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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Calling the housing a "brazen and outrageous fraud," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg urged a federal suite on Thursday to dismiss a causa by a New royalty Negro claiming he owns a huge wager in the social networking website.

In a filing with the U.S. District Court in Buffalo, New York, Facebook and Zuckerberg said the causa by Apostle Ceglia is supported on a "doctored lessen and fictitious evidence." They also titled the plaintiff "an inveterate cheat creator whose move extends crossways decades and borders."

Ceglia, a vegetation pellet salesman from Wellsville, New York, has contended that he shrunken in 2003 for 50 proportionality of Zuckerberg's interest in what became Facebook.

Facebook is privately held, but analysts hit said it could be worth $70 billion should it go public. Forbes entrepot in March estimated Zuckerberg's gain worth at $13.5 billion.

Ceglia originally sued last July, locution he had shrunken with Zuckerberg for an 84 proportionality Facebook stake. In an revised complaint Ceglia distinct what he titled emails between himself and Zuckerberg to support his case.

In their response, Facebook and Zuckerberg said they "specifically deny some liability" to Ceglia, and titled the causa "a brazen and outrageous humbug on the court."

They also questioned ground Ceglia waited seven years to sue, locution he had long been "utterly silent" as Facebook "grew into digit of the world's best-known companies."

A attorney representing Ceglia declined immediate comment.

According to published reports, Ceglia pleaded guilty in 1997 to possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms in Texas. In 2009, he was accused of humbug and had his business closed down.

In a separate case, Cameron and President Winklevoss are attractive to the U.S. Supreme Court a suite ruling that upheld their $65 meg cash-and-stock deciding with Facebook.

The twin brothers hit accused Facebook and Zuckerberg of concealing their idea for the website.

The effort between the Winklevoss twins and Zuckerberg was dramatized in the 2010 Oscar-nominated movie "The Social Network".

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in Chicago; Editing by Tim Dobbyn, Phil Berlowitz)

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