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 movie star. In 2018 ad-lib prince Quavo was outdoors the Encore Lodge & 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 putting him within the face.
As anticipated the valet driver sued after the assault and has been looking for compensation since 2018.
In line with KLAS, after looking for $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 staff known as his try at a “hip-hop lotto ticket.”
“They’re looking for an enormous 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 believe 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 wished to hurt, injure or harm 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 barely as a result of we will’t return in time,” Hengstler advised the court docket, earlier than proclaiming the assault “essentially modified” his Mr. Henry. “We are able to’t have made Mr. Marshall act with kindness as a substitute… It’s not a lottery.”
Regardless of Quavo defending his character in court docket and claiming to be a “nice function mannequin, for the youngsters” issues didn’t finish in his favor. In the long run, the court docket 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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