50 Cent is now being sued by the girl who was hit within the head by the microphone the rapper allegedly threw throughout a live performance in Los Angeles.
In line with courtroom paperwork obtained by ET, Bryhana Monegain filed the lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom claiming the 48-year-old rapper threw his microphone throughout an Aug. 30, 2023 live performance at Crypto.com Area after he grew to become annoyed with the sound system.
Monegain, a radio character with Energy 106 in Los Angeles, claims in courtroom paperwork that she was lawfully on the [concert stage] within the crowd watching 50 Cent’s efficiency when he realized his microphone was not working and he threw the mic towards a crowded space, inflicting the microphone to strike her within the face and left wrist. The affect, she claims, resulted in extreme and everlasting accidents.
“Instantly after the incident, she was transported by ambulance to Los Angeles Common Medical Middle emergency division for therapy of accidents, together with however not restricted to a concussion, laceration over her brow and ache in her left wrist,” the courtroom paperwork state. “She complained of dizziness, complications, mild and sound sensitivity, and nausea.”
Monegain claims she “continues to endure from extreme accidents and emotional misery” as a result of incident. The radio character names Curtis Jackson James III (aka 50 Cent) as a defendant, in addition to Anschutz Leisure Group (Crypto.com Area’s operator) and G-Unit Touring (50 Cent’s touring firm). She claims AEG and G-Unit “failed to make use of affordable care to forestall the SUBJECT INCIDENT from occurring.”
Monegain is suing for damages that embrace previous and future wage loss, hospital and medical bills. ET has reached out to 50 Cent for remark.
In an announcement to ET, Monegain’s attorneys John Morgan and Casey Kilday from Morgan & Morgan say their shopper “was merely an attendee attempting to get pleasure from herself when a heavy object got here catapulting towards her face.”
“Irrespective of who the assailant is, this alleged act of negligence and violence is unacceptable, and we’ll maintain 50 Cent and his co-defendants accountable for his or her alleged actions,” the assertion continued. “Mr. Jackson has himself beforehand stated that ‘If the speak ain’t [a]bout cash, homie, I ain’t involved,’ so we’re assured our shopper will probably be pretty and justly compensated for the accidents she suffered.”
The lawsuit comes simply two months after the L.A. Metropolis Legal professional declined to criminally cost 50 Cent, this after the L.A. County District Legal professional’s Workplace kicked the case right down to the Metropolis Legal professional. In an announcement to ET, the L.A. Metropolis Legal professional’s Workplace acknowledged that “the case will stay open all through 1 12 months type the date of the incident” and that “it may be re-evaluated for doable felony costs, ought to there be any additional incidents between the events of any further stories made in opposition to Mr. Jackson. If there aren’t any additional police contacts with Mr. Jackson, this case will probably be closed after 1 12 months type the incident date.”
50 Cent’s lawyer beforehand denied that the rapper “deliberately” struck anybody after allegedly hitting a fan within the head together with his microphone throughout a efficiency.
“Let’s be very clear; as I instructed LAPD this afternoon, my shopper Curtis would by no means deliberately strike anybody with a microphone,” the Energy star’s lawyer, Scott Leemon, instructed ET in an announcement. “Anybody saying one thing totally different would not have all of the information and is misinformed.”
Following the incident, video captured by followers started circulating on social media exhibiting the rapper on one facet of the stage, seemingly annoyed together with his microphones as he throws one down and palms off one other whereas YG performs on the stage behind him. A second later, Jackson is seen strolling to a different a part of the stage earlier than he reappears rapping into one other mic. That one additionally appears to fail and a crew member palms him a brand new mic. Jackson then turns and hurls his defective mic into an space offstage.
Though the video didn’t present the place the microphone landed, pictures obtained by The Neighborhood Discuss present Monegain suffered an harm to her brow purportedly from being hit with 50 Cent’s mic. Within the footage, Monegain has bloodstains on her face and is lifting gauze off of her brow to point out the gash allegedly attributable to the mic.
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