Atlanta rapper Quavo was ordered to pay $680k to a former Las Vegas resort worker who claims the rapper assaulted him in 2018.
Las Vegas is the town of sin that additionally firmly believes in accountability regardless of your celeb. In 2018 ad-lib prince Quavo was outdoors the Encore Resort & On line casino in Vegas when he allegedly assaulted a staffer on website. Video footage captured Quavo in a heated argument with a Valet earlier than placing him within the face.
As anticipated the valet driver sued after the assault and has been in search of compensation since 2018.
In line with KLAS, after in search of $680k the valet driver Antonio Henry will obtain $680k. Henry alleged he suffered a decrease again harm, emotional abuse, and a concussion which Quavo’s authorized workforce known as his try at a “hip-hop lotto ticket.”
“They’re in search of a large award of cash,” Quavo’s lawyer, William Briggs II, stated throughout his closing assertion . “I don’t learn about you, however to me, $800,000 is some huge cash. I feel it’s some huge cash to lots of people. And Mr. Henry can’t set up that he was injured by that single slap… Had my shopper needed to hurt, injure or damage Mr. Henry, he would have punched him, not slapped him.”
Joel Hengstler, who represented Henry opposed the “lotto ticket” slander and demanded Quavo compensate his shopper expeditiously.
“The truth that that is about cash is simply as a result of we will’t return in time,” Hengstler advised the courtroom, earlier than proclaiming the assault “basically modified” his Mr. Henry. “We will’t have made Mr. Marshall act with kindness as a substitute… It’s not a lottery.”
Regardless of Quavo defending his character in courtroom and claiming to be a “nice function mannequin, for the children” issues didn’t finish in his favor. Ultimately, the courtroom agreed with Hengstler, and Quavo was ordered to pay the quantity in full final Wednesday.
Each events can lastly put the authorized woe behind them and hopefully can keep away from bodily confrontations sooner or later.
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