French Montana is reportedly being sued for negligence over a capturing incident through the filming of a music video in January that left 10 injured.
Rolling Stone experiences {that a} lawsuit in opposition to the rapper was filed on Monday (March 20) for USD $50,000 by alleged capturing sufferer Carl Leon. Leon was reportedly injured within the capturing, claiming that he suffered “nice bodily damage, ache, psychological anguish, and the lack of the capability for the enjoyment of life”.
The lawsuit additionally named Montana’s Coke Boys Information, The Licking (the restaurant the place the capturing occured), and property proprietor Gayles Plaza as defendants alongside Montana.
“All Defendants did not correctly plan and conduct the music video manufacturing in a secure method. As a substitute, they consciously ignored the intense dangers of hurt to its individuals, together with [Leon],” claims Leon through the lawsuit.
Leon additionally claimed that the music video was initially being filmed at a separate unnamed location, earlier than that spot was compromised after an “altercation and theft” occured, after which Montana and the manufacturing crew moved the filming to The Licking. Neither The Licking nor its property proprietor have commented on the lawsuit.
Leon’s legal professional Josiah Graham stated in an announcement to Rolling Stone: “It was a particularly unlucky state of affairs that led to a number of folks struggling severe accidents. Essentially the most egregious factor is that individuals had been overwhelmed up and robbed at this video shoot and the [production] didn’t shut down. Montana continued the video shoot, moved it throughout the road, and people assailants returned and shot the place up. Issues like that shouldn’t be in a position to go on”.
The lawsuit additionally alleged that upon additional investigation, Montana’s workforce had did not get the required permits to movie the video and guarantee a secure set. Responding to the information of the capturing on January 6, Montana stated in a tweet that he was “celebrating the discharge of [his ‘Coke Boys 6’ mixtape with] associates at a neighborhood restaurant” when the incident occurred.
Final evening, I used to be in Miami celebrating the discharge of my CB6 mixtape w/ associates at a neighborhood restaurant. We sadly had been on the fallacious place, on the fallacious time when an incident passed off that left folks harm. Our ideas & prayers are w/ the victims & households at the moment
— French Montana (@FrencHMonTanA) January 6, 2023
“We sadly had been on the fallacious place, on the fallacious time when an incident passed off that left folks harm. Our ideas [and] prayers are [with] the victims [and] households at the moment,” “We sadly had been on the fallacious place, on the fallacious time when an incident passed off that left folks harm,” he stated.
French Montana’s consultant Ted Anastasiou has since denied his shopper had any duty for the incident. “Carl Leon was by no means invited to the restaurant on the evening of the incident,” stated Anastasiou to Rolling Stone. “His curiosity in litigation is solely to use and profit financially from it, and his re-imagining of his invitation and present statements are merely an egregious revenue play and publicity stunt.”
“Past rejecting Mr. Leon and his counsel’s claims, we implore them to take a very good, lengthy look within the mirror and ask whether or not their family members would respect them for attempting to make a buck by blatantly mendacity,” Anastasiou added.
