You could smell a lawsuit comin’ as soon as X17 started spreading the word that Tony Parker cheated on “Desperate Housewives” wife Eva Longoria with a French model.

Yep, Tony Parker is suing X17 over their claims that he had an affair with Alexandra Paressant. Tony Parker says that X17 posted “false and defamatory” stories and he’s seeking $40 million in damages.

Parker said, “This is false. It never happened. And X17 had to know that the story was false, or, at the very least, it had to have entertained serious doubts about the credibility of its supposed source.”

Alexandra Paressant allegedly broke the rumored affair to the website, but X17 never contacted Tony Parker or Eva Longoria prior to running the stories, nor did X17 agree to retract the stories after Parker’s peeps told the gossip site the claims were false.