Kanye West is being sued by an autograph hunter who claimed he was punched by the singer.
Kanye West is being sued
The ‘Stronger’ rapper is the topic of a lawsuit from Justin Poplawski and his spouse Tiffany Marshall, with the person claiming he was “severely injured” by the 46-year-old star throughout an altercation on 13 January, 2022, close to the Soho Warehouse in Los Angeles.
In paperwork obtained by The Blast, Justin descried himself as a “well-respected autograph vendor” who had beforehand obtained Kanye’s signature “with out incident”, however issues have been totally different this time as a result of he claimed the Yeezy designer pledged to “make an instance” of him as he referenced his “f****** divorce” from Kim Kardashian.
The lawsuit states Kanye went on to rant: “Go the f*** [out of] right here earlier than I beat the f*** out of you. I’m going to make a f****** instance of you.”
The person – who careworn he was “lawfully standing on public property” – alleged he was then struck by Kanye a number of occasions, “severely injuring him” and one of many individuals with the rapper demanded he stopped.
The ‘Certain 2’ hitmaker is accused of attempting to “bodily assault, hurt, batter, and injure Poplawski, with the intent of committing such assault, hurt, battery, and harm, when, with out limitation, [Ye] unlawfully and deliberately struck him. Bodily and violently attacked and battered him; and repeatedly struck him whereas he was defenseless and in concern for his security inflicting Plaintiff to maintain damages.”
The lawsuit – which was filed by famous legal professional Gloria Allred – alleged Kanye “engaged in with a acutely aware disregard of the rights and security of [the autograph seeker] and others and was despicable.”
Justin is suing for assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery, negligence, and lack of consortium, whereas his spouse can also be suing for lack of consortium.
It’s unclear how a lot they’re in search of in damages.
Video footage of half the alleged incident, which did not embody any violence, beforehand circulated on-line however police determined to not cost Kanye with a criminal offense on the time.
The Los Angeles Metropolis Lawyer’s Workplace stated: “After a radical and cautious evaluation of all of the proof, our workplace is declining to file based mostly on no affordable probability of conviction.”