Soulja Boy’s web price is adverse, a choose discovered within the rapper’s authorized battle towards his ex-girlfriend. The choose instructed that Soulja minimize his bills so he will pay a $472,000 judgment he owes the lady.
A Decide Discovered That Soulja Boy’s Internet Price Is Damaging
In response to paperwork obtained by XXL on Friday (July 28), a choose denied Soulja Boy’s movement to have a $472,000 judgment thrown out in a civil case as a result of he had little or no cash within the financial institution and a $1 million tax lien. In court docket papers, a Los Angeles Superior Court docket choose discovered Soulja’s web price is adverse as a result of he did not present his monetary data to the court docket. Nevertheless, the choose believes that Draco was ready to make sufficient cash to fulfill his debt.
The choose instructed to the Atlanta rapper that he minimize his dwelling bills like shifting out of his Los Angeles residence.
“Somebody as near zero (financially) as defendant [Soulja Boy] claims to be would possibly need to scale down the dwelling preparations,” the choose wrote. “$25,000 is numerous month-to-month lease—even in Los Angeles. There isn’t a cause of which the court docket is conscious that he couldn’t relocate to a extra ‘modest’ $10,000/month residence. Additional, the court docket is conscious of no money owed that the defendant owes aside from the tax debt and the judgment right here.”
The choose additional acknowledged: “Defendant [Soulja] should be incomes cash from someplace adequate to pay for the lease and no matter different month-to-month bills he has. In different phrases, defendant is paying $300,000/12 months in lease alone. It stands to cause that he should have another dwelling bills. And that cash should come from someplace. It’s not coming from loans, for defendant didn’t testify as to some other money owed.”
“So, though the court docket doesn’t know from whence the cash is coming, it’s coming from someplace. It’s not an unimaginable inference to conclude that his general monetary situation should be adequate to permit him to reside the approach to life he does with out going into debt,” the choose concluded.
In response to the paperwork, Soulja Boy confessed that his property are restricted: he owns three automobiles (two are price $250,000 every, and one price $100,000), has about $18,000 price of jewellery and $50,000 price of inventory. His lawyer additionally informed the Santa Monica Superior Court docket that he couldn’t liquidate his property as a result of they’re important to his profession as an entertainer, and promoting them would injury his picture.
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Soulja Boy Ordered to Pay 472,000 to Assault Sufferer
As beforehand reported, Soulja Boy was ordered to pay a $472,000 judgment to his ex-girlfriend Kayla Myers in connection to a February 2019 assault and kidnapping case the place the rapper was accused of hitting Myers with a gun.
In court docket paperwork obtained by XXL, Soulja, born DeAndre Approach, was ordered by a Los Angeles jury on April 21, 2023 to pay Myers $235,900 in damages, together with $1,800 for psychological well being bills and $234,100 for bodily and psychological ache and struggling. Myers was additionally awarded an extra $236,000 in punitive damages, that are supposed to punish the defendant for his or her negligence and/or malice. In whole, Myers was awarded almost $500,000.
XXL has reached out to Soulja Boy’s attorneys for remark.
