R&B Stars Face Million Dollar Lawsuit
Posted: Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
According to recent reports R&B stars Rhianna and Chris Brown are being sued for one million dollars by a photographers who claims that he was assaulted by the bodyguards of Brown, who he accuses of beating him up and stealing his camera.
The photographer, Luis Santana, claims that he was assaulted in May of this year, when he tried to take photographs of the R&B stars at the St. Petersburg’s Vintage Ultra Lounge in Florida, where Brown is said to have been celebrating his nineteenth birthday.
Santana said that he took a picture of the two stars through the window of their limo. However, he claims that he was then assaulted by Brown’s bodyguards, who he said beat him up and then took his camera. The photographer’s lawyer said that the camera proved that the couple were dating, and could have been sold to gossip magazines for a fortune.
The photographer is suing for one million dollars stating that the money is to cover the cost of his camera, the money he would have been paid for the pictures, and also for the medical problems and mental anguish he suffered as a result of the attack.
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