Y’all already know Breezy can’t catch a break these days, and now it’s looking like his wallet is the latest target. Chris Brown’s former housekeeper, Maria Avila, is now going after a slice of his coins from “The R&B Tour” with Usher, and courts are letting her make her move, TMZ reports.
Here’s the recap for anybody who slept on this. Back in June, a Los Angeles jury hit Brown with a $12.9 million verdict after finding him liable for a 2020 incident where his 200 pound Caucasian shepherd, Hades, allegedly mauled Avila while she was taking out the trash at his Tarzana crib.
Her sister Patricia got tacked on $885,000 for emotional distress, and Avila’s husband walked away with $50,000. All together, that’s almost $13.8 million Brown’s camp is on the hook for.
But peep this, Brown’s side has consistently maintained he did right by warning Avila about the dog. He testified that he had warned Avila the dogs on the property were not friendly, and his team argued the animal actually belonged to his security team, not to him personally. So it’s not like the man was hiding a killer dog and saying nothing, dude says he gave her the heads up.
But still, Avila’s attorneys pushed back, citing a language barrier that they claim kept the warning from landing the way Brown’s team says it did.
Now here’s where it gets real wild. Since the verdict, Avila’s lawyer Nancy Doumanian claims Brown “have made no effort to satisfy any portion of the judgment,” and instead of waiting around, her team went straight for the bag, specifically, the bag Brown’s currently filling up on the road with Usher.
Avila’s motion asked the court to earmark touring profits, freeze tour-related accounts, and if that’s still not enough, come for his music royalties, licensing money, merch sales, and sponsorship deals too. Basically: everything with Chris Brown’s name attached to a check.
Chris ain’t just sitting back either. His team fired back in court docs, arguing Avila’s request to grab “all of his current and future income” is way too broad and stretches past what California law actually allows a judgment creditor to take… a fair point.
While he’s out here doing 33 stadium dates through December, and somebody wants first dibs on the whole operation before he even sees a check? That’s not “collecting a debt,” that’s trying to run his business for him.
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