Celebrity lawyer Lisa Bloom held a press conference in Los Angeles on Monday (August 7) to address Usher’s recent flood of lawsuits alleging he had infected multiple people with an STD.
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, all three of Usher’s most recent accusers allegedly had sex with the illustrious R&B singer.
Bloom said they participated in the sexual activity with Usher “because Raymond [Usher] was a revered celebrity in their eyes who they believed could be loved and trusted.”
One of the plaintiffs, 21-year-old Quantasia Sharpton, said Usher picked her out of a crowd during a concert on her 19th birthday and later had sex with her, but she admits she did not test positive for herpes.
Bloom explained all three of her clients, including one man identified as John Doe, have suffered severe emotional distress, depression and anxiety. She alleges Usher failed to inform them he was infected with herpes.
Although the lawsuit reportedly doesn’t specify the amount of damages, the plaintiffs are asking for punitive damages as well as a judge’s order requiring Usher to disclose his alleged herpes diagnosis before any further sexual activity.
Usher is already facing another $20 million lawsuit filed by an anonymous woman who claims he infected her with the virus. The controversy started to unravel after leaked court documents showed Usher had paid a woman $1.1 million after allegedly infecting her with the STD.
Bloom has recently represented celebrities such as Blac Chyna and Kathy Griffin.
Watch the full conference above.
(This article has been updated. The last update was published on August 5, 2017 and can be found below.)
As if things couldn’t get any worse for Usher. Now, two women and a man are reportedly plotting to file a lawsuit against Usher Raymond IV for exposing them with the herpes virus.
Celebrity attorney Lisa Bloom is reportedly filing the suit on Monday (August 7) in California. Subsequently, she plans to hold a news conference in New York City to coincide with the filing. While two of the accusers will remain anonymous (as John and Jane Doe), one of the women will appear at the conference.
Bloom alleges Usher failed to inform all three individuals the R&B mega-star was carrying an STD before having sexual contact with them. They also claim to have had relations with Usher at some point after 2012, around the time he was allegedly diagnosed.
The controversy kicked off in July when leaked court documents showed Usher paid an unidentified woman $1.1 million after infecting her with herpes.
(The original version of the article was published on July 25, 2017 and can be found below.)
The woman who accused Usher of exposing her to an STD and plans to sue the singer for $10 million recently upped her demand to $20 million after she tested positive for herpes on Saturday (July 25), according to TMZ. The unidentified woman, who filed under Jane Doe, said she got tested immediately after learning Usher admitted in court docs he’s carrying the herpes simplex 2 virus.
The woman claimed she had unprotected sex with Usher in a New Orleans hotel room earlier this year. She is now suing Usher Raymond IV for $20 million.
Usher has not addressed any of the allegations publicly.
(The original version of the article was published on July 22, 2017 and can be found below.)
Just when it seems like things couldn’t get any worse for Usher Raymond IV, another woman has come forward claiming the “Burn” R&B singer exposed her to an STD earlier this year. The unidentified woman has filed a $10 million lawsuit for negligence, battery and emotional distress, according to TMZ.
The suit, filed by a Jane Doe, says she and Usher hooked up in her Atlanta home on April 16. She says she performed oral sex on him and they eventually had intercourse, but she says he wore a condom.
In the legal documents obtained by TMZ, she admitted they then had unprotected sex 12 days later in a New Orleans hotel room. While the woman doesn’t claim to have contracted the virus, she’s “concerned” and claims she wouldn’t have had sex with Usher had she known he was infected.
The news comes just a few days after the world was privy to some leaked court documents alleging Usher paid a celebrity stylist $1.1 million after giving her herpes sometime in 2011 or 2012 through unprotected sex. After Doe saw the reports, she evidently took action.
Usher’s current wife, Grace Miguel, who he married in 2015, posted an Instagram photo of them together as recently as five days ago.
Usher’s ex-wife Tameka Foster also chimed in on Instagram earlier this week and had a stern warning for anyone trying to talk to her about her ex-husband’s personal problems.
“Do not come on my page discussing rumors or adult people that have NOTHING to do with me,” Foster captioned the photo. “I have been divorced 8 years… Some issues are not my business… ex husbands, ex friends, bitch-maids, snakes, hoes, characters, etc. Not my circus, not my clowns … I’m good and my health (Everywhere is great well my right knee hurts and I need reading glasses but otherwise I’m awesome and enjoying the sun. Miss me with other grown folks crazy gossip.. Not my business at all. I’m living my bestest life. Always. Miss me with the bullshit.”
For now, Usher has remained silent.
hahahaha at the “silence is consent” shirt
Gotta Let it Burn!!!!
He got it bad.
She said she wouldn’t have had sex if she knew he was infected. There are so many issues with that. Smarten up. Practice safe sex and more importantly, both parties should go for a check up first.
Don’t they know AIDS and HIV is real. That’s why the rate is so high in the Black community. No one is taking precautions and practicing safe sex .
This^^^^^^^^^^^
How you know the girl isnt white….he likes other races.
He’s talking about Usher you fucking idiot, smh.
“…claiming the “Burn” R&B singer…”
I see what y’all did there DX! Clever?
Is this guys shirt for real? “Silence is consent”? If white millennials find out about this shit, they’d have a field day. Let’s dead Usher career after this. If you can’t stay strapped up, and you’re a has-been celebrity, you deserve the consequences.
It might also mean that if you keep quiet about certain things, them you’re allowing it and/or supporting it. Say for example, watching a guy hit a female and not doing anything about it. BUT, it could be hhdx trying to be hilarious about the situation by posting this pic of him rocking the shirt.
What about watching a female hit a guy and doing nothing about it?
Sigh. Fine. We’ll switch up the genders so my point can go across as well.
