Tony Parker is suing a celebrity gossip site for $40 m.

According to BBC News, The husband of Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is suing a celebrity gossip website for at least $40m over claims he had an affair.

The NBA star's camp filed a $40 million defamation lawsuit Wednesday against X17online, which was the first media outlet to run with French model Alexandra Paressant's claim that she and Parker had an affair two months after his marriage to Eva Longoria.

X17 published alleged copies of what 26-year-old said were text messages she and Parker exchanged and other documents that supported her story.

"Celebrities are easy targets-both for those who would seek their own fame and fortune by fabricating salacious stories about them, no matter how damaging or hurtful, and for those who make their living publishing these false and defamatory lies, no matter how patently baseless," says the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

X17's false reports have caused Parker "substantial harm...in complete disregard for the truth and of even a semblance of journalistic integrity," said attorney Stanton "Larry" Stein.

After the story developed last week, Parker and Longoria released statements to People Magazine reaffirming their commitment to each other, and Parker has since said that he has never even met Paressant, much less had an affair with her.

"I love my wife. She's the best thing in my life, and I have never been happier," Mr Parker said. "Tony has been nothing short of the perfect husband," Longoria added.