*Katt Williams recently avoided a $1.7 million judgment in a lawsuit accusing him of assaulting a woman who claimed to be his former personal assistant.
According to Vibe, the plaintiff, Angelina Triplett-Hill, filed the suit in 2016, alleging Williams assaulted her in 2014 on a film set, causing her to lose consciousness. She was initially awarded a $1.7 million default judgment after he failed to appear in court. However, his lawyer successfully had the judgment overturned, and during the trial, the lack of medical records and Williams’ presentation of his actual assistant led to his victory in the case.
“Katt said he did nothing wrong and would never pay the woman a cent,” said Jeremiah Reynolds, Williams’ lawyer, in a statement.
“He accepted the risks and understood that the plaintiff would try to play on sympathy at trial to ask for even more money,” Reynolds continued.
“At trial, we argued that the plaintiff had created a false narrative of working for Katt as his assistant and faked the incident. The plaintiff tried to play on the jurors’ emotions, supposed ‘power imbalances,’ and did everything she could to try to bring in irrelevant and prejudicial evidence about Katt. Judge Snyder excluded it all,” the lawyer added.
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Williams made headlines earlier this year for his explosive interview on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast. During the conversation, he slammed fellow comedians Kevin Hart, Steve Harvey, Michael Blackson, Cedric the Entertainer, and Tiffany Haddish.
We reported previously that the bombshell interview garnered over 46 million views in 10 days across social media when it premiered in January, and over a million audio downloads. Sharpe’s social media following also significantly increased due to “The Katt Williams Effect.”
Sharpe later disclosed that the interview earned him more money (via YouTube’s ad-sharing program) than any NFL season.
“Everybody was talking ’bout, ‘well how much money [he] made doing the Katt Williams interview;’ I just got the check,” Sharpe told Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson during an episode of their Nightcap podcast, Vibe reported.
“Put it like this here, I made more money on Katt Williams alone than I made in any year I played in the NFL,” he added.
Per Vibe, Sharpe “earned an NFL career-high of $5 million in 2000 during his first season with the Baltimore Ravens,” the outlet writes. He didn’t disclose the exact figure earned from the controversial sit-down but hinted that the total surpassed $6 million.
“So whatever you think I made, 3x it. So if you think I made five hundred thou, 3x it. If you think a million, 3x it,” Sharpe continued. “If you think I made $2 million, 3x it.”
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