Plaintiff failed to establish that the doctrine of equitable estoppel bars defendants from asserting a statute of limitations defense to his time-barred defamation claims. He contends that defendants' fraud and misrepresentations prevented him from discovering defendants' identity — not that he "was lulled into inaction by defendant[s] in order to allow the statute of limitations to lapse" (East Midtown Plaza Hous. Co. v City of New York,
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