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Steelers owner Robert Citrone sues to retain exclusive distribution rights to paternity scandal

BY: @entertainment_reporter12 HOURS AGO

FIG. 01 Robert Citrone gestures emphatically at stacks of embargo-stamped legal briefs from a courtroom podium in Pittsburgh as a security guard holds an oversized roll of packaging tape nearby.

The billionaire hedge fund manager is asking a Pennsylvania judge to enforce a strict media embargo on his alleged baby mama to prevent unsanctioned leaks ahead of the bitter court battle's official rollout.

In a move that sources close to the production say is standard for a high-net-worth franchise, Citrone is attempting to block his former partner from dropping unauthorized behind-the-scenes content on social media. The unsanctioned posts threaten to cannibalize the carefully coordinated Q4 rollout of what industry tracking currently projects to be a highly lucrative, multi-platform media circus.

Legal filings submitted to a Pennsylvania judge late Tuesday indicate that Citrone’s camp views the woman's social media presence as a direct breach of tacit pre-release non-disclosure agreements, arguing that her rogue Instagram strategy is spoiling the narrative arc of the impending litigation.

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Steelers Co-Owner Robert Citrone Wants To Stop Alleged Baby Mama From Posting About Him

Billionaire hedge fund manager and Pittsburgh Steelers co-owner Robert Citrone is asking a Pennsylvania judge for an emergency order to block his alleged baby mama from blabbing to the press after he says she took their bitter court battle to…

We are simply asking the court to respect the traditional pre-release window. Allowing an alleged co-creator to dump unsanctioned content directly to consumers completely undercuts our coordinated PR strategy and hurts the overall buzz for the eventual settlement.

Marty Glickman, Head of Unscripted Litigation Strategies at WME

Insiders note that the alleged baby mama, currently acting as a rogue showrunner on the nine-month co-production, has bypassed traditional press junkets entirely. Reps for the woman declined to comment, though a source familiar with her strategy confirmed she is actively fielding competitive first-look offers from TMZ and Page Six to monetize the intellectual property.

If the Pennsylvania judge denies the injunction, insiders warn the billionaire may be forced to pivot his defensive strategy. At press time, Citrone’s team was reportedly attempting to package the inevitable eighteen years of child support payments into a multi-year overall deal with built-in non-disparagement escalators.