French Montana finds himself entangled in pricey authorized bother following an animal-related incident at his property.
French Montana confronted a major monetary chunk earlier this week after a choose lately ordered the Hip-Hop star to pay greater than $400,000 over a 2019 canine mauling at his Calabasas property.
The lawsuit stems from an incident in November 2019 when Montana’s Tibetan mastiff attacked landscaper Jason Leyva, leaving him with painful bites to his shoulder and hip.
Leyva’s accidents required hospitalization, a number of stitches and antibiotic therapy.
Regardless of French Montana claiming he believed a settlement had already been reached, Leyva insists no such settlement ever existed.
Leyva maintains that any funds he obtained from Montana had been solely funds for contracted landscaping work, not associated to the canine assault.
The choose’s determination got here after Montana failed to supply documentation proving a previous settlement. Leyva went even additional, alleging that any settlement paperwork Montana may present can be fraudulent.
French Montana’s lawyer, Dariush Adli, spoke with Rolling Stone about plans to problem the ruling that stated the rapper must pay over $402,644.
“We’ll ask the choose to rethink,” Adli stated. “If he received’t, we’ll advocate to our shopper that we enchantment. If the choose maintains his place, we’re assured this will likely be overturned on enchantment.”
Initially, Leyva had pursued a a lot heftier declare, in search of roughly $2.3 million in damages. He alleged that Montana promised to cowl his medical bills instantly following the assault, a promise Leyva says was by no means honored.
The courtroom dominated towards French Montana by default, stating he demonstrated no viable motive for neglecting to reply to the lawsuit in a well timed method.
The rapper, nevertheless, argued that he had no information of the authorized motion till the default judgment was already in place.
