Yes, and that just makes current and future lawsuits go faster. When the percent of the relevant facts have already been established by it a previous court, doesn't take too long to get to the end stage, which is deciding damages for the new statements.
Will at some point she become too famous and then is there some weird shift in how libel and slander work in the U.S.? Just thinking about how the politicians are always slinging mud, but there seems to be a different standard.