O'Connor alleged on Facebook that Hall
had been providing drugs to the singer, who died last month, for "decades".
Hall filed a $5m
(£3.46m) libel suit against O'Connor on Thursday, for damages to his
reputation.
The comedian
said O'Connor's accusations were "despicable, fabricated lies" and
labelled her a "desperate attention-seeker."
O'Connor claimed
she had reported Hall to the sheriff's department in the Minneapolis suburbs
that is investigating Prince's sudden death.
In one of two
Facebook posts about Hall, the Irish singer advised the comedian to
"expect their call".
"They are
aware you spiked me years ago at Eddie Murphy's house. You best get tidying
your man cave," she wrote.
A lawsuit by his
lawyers filed in a Los Angeles court stated: "O'Connor is now known
perhaps as much for her bizarre, unhinged rants as for her music."
It added the
accusations would have been read by "countless people" on Facebook
and through subsequent news reports.
He has asked for
a jury trial for libel, estimating the damages to his reputation to be
"not less than" $5m.
The complaint
says the full extent of the damages is "not presently known", and
therefore the amount could be amended before or at trial "if deemed
necessary by the court".
In the lawsuit,
Hall said he has had little contact with O'Connor and questioned her knowledge
of Prince's life, noting that she previously admitted a tense relationship with
him.
Investigators
have not yet released a cause of death for Prince.
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