T.I.‘s spouse Tiny Harris caught flack this week following a since-deleted plea to crowdsource for a bodyguard who’s locked up in Dubai for safeguarding Trey Songz.
The publish, which was shared (and ultimately eliminated) on the singer-songwriter’s account on Tuesday (October 24), included a screenshot of a Day by day Mailarticle discussing Cornell Whitfield being sentenced to 1 yr in a Dubai jail after he stepped in whereas Songz was being attacked.
“We’re asking on your assist … $60k is what we try to boost to carry Champ again to the states,” Tiny captioned it. “This case is unlucky and he doesn’t need to be handled any sort of manner for doing his job. He’s a household man and loving father who deserves to be together with his family members. To donate the hyperlink is on my tales. Thanks!!!! Carry champ residence.”
The feedback had been much less sympathetic, nonetheless, with folks questioning why Tiny, T.I., Trey or any mixture of them couldn’t deal with the invoice themselves.
“It’s TREY bodyguard that’s locked up for safeguarding HIM, make HIM pay it lmao that ain’t our drawback we heading in direction of WW3 proper now,” one individual wrote.
“It’s disrespectful to flex Rolls Royce’s and million Greenback watches after which ask us for 60k,” one other mentioned, whereas another person commented: “So between her, tip and trigga they couldn’t give 20k every.”
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In response to the hooked up article, Songz was confronted by a person who was swearing and waving his arms as he left the posh FIVE Palm Jumeirah resort in March. Doing his job, Whitfield jumped in and he claims that he gently tapped the person’s face, then went about his enterprise. He left the nation and returned in August – solely to be arrested upon touchdown as a result of the person had filed a prison grievance.
Whitfield was informed he needed to pay his “sufferer” $60k to have the costs dropped, and when he couldn’t, he was sentenced to a yr in jail. He’s presently out on bail however unable to depart the United Arab Emirates.
In the meantime, T.I. and Tiny are tied up in their very own authorized battle – not too long ago submitting a counterclaim in opposition to their former pal, Sabrina Peterson, after a choose dismissed the vast majority of her harassment declare in opposition to them.
Courtroom paperwork obtained by Radar On-line revealed that the Harris’s filed a counterclaim in opposition to Peterson on August 31, whereby they demanded greater than $164,000 in authorized charges from her.
“The Harrises’ request for $164,650.56 in attorneys’ charges and prices is cheap and according to payment awards recurrently affirmed on this district. Given the complexity of the authorized points, the time essential to adjudicate Peterson’s seven causes of motion over a two-year interval, and the extra prices of enchantment, the quantity requested needs to be awarded in full,” the couple’s lawyer wrote within the temporary.
A choose has not but dominated on the request, and the litigation remains to be ongoing.
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T.I. and Tiny Harris have been battling Sabrina Peterson since 2021, when she first made claims in opposition to the “Rubber Band Man” rapper for a myriad of assaults, each bodily and sexual in nature.
Peterson, a presumed pal of Tiny on the time, first claimed by way of Instagram publish that the Hustle Gang boss as soon as put a gun to her head whereas her youngsters had been in the identical room.
She would later clarify within the remark part that the incident occurred as a result of she was assaulting Tip’s former feminine assistant, who was allegedly treating Tiny like a “SLAVE.”
“The unhappy half about being a lady & BEING A BLACK WOMAN IS THIS! The general public PRAISES OUR PREDATORS! @troubleman31, you PUT A GUN TO MY HEAD IN FRONT OF CHILDREN & I NEVER CALLED THE POLICE ON YOU! However for years, you might have painted me because the VILLAIN!” she wrote in her publish.
Moreover, Peterson publicized different ladies’s allegations of sexual assault in opposition to the couple. In response, Tiny and Tip denied the accusations made by their former pal on social media.
In June, the pair received a minor victory in opposition to her when an appeals courtroom struck down a number of claims in her lawsuit.
