Azealia Banks on Sunday shared a duplicate of a stop & desist discover despatched to Matty Healy by her authorized workforce, demanding a public apology from The 1975 singer, in addition to a request for a $1 million settlement.
The letter comes after swirling stress between the 2 singers which started earlier this week when Healy reactivated his X (previously Twitter) account. In response to Banks’ tweet saying Charli XCX “was soooo fairly,” Healy wrote that “All the ladies you assault appear to be culturally related, engaging, divisive and NICE folks. I feel this makes you jealous cos you’re so proficient however the whole lot else about you is a failure. Simply rap bro.”
Banks responded to Healy’s insult by writing that he and his fiancée, mannequin Gabbriette, “each appear like you share needles,” to which Healy threatened to “fucking slap you so laborious I’ll get a Guiness world document for the best a rat some bitch calls a wig has ever flown.”
Healy then apologized for the threats in an announcement on-line and deactivated his account.
Banks has a historical past of throwing insults on social media. Healy does as properly, together with many documented cases of racist feedback.
The stop & desist letter, shared by Banks on her X account and dated Saturday Dec. 7 from Wallace J. Collins III in New York Metropolis, notes that its calls for are in response to Healy’s “threats of violence.”
Collins confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday that his workplace despatched the letter to Healy on Saturday night time.
“Your assaults towards my consumer’s skilled popularity, your overt racial epithets and your most up-to-date threats of bodily violence towards my consumer have been well-documented because you revealed them worldwide on-line,” Collins wrote, noting that Banks saved screenshots of the posts Healy has since deleted. He referred to as Healy’s actions “wrongful, dangerous religion and malicious” and mentioned they’ve “significantly broken and can proceed to wreck my consumer.”
The letter continues, “Your removing of the damaging assault posts and your acknowledgement that your response was inappropriate doesn’t undo the injury, however somewhat constitutes proof of an request for forgiveness by you.”
He went on to notice that he had drafted a summons and grievance per Banks’ request, however that “I’ve normally discovered it helpful for all events to attempt to resolve such issues amicably with out the necessity for court docket intervention.”
The word ends with a requirement that Healy instantly stop and desist from making any additional or defamatory statements towards Banks and that he make a immediate and public apology to her. He additionally calls for compensation within the quantity of $1 million for “full settlement of this matter.”
THR reached out to reps for Healy and Banks for additional touch upon the matter.
