{"id":101182,"date":"2022-10-19T00:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kanye-west-faces-250m-lawsuit-by-george-floyds-daughter\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T00:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T00:51:04","slug":"kanye-west-faces-250m-lawsuit-by-george-floyds-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kanye-west-faces-250m-lawsuit-by-george-floyds-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West faces $250M lawsuit by George Floyd’s daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mother of George Floyd’s daughter announced they are filing a $250 million lawsuit against Kanye West over his recent statements about Floyd’s death. The rapper, who goes by Ye, erroneously declared on a podcast that Floyd died from fentanyl, not as the result of police brutality.<\/p>\n

“Kanye’s comments are a repugnant attempt to discount George Floyd’s life and to profit from his inhumane death,” attorney Pat D. Dixon III said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the goal with the argument is to “hold Mr. West accountable” for his “flagrant remarks.”<\/p>\n

The lawsuit will go after West’s “business partners” and “associates” as the comments caused “harassment, misappropriation, defamation, and infliction of emotional distress.” Gianna is the sole beneficiary of Floyd’s estate.<\/p>\n

“The interests of the child are priority. George Floyd’s daughter is being retraumatized by Kanye West’s comments and he’s creating an unsafe and unhealthy environment for her,” added Attorney Nuru Witherspoon.<\/p>\n

Roxie Washington, acting on behalf of her and Floyd’s child, Gianna, retained the Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon & Dixon Attorneys at Law. They fired off a cease and desist to West.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Floyd’s cause of death is well-settled through evidence presented in courts of law during the criminal and civil trials that were the result of his untimely and horrific death. nevertheless, you have maliciously made statements that are inaccurate and unfounded, causing damage to Mr. Floyd’s estate and his family,” the letter reads, which was obtained by Yahoo Entertainment.<\/p>\n

West brought up Floyd on the Drink Champs<\/em> podcast while touting conservative pundit Candace Owens’s documentary The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put out. One of the things that his two roommates said was they want a tall guy like me, and the day that he died, he said a prayer for eight minutes,” West said. “They hit [Floyd] with the fentanyl. If you look, the guy’s knee was n’t even on his neck like that.”<\/p>\n