FKA Twigs gets trial date set for lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf
The singer is suing her former partner LaBeouf for sexual battery, assault, and emotional distress
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British pop singer FKA Twigs (whose legal name is Tahliah Barnett) has officially been given a trial date for her sexual battery lawsuit against former partner Shia LaBeouf.
The trial for the civil case has been set for April 17, 2023, per Rolling Stone. “The gaslighting has gone on long enough here and it’s time to hold Shia LaBeouf accountable,” Barnett’s lawyer Bryan Freedman says in a statement to the outlet. “My client wants a trial date.”
Barnett originally filed the lawsuit in 2020, alleging “relentless abuse,” sexual battery, assault, and emotional distress. Barnett and LaBeouf dated for a year following the filming of Honey Boy, which they starred in together.
According to the filed lawsuit, Barnett alleges LaBeouf didn’t like it if she spoke to or even looked at other men. He also allegedly had rules concerning how many times a day she had to kiss and touch him, didn’t let her wear clothing to bed, turned small disagreements into all-night fights, and kept a loaded firearm by the bed. Additionally, Barnett claims LaBeouf threw her to the ground outside a hotel they’d visited during Valentine’s Day in 2019, among other violent incidences.
“What I went through with Shia was the worst thing I’ve ever been through in the whole of my life,” Barnett told The New York Times in 2020. “I don’t think people would ever think that it would happen to me. But I think that’s the thing. It can happen to anybody.”
“I’m not in any position to tell anyone how my behavior made them feel,” LaBeouf wrote in response to The Times article. “I have no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, only rationalizations. I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years. I have a history of hurting the people closest to me. I’m ashamed of that history and am sorry to those I hurt. There is nothing else I can really say.”
However, in a statement from his lawyers released in 2021, LaBeouf denied inflicting “any injury or loss” on Barnett, stating that she is not “entitled to any relief or damages whatsoever.”
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Her lawyer’s name is “Freedman” ha!
But seriously this sounds horrible. That’s seriously toxic stuff.
Side-eye at any lawyer who uses “gaslighting” in his public statements.
It’s a word, it’s defined.
Between this and Depp/Heard we’re going to need a new channel specifically for the airing of trials between celebrity exes.
The DV Club?
“The singer is suing her former partner LaBeouf for sexual battery, assault, and emotional distress”And herpes. Don’t forget herpes.
So he was controlling, mean, hateful and once threw her to the ground? That sounds like every relationship I’ve ever seen. What’s the point of a relationship if one of you isn’t trying to dominate and oppress the other? I’ve had girls hit me in the head with a cast iron skillet; another was choking me in the sleeper hold when the cops finally arrived.You can sue for that shit????
Good luck to her but I doubt she’ll win.
Shia’s response is so shitty he’s basically saying “people know I’m abusive it’s her fault for engaging with me” he totally dismisses any responsibility for his actions… which is basically the plot of Honey Boy!
Women really need to give up the hopeless mission to ‘fix’ men who have no intention of improving themselves. They show us who they are. We need to believe them and turn our energies toward supporting each other.
Are you seriously blaming her?
For HIS beavior, no. For staying with him, yes.
But it’s their favorite sport!
How many mental 360 double backflips does it take to get from “ I have a history of hurting the people closest to me. I’m ashamed of that history and am sorry to those I hurt” to that?
Why is this a civil lawsuit? Why not an attempt to charge him with assault?
A couple of reasons.1. An individual can’t charge someone with a crime. They can make a complaint to the police and the police/DA/grand jury charge the person. I don’t know if she did make a complaint, but if she did they could have declined to prosecute for a number of reasons. 2. Battery is both a criminal and a civil offense. Someone might choose to pursue both criminal and civil remedies, or choose one or the other. Reasons one might choose civil include the fact that it has a lower burden of proof. In a criminal case the prosecutor would have to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That is a very high standard and in a case like this that would be hella hard since it appears to be pretty much 100% he said/she said. In a civil suit, by contrast, the burden of proof is simply a preponderance of the evidence, meaning the plaintiff just has to convince the factfinder more than 50% that the person did it and is therefore liable for damages. That’s way easier and why you often see when someone was found not guilty of murder, the victim will then sue them civilly and win. Not because the civil jury thought they were telling the truth and the criminal jury thought they were lying; it’s just a different burden of proof (see OJ Simpson).Another reason a civil suit against a rich person might be preferable in a case like this against a rich, famous person is that you can expect that person either not to be convicted or not to serve much time. In a civil suit you could get a large verdict for a lot of money and that might be the best you can hope for.Hope that helps!
You can sue somebody for a s***** relationship?
Date a narcissistic, self centered actor. What could possibly go wrong?
“There is nothing else I can really say…except that I didn’t do it.” is how I read Shoe LaBeef’s comments. “I could be a bad person, but not in this case”