Rapper Fetty Wap Found Guilty Of Defaming Ex-Employee, Ordered To Pay $1.1M
Fetty Wap’s long battle with a former employee has finally come to an end with the rapper taking a major L. According to BOSSIP, a jury found Fetty guilty of stiffing his ex-employee out of thousands of dollars and then defaming her by airing her out to the press.
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According to court papers obtained by the news site, the rapper’s ex tour staffer Shawna Morgan stated that she worked for Fetty and his company “Fetty Wap Touring,” with an agreement that the rapper would pay her between five and ten percent of his performance profits. Morgan explained that she often had to use her own money upfront for tour-related expenses, but Fetty would reimburse her. However, she said by early 2017, Fetty’s payments became delayed then eventually stopped, according to court papers obtained by BOSSIP. She said Fetty owed her a total of $242,703!
While that was the major reason she filed the suit, Morgan said the final straw came when Fetty made several public claims against her including that she had stolen money from him and had been charging Fetty’s company as well as clients. Due to that, she said Fetty’s alleged public comments damaged her reputation and work prospects. Just last month, the battle came to an end with a jury siding with her. Morgan was awarded $1,167,065 – $980,000 for defaming her, $66,294 for breach of contract, and $120,771 in interest, the judgment says, according to BOSSIP.
The gossip site noted that Fetty didn’t initially respond to the case, so a judge ruled in Morgan’s favor by default!
However, Fetty managed to get the case reinstated, and then both sides went to arbitration. It was later ruled that Fetty and his company pay Morgan $160,000, but, he asked for the case to head back to trial. Since the New Jersey artist did not honor the ruling, Fetty and his company now has to ask the press outlets that originally printed Fetty’s falsehoods to retract them. In addition to that, he has to post public retractions on both his private and public business social media accounts as well as take out ad space in “prominent entertainment publications” to renounce his claims and clear Morgan’s name, BOSSIP reports.
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