Wrapping up a loose end: Raphi Stein sued Adina Miles Sash aka “FlatbushGirl” for defamation on March 30, 2026, one week after the “Free Adeena” campaign commenced.
Instead of taking the signal and stopping, Sash’s defamation of Stein only intensified, which tells me that she is some combination of: mentally impaired (psychotic, delusional, grandiose); “protected” by a dirty local justice system from accountability; and/or lying about when she really first heard about the story.
On the Daniel Mael show, Sash said she only found out who Stein was from one of her “followers” after the Living L’Chaim podcast on March 22, 2026.
Now, you could say she knows the truth and is telling the truth thus unafraid, for truth is an absolute defense against defamation. However, she started the campaign on March 23; did she really have the truth? The penalties intensify if you continue to commit the same defamation of which you are accused.
This exact behavior is often what turns a modest defamation dispute into a multi-million dollar disaster. A prominent example of this played out in the federal defamation trials of E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump. After being sued for defamation, the defendant continued to repeat the disputed statements to reporters and on social media. The jury in the second trial took those post-suit repetitions into account, resulting in a staggering $83.3 million verdict—most of it heavily weighted toward punitive and statutory damages specifically to deter the behavior from continuing.
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 