Leonardo DiCaprio has filed suit against the owners of a French magazine who reported in their May 13 edition that he's having a child with Rihanna and wants nothing to with the baby.

Gossip Cop reports "The Wolf of Wall Street" star plans to seek the maximum allowed by French law from "Oops" magazine publishers, which comes to 18,000 Euros or about $20,000.

The website also reports one of the magazine's owners, Frederic Truskolaski, has admitted to them that the publication was aware its "scoop" was untrue. Truskolaski has been named as one of the defendants in the suit.

"We didn't know" if Rihanna was pregnant," he said. "We thought she might be. We were not sure, of course."

Still, Truskolaski expressed shock over DiCaprio's course of action, wondering aloud to Gossip Cop, "Why is he doing this?" Truskolaski added he believes this may be the first time an American superstar has sued a French publication.

The two sides are scheduled to face off in a Paris court on June 16. In addition to the charge of making an erroneous claim, the suit also argues that the magazine did not have the legal authority to print information about DiCaprio's personal life as outlined by France's strict right to privacy laws. If found in violation, the magazine could be forced to pay an additional $11,000 in court costs.

"Usually you lose," Truskolaski admitted of what typically derives from such proceedings. "It won't be much."

In a recent Daily Mail interview, Rihanna downplayed all talk of a DiCaprio relationship, telling inquiring reporters, "It sounds to me like you should stay away from the blogs because they will screw you every time."

She later added she is simply too busy for romance and wouldn't find it fair "to be thinking of pulling somebody else into this life."