The family of slain Christian Obumseli has leveled a wrongful death suit against OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney, alleging that she failed to "maintain the subject premises in a safe and danger-free manner" when she stabbed her partner to death with a kitchen knife last April. Updated on Friday, the lawsuit alleges that Clenney is liable financially for Obumseli's medical and funeral expenses and to his estate because she stabbed him intentionally, causing undue stress and suffering for his surviving family and denying them his financial support in the future, according to Rolling Stone.
Clenney, 26, claims that she stabbed then-boyfriend, cryptocurrency trader Christian Tobechukwu "Toby" Obumseli, in self-defense. The couple had broken up, her attorneys claimed, and year-old Obumseli was stalking her, they said.
Although Clenney claimed that Obumseli tried to choke her in the moments before his death, prosecutors said she had no bruises consistent with choking and that the man was unarmed. She has pleaded not guilty. Police records and other evidence suggest that there was a regular pattern of abuse between the couple. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said their relationship was "tempestuous and combative" and that Clenney was the "aggressor," according to Rolling Stone.
Michael Haggard, a lawyer representing Obumseli's family, told Rolling Stone that he had "over 10 witnesses, not only from this building, from adjacent buildings, that are like, this woman is absolutely screaming at the top of her lungs, every curse word you can think [of], threatening this guy.
Meanwhile, he said, those witnesses all said that Obumseli was "under control" and that they never saw him acting aggressively. Crime News. Haggard called the situation "reverse domestic violence," remarking to the outlet that "most of the time, it's a man" who is abusive. Multiple friends who knew the couple told Rolling Stone in a story published last May that Clenney was the abusive party in the relationship.
