Alec Baldwin pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of harassment earlier this year after getting into a parking space dispute with a fellow New Yorker a year ago. But that, it turns out, was not the end to this saga: Baldwin has now filed a lawsuit claiming he has been defamed by his accuser.

Baldwin was arrested on November 2nd, 2018 outside his Greenwich Village home after he allegedly pushed a man who took a parking space that one of Baldwin’s relatives was holding for the actor. The 49-year-old man in the dispute, Wojciech Cieszkowski, went to a hospital complaining of jaw pain. In his lawsuit, Baldwin says that Cieszkowski lied when he claimed Baldwin punched him in the face.

“When two New Yorkers get into an argument over a parking space, typically what happens is they exchange a few sharp words and then move on with their lives,” states Baldwin’s suit, which was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday. “But that is not what happened here. Cieszkowski has instead made up a false story about the encounter and refused to move on unless Baldwin succumbs to his extortion demands.”

Baldwin says in the lawsuit that he was upset at the time because Cieszkowski came dangerously close to his wife and child on the curb. “Baldwin approached Cieszkowski to discuss what had just occurred,” the suit says. “Rather than take a moment to reflect on his own actions — or to simply apologize — Cieszkowski responded to Baldwin’s concern for his family’s safety with self-righteous anger, and a verbal exchange ensued.”

Baldwin admits that he "lightly pushed" Cieszkowski, but maintains that he never punched him; Baldwin told the arresting officer at the time, “He’s an asshole. He stole my spot. I did push him.” The lawsuit states that Cieszkowski told cops that ‘Mr. Baldwin shoved him hard in the chest with both hands’” and also “struck [him] in the left jaw with his right hand."

“Hospital records and video surveillance footage prove that it was a lie,” the lawsuit adds. The footage, which has yet to be released to the public, was also brought up by one of Baldwin's attorneys last year during the trial: "There is incontrovertible video evidence that has been turned over to the district attorney’s office that proves beyond all doubt that Mr. Baldwin never punched anyone," the attorney said.

Baldwin's attorney Luke Nikas told the Post that they will present the video evidence in court this time. We've contacted Nikas for more information about the lawsuit and video.

Cieszkowski’s attorney also released a statement comparing Baldwin to Trump ("Like the man he plays on television, Alec Baldwin is an entitled celebrity with a long history of verbally and physically mistreating others he sees as beneath him"), and casting doubt on the video evidence: “I think we really view this as a desperate and somewhat curious bullying tactic by Mr. Baldwin," attorney Doug Lieb said. “According to him, there is video that depicts the physical contact that he made with Mr. Cieszkowski. Alec Baldwin has that video and Mr. Cieszkowski doesn’t. The fact that the public hasn’t seen it yet really tells us all we need to know about who is telling the truth. If Alec Baldwin wanted this video to be seen, we would have seen it — by which I mean we the television-viewing world. [The lawsuit is] really frivolous, and we look forward to a trial before a jury of Mr. Cieszkowski’s peers.”