After an old video of XXXTENTACION appearing to hit a woman emerged online last month, the alleged victim in the clip said she waited so long to speak out because she was “terrified” for her life.
Now, the “Look At Me!” rapper is suing the woman for fraud and defamation, according to TMZ. In a new lawsuit, X claims the woman is lying about her initial statement and trying to extort him for $300,000.
X’s manager allegedly reached out to the woman shortly after she posted the video but her grandparents called back to ask what X would do to “make everything good.”
The woman’s grandparents reportedly said X threw a BB gun at the woman’s face prior to the slap seen in the clip. In the court doc, the Broward County, Florida native says she was threatening to hold a news conference about his frequent violence toward women.
X is currently facing multiple felony charges stemming from a 2016 domestic violence case that includes kidnapping and witness tampering.
Despite his polarizing public persona, X’s music continues to do well. His most recent project, ?, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, marking his first chart-topping album.
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Yeah you’re really gonna win that case with charges like that pending.. dude is retarded it shows through in his music
Pending charges that have nothing to do with a seperate case. This isn’t the court of public opinion….it’s the court of law….where things have to be proved beyond doubt….
Well thank you Uncle Sam but that girl getting sued can have a jury trial if she wants. And those charges will certainly be admitted into evidence. No jury is gonna give him shit if he’s been accused of domestic assault. Conviction or not, the accusation alone will turn a jury against him.
so the judge is gonna act without stranded legal evidence??
Proving something beyond a reasonable doubt is only the standard in criminal trials. In a civil trial the standard is ‘preponderance of the evidence’, so you only have to prove that it’s more likely something did happen than didn’t. Since he’s the one suing her for defamation, he has to prove that she published something untrue about him that would be harmful to his reputation in the community among reasonable people. Her best defense would be to say that what she said about him was true, which wouldn’t be that hard to prove considering there’s a video of him hitting her.
That was supposed to be in reply to RealTalk
He got to sue because he want be around his 15 mins of shame is almost up