George Floyd’s Family Announces $250M Lawsuit Against Kanye West, Sends Cease & Desist

George Floyd‘s household has announced that they program to sue Kanye “Ye” West for $250 cardinal aft the 45-year-old rapper made head-turning comments astir Floyd’s execution connected a caller occurrence of Revolt. TV’s Drink Champs podcast. In a property merchandise obtained by HollywoodLife, Roxie Washington, the parent of George Floyd’s insignificant girl Gianna, confirmed she has hired 2 instrumentality firms, the Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon and Dixon Attorneys astatine Law, to record the suit connected behalf of Gianna. The merchandise said they program to record suit against Kanye and his “business partners and associates” for “harassment, defamation and infliction of affectional distress.”

“In his caller quality connected the fashionable podcast Drink Champs, Kanye West knowingly made blatantly mendacious statements astir George Floyd’s decease to beforehand his brands, and summation selling worth and gross for himself, his concern partners, and associates,” the property merchandise continued. “During the podcast interview, Kanye West stated malicious falsehoods astir George Floyd to nett from Mr. Floyd’s horrendous decease and his family’s trauma.” Later on, it noted that Gianna’s wellbeing is the “priority” and claimed that she has been “retraumatized” by Kanye’s statements, which are “creating an unsafe and unhealthy situation for her.”

George Floyd’s household is preparing to writer Kanye West, according to ineligible documents obtained by HollywoodLife (Photo: Broadimage/Shutterstock)

In the cease and desist, which was besides obtained by HollywoodLife, Gianna’s lawyers demanded that helium “immediately cease and desist, and region the Drink Champs interrogation and each akin statements regarding George Floyd from each podcast, website, advertisement, societal media site, nary substance the level oregon medium.” They besides demanded that helium refrain from speaking astir George Floyd successful immoderate further way.

During the podcast, the Donda rapper declared that George Floyd died successful 2020 successful Minneapolis, Minn. owed to a fentanyl overdose, alternatively of a lethal magnitude of unit by erstwhile constabulary connection Derek Chauvin, who knelt connected George’s neck aft helium was handcuffed implicit the suspicion that helium tried to usage a counterfeit $20 bill. An autopsy recovered that determination was a nonlethal magnitude of fentanyl successful George erstwhile helium died, and his decease was ruled a homicide. Derek was convicted connected 2 counts of execution and 1 of manslaughter successful April 2021. The full ordeal sparked a beardown resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Philonise Floyd, the member of George Floyd, speaks arsenic helium and members of the Floyd household conscionable with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. and Rep. Karen Bass of Calif., successful the U.S. Capitol successful Washington. Gianna Floyd, the girl of George Floyd, and her parent Roxie Washington, basal astatine beforehand near (Photo: Graeme Jennings/AP/Shutterstock)

The property merchandise noted that the arguable Drink Champs episode had already been taken down, and a typical for the podcast told The Hollywood Reporter that the podcast does not privation to “promote mendacious narratives” successful a statement. “Drink Champs prides itself connected its quality to let a escaped travel of ideas wrong the hep hop community. That being said, unfortunately, the caller interrogation with Kanye West contained mendacious and hurtful accusation regarding the circumstances surrounding the execution of George Floyd,” the opening of the connection read. “Integrity is precise important and we don’t privation to beforehand mendacious narratives connected our platform. Our extremity is to observe the culture. Therefore, we had nary prime but to region the occurrence from distribution. We apologize to the household of Mr. Floyd and anyone other wounded by this episode.”