 55 and an Oscar recipient, communicated to Us Weekly, stating, “This story is completely fabricated and the claim is unequivocally false.”

Brother Bilaal, who identifies as Smith’s former assistant and a friend for four decades, appeared on the “Unwine with Tasha K” podcast, set to release in full on November 15 at 8 p.m. In a teaser released on November 13, Bilaal alleged witnessing Smith and Martin, now 58, in a sexual act during a search for them before a film recording.

Bilaal described the scene, saying, “I opened the door to Duane’s dressing room and that’s when I see Duane having anal sex with Will. There was a couch and Will was bent over the couch and Duane was standing up killing him, murdering him. It was murder in there.”

Smith and Martin, who first met during Martin’s guest appearance on Smith’s show “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” were both married at the time of the supposed incident. Martin has yet to respond to these allegations. Smith was wed to Jada Pinkett Smith since 1997, while Martin married Tisha Campbell in 1996. Smith and Pinkett Smith separated in 2016, and Martin and Campbell divorced in 2018.

Bilaal further commented on Smith’s marriage, stating, “Jada was the woman that everybody wanted and Will needed that validation to have that type of woman. I am saying to you, [Tasha], that if a woman is used to the size of a baby leg and you come in with a pinkie toe, there’s nothing you gonna do to please her. You can buy her 80 cars, you can get her 80 private jets, [but] if she’s itching for that baby leg, she wants that baby leg.”

Pinkett Smith, sharing two children with Smith, also dismissed the allegations. When approached by TMZ photographers on November 15, she humorously remarked, “We [suing].”

Last month, Pinkett Smith disclosed that she and Smith had privately separated six years prior, sharing details in her memoir “Worthy” and its promotional tour. Speaking on the Today show on October 11, she expressed, “I think, by the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”

Despite living separately, Pinkett Smith and Smith have not pursued divorce. Pinkett Smith explained, “I think just not being ready yet. Still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in partnership, right, and in regards to how do we present that to people, you know? And we hadn’t figured that out.”

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