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If you are a public figure, or potentially a limited-purpose public figure, you should find an experienced defamation attorney and schedule a consult before pursuing a defamation claim.

(1) a public official; (2) an individual who "achieve [s] such pervasive fame or notoriety that he becomes a public figure for all purposes and in all contexts," referred to as a general-purpose ...

That is one thing that public figures in the US do have in common with their European counterparts. It is not impossible but close to it for a public figure in the US to prove defamation.

Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974). Nor is he that unicorn of defamation law, the "involuntary public figure," a species Gertz described as "exceedingly rare," and some now believe to be extinct….