What if the landlord has disclosed private personal information to the other tenants about me after I moved out, is this slander?

Is the information true? If the information is true then it is not slander, but merely gossip.

What type of information, your social security number, or the fact you owed him rent ?

But if the information is true, it is not slander.

When I lived there I was in a bad relationship and my landlord knew that. Now he is telling everyone about my relationship with my ex.

Again if the info is true its not slander. Even if it was, you would have to show youy were harmed for it to be actionable.

Sounds to me like gossip.

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Originally Posted by jenriv

When I lived there I was in a bad relationship and my landlord knew that. Now he is telling everyone about my relationship with my ex.

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I wrote this some time ago:

"Briefly - Generally in law libel refers to permanent/written statements and slander refers to non-permanent/spoken statements. Defamation (of character) covers both categories.

You must be damaged - and prove damages - in order to recover. The statements (either written or spoken) must be false but presented as though they were true and be beyond offensive, derogatory or insulting. Such statement must rise to a level which actually harms a person’s reputation. In general the person making the statement must either know it isn’t true or make the statement without attempting to verify if it is true.

The defense to defamation is that the information was not presented as the truth (which covers gossip), that the information was never secret (privileged) and was always public."