First of all, if this ex would not have given a damn she would have ignored and deleted the post from her page, very easy to do and to put a block. but look at all the time she spent on writing she does not care, yeah right!
Ush-a still slangin them herps i see.
People need to realize that women who are having unprotected sex with celebrities are doing this to try and get pregnant so they could have a nice monthly check. NBA players are the best gamble because 20 years down the line, the son may have the right genes to also become a baller and buy their mama a few houses and cars.
Herpes is incurable and means a woman will have extremely painful flare ups and anyone she has sex or oral sex etc with will catch it unless condoms, femidoms, dental dams etc are used. It’s one of the worst STDs for a woman and also I think it effects fertility and causes feeling very sick when flare-ups happen, which will happen regularly for the rest of her entire life. Very serious.
“While the woman doesn’t claim to have contracted the virus” – so why the fuck does she deserve 10 million? That’s like trying to sue for child support when you don’t have any kids.
sue for 10…settle for 2. thats how extortion works.
The 25th of July is today, Tuesday
Is she legit or just being a “sore’ loser?
Shiiiiiiiit….. I’ll take herpes for 20 mil
Only way Usher can get some pussy now is by finding a woman who has never used the internet
1/3 of African American men & 1/2 of African American women already have it so…..
More white Americans are now dying than being born in a third of U.S. states, according to a study released Tuesday, which shows white deaths outpacing births in a record 17 states stretching from California to Maine.
The study, by the University of New Hampshire, found natural decreases in the white population across 17 states in 2014, including Florida, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, which together comprise 38% of the U.S. population. That’s a big shift from 2004 when only four states had more white deaths than births. The declines, exacerbated by the Great Recession, are largely driven by an aging white population, fewer women of childbearing age, and lower fertility rates overall, according to researchers.
If you actualy knew how to do research actualy the reason why white people arent popping babies out left and right without any consequence like black and hispanic people they realize theres more disease today than ever so why risk it and if not that its the fact the dollar dont buy what it used to buy and white people are only having 1 kid or 2 kids vs black/hispanic people having 4+ regularly because their too fucking stupid to understand the cost of raising a child or using birth control or condoms which AGAIN is the leading reason black people are more likely to have HIV and another reason white people are limiting breeding is because this world is FUCKED and they dont want to raise children in a moral less world again something most black/hispanic dont give a fuck about so there ya go mr philosopher
I love that your retort to research is full of personal feelings. As if your personal views on life are based on facts.
No its actual fact its called research from both sides not just a 1 sided study from some fresh out college grad whos nuts have barely even dropped yet
fact is u becoming extinct….while all the other races are doing what God told em to,#fruitfull
Good for them and enjoy a world much like the dark ages too always wondered if we would have a 2nd great plague thanks for the confirmation cause once everyones fuckin broke and everywheres overcrowded like china you can enjoy watching your children die and by your logic at least less of them will be white so a win in my book lol
you maddd son. why you mad?
She sure she got it from Usher? haha hoes tryna cash out these days
Wrap your shit, homie.
A man too? Da fuck? Not only is usher a sick diseased dick motherfucker, he’s a f aggot too.
a man? damn that’s fucked up i guess anything goes for Usher
he shoulda listened to Cassidy’s advise and “stroke ’em condom style” lol
My whole family basically has herpes and it isn’t a big deal. I wish that people would stop overreacting to it.
herpes is a big deal…lol
they saw the first woman get that 1.1 mil. now they out there like hyenas
Wait is usher gay?
The woman claimed she had unprotected sex with Usher in a New Orleans hotel room earlier this year.
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Again, I guess those safe sex lessons don’t apply to these dumbasses looking for a come up. You didn’t use any protection, and this is somebody else fault you got caught up? This wasn’t your man….just some random person you fucked who happens to be famous. SMH.
whos the dude
his ex-boyfriend
What about the man? Other than the title and the second sentence, the article says nothing about him.
it’s sad he has to pull these kinda stunts to get attention. “Yeah” with Ludacris and Lil Jon was a long ass time ago dude ain’t had a hit since.. he a washed up has been
Gotta love fake new!!!
usher a homo…the man was chris brown.
She said her health is very important to her?! ?? … then but down the burger before you get the diabetes. Gthoh
Lmao!
Usher ain’t smash that “big bone” woman. From chilli to that? C’mon son “Ed lover’s Voice”
I was thinking the same damn thing
Dawg, I know right. These kids really be believing Usher hitting that. Anyone with half a mind will look at her and look at Usher and realize how much b/s all this really is. Poor Usher though, having to go through all this in the public eye. Gotta let it burn tho…
Lmaooo the size of that bitch. I’m surprised he actually found the pussy in the first place
won’t be surprised if they are making this shit up as some kind of a retaliation
that big bitch look nasty
God DAMN does this fat fucking waste of skin think she fooling anyone?? Ain’t no way Usher touched that hippo human hybrid, bitch should stop worrying about making false claims and start worrying about why her life expectancy is 36
Ony ways she can prove anything are witnesses to their romp, a cup of his semen that he injected into her or a description of his snake and exact locations of freckles or scars.
no way usher gave that bitch herpes look at the size of her he’dh ave to find the hole first
big l’s
Dang Usher smashed Monique from the Parkers lmao..R Kelly laughing at this one…ha ha
when you got 60k people at your concert and can bang any teenager there but you pick an ugly fatty..smh
she so fat Usher had to roll her in flour to find a wet spot
not technically genital herpes? contact was too far away.
unless Usher got one long ass dick yo
btw pay attention to lawyer lady’s facial features (esp. the nose) and her last name. she’s not a christian or a mus1im.
this reada on her wikipedia page: “She and her mother are Jevvish.” also “Bloom identifies as Jevvish”.
Anyone else first take read anonymous as enormous