Plaintiff Matt Kalil ("Matt"), a former professional football player, and defendant Haley Kalil ("Haley"), a popular social-media content creator, used to be married….
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Plaintiff → use → ?
As of January 6, 2026, Haley had 15.9 million TikTok followers, 9.3 million Instagram followers, 8.07 million YouTube subscribers, 1.6 million Snapchat followers, and 1.3 million Threads followers.
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Haley → have → followers
Following her rise to fame, Haley hosted the pre-Met Gala red carpet for E! News and secured similar gigs at the Tony and Academy Awards; collaborated with stars such as the Jonas Brothers, Courtney Cox, and Ed Sheeran; was nominated for a "Streamy Award" for a sketch featuring actor Jared Leto; made Time Magazine's list of Top 100 Creators 2025; and spoke at the 2025 Creator Marketing Summit.
In November 2025, fellow social-media content creator Marlon Lundgren Garcia collaborated with Haley on a livestream on the Twitch platform ("the livestream").
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Garcia → follow → platform
At the time this lawsuit was filed, Garcia had 1.5 million Twitch followers, 3.7 million Instagram followers, 4.6 million TikTok followers, and 766,000 YouTube subscribers.
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Garcia → file → followers
Haley joined Garcia in person in Minnesota, as part of Garcia's "Mar-Athon" challenge to visit all 50 states in 28 days.
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Haley → join → days
The livestream was uploaded to YouTube and memorialized in a video titled "I Opened Up To Haylee Baylee."
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I → upload → Baylee
During the livestream, Garcia and Haley sat across from one another at a small table in Garcia's recreational vehicle, and the two discussed, among other things, Haley's marriage and divorce.
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two → sit → marriage
Without using Matt's name, Haley said that she and her (only) ex-husband are "still friends," that he is the "greatest guy in the world," and that he is "doing good" and is remarried with a baby.
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he → use → baby
Although Haley and Matt had been "best friends," Haley explained, he wanted kids, and she was not ready.
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she → explain → kids
She noted that the two had "a couple other issues" that led to the decision to end their marriage.
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that → note → marriage
After Garcia asked Haley a few more questions about her marriage and its dissolution, Haley typed a private message to Garcia into her phone—ostensibly to put the reasons for her divorce "into perspective."
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Haley → ask → perspective
As she typed, Haley remarked that Garcia's face was "going to be hilarious" when he read the message.
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he → type → message
After reading the private message, Garcia thrice repeated "shut the fuck up."
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Garcia → read → fuck
Haley, nodding and smiling, said that she was being serious and that she tried "it all ….
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she → nod → it
Haley joked that her "life is a comedy and it writes itself," and confirmed that the issue described in the private message was "the biggest factor" in the divorce.
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issue → joke → divorce
As Garcia and Haley continued to talk, it quickly became obvious that Haley was referring to the size of Matt's penis.
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Haley → continue → penis
"[H]e's like 0.01 percent of the population, okay," Haley said, adding that "[w]e tried everything … you're going to be in tears type of shit."
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you → say → shit
Garcia responded: "That's like one of the craziest stories I've heard."
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I → respond → stories
Haley characterized the experience as involving "trauma I can't put on the Internet," but said that it was "just bad luck."
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it → characterize → Internet
Again, Haley insisted that her ex-husband is "such a good person" and "a really good guy."
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husband → insist → ?
Later, as Garcia typed a private question for Haley, they both assured their livestream audience that the secrets they were discussing (which at this point weren't too secret) were "nothing crazy"—but Haley sheepishly noted the irony that they were saying so "as we giggle and type into a phone."
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we → type → phone
In response to the new private message, Haley acknowledged that a certain aspect of Matt's penis was "[t]otally fine" and "like, average," but she then said (moving her hands along a horizontal plane) that "he was just … like two [C]oke cans stacked on top each other.
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he → acknowledge → other
Haley typed a final private message for Garcia, who remarked "[o]h my God," before Haley said that it was "like a funny joke to us now … you just have to laugh at it."
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you → type → it
After a bit more conversation, the segment wrapped up with Haley once more commending Matt, whom she credited with inspiring her "to be a way better person."
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she → wrap → her
"After I got divorced," Haley explained, she thought "[d]amn, I'm going to be like him.
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I → divorce → him
Meanwhile, comments from live viewers poured in, mostly about the thinly veiled topic of the private messages.
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comments → pour → messages
Media reaction soon followed.
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reaction → follow → ?
Headlines included "Haley Kalil Says NFL Husband's Size Sparked Divorce, 'Two Coke Cans'" and "Influencer Haley Baylee insists she 'cares deeply' about ex Matt Kalil's privacy despite wild penis confession."
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she → include → confession
Some media reports focused more on Matt, such as reports that "Ex-NFL Star Matt Kalil's 'Size' was Known Among Players" and that Matt got a "$300k offer from adult site after influencer ex admits their marriage ended due to his penis size."
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marriage → focus → size
Matt and his current wife had to bear the brunt of offensive direct messages and comments on their social-media accounts.
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Matt → have → accounts
Haley conducted a follow-up interview with the publication Page Six, in which she remarked that it was "unfortunate that only one fragment [of the livestream was] being amplified, because it doesn't capture the full story of how meaningful things were to me."
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things → conduct → me
The court rejected Matt's disclosure of private facts claim:
Under Minnesota law, "[p]ublication of private facts is an invasion of privacy when one gives publicity to a matter concerning the private life of another if the matter publicized is of a kind that (a) would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and (b) is not of legitimate concern to the public."
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matter → reject → public
Without question, Matt has plausibly alleged that Haley's comments about his penis were publicized, were about a matter concerning Matt's private life, and would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.
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comments → allege → person
The only question is whether the facts disclosed by Haley were of legitimate public concern.
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facts → disclose → concern
To be more specific, the question is whether those facts were of legitimate public concern, as the media attention given to the facts clearly demonstrates that they were of public concern.
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they → give → concern
The parties agree that determining whether a matter is of legitimate public concern is a question of law for the Court…
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matter → agree → Court
It is clear that matters of legitimate public concern are not limited to traditional "news" items—that is, to items that would typically appear on the front page of a newspaper or lead the evening news on television.
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that → limit → television
E.g., Carlisle v. Fawcett Publ'ns, Inc. (Cal. Ct. App. 1962) ("[T]here is a public interest which attaches to people who, by their accomplishments, mode of living, professional standing or calling, create a legitimate and widespread attention to their activities.").
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who → attach → activities
One of the most famous works of history—Suetonius's The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, written in 121—is a notoriously gossipy collection of biographies of 12 leaders of ancient Rome that includes many details about their sex lives.
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that → write → lives
Then as now, a celebrity "relinquishe[s] a part of his right of privacy to the extent that the public has a legitimate interest in his doings, affairs, or character.
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public → relinquishe[ → doings
…and 30 more, not listed.
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