Chris Brown’s former housekeeper desires a choose to pressure the musician to take a seat for questioning in her lawsuit over a “vicious” canine assault.
Sept. 3 2024, Revealed 4:30 p.m. ET
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Maria Avila says her nerves and bones have been ripped from her face and arms in the course of the assault.
Her lawsuit alleges Brown’s “aggressive” 200+ lbs Caucasian Shepherd, Hades, “brutally mauled, bit and attacked her” when she was working at his Los Angeles residence in December 2020.
She was taking out the trash when Hades appeared “out of nowhere” and overpowered her.
The grievance included graphic photographs of the “in depth accidents” she suffered within the assault that left her “on the bottom bleeding profusely, with giant chunks of pores and skin lacking from her face, arms, and physique, and fearing she (was) going to die”.
Avila additionally claimed “nerves and bones had been ripped off of her arms and face”.
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Avila mentioned Brown’s Caucasian Shepherd, Hades, attacked her on the musician’s LA residence.
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Brown known as 911 as he allegedly “instruct(ed) his safety group to destroy proof and flee the scene”. Hades apparently had a microchip naming Brown’s firm, Black Pyramid, as his proprietor.
In a submitting on August 26, Avila’s attorneys mentioned regardless of their repeated requests, “Chris Brown and Black Pyramid LLC are refusing to reply fundamental discovery” and that their “requests to verify the depositions are being ignored by the protection counsel”.
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The doc learn: “(Avila’s counsel) has made efforts to fulfill and confer to pick a date for Defendant Chris Brown’s deposition, in addition to different Black Pyramid worker depositions, quite a few occasions during the last 12 months and have acquired no response from counsel to fulfill and confer.”
Brown’s attorneys beforehand argued their shopper had already testified in a case filed by Avila’s sister, who sued for emotional misery over the canine assault.
In January, the court docket dominated any discovery from her sister’s lawsuit would additionally apply to Avila’s case.
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Brown has denied Avila’s allegations and claimed she provoked the canine.
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However Avila’s counsel was not current for Brown’s deposition within the associated case, “and was subsequently not given a chance to cross-examine the defendant”.
Their submitting added: “The defendant additionally didn’t give discover to Plaintiff Maria Avila’s counsel that the deposition of Chris Brown was confirmed and observed for July 27, 2023, and subsequently no look on behalf of Plaintiff Maria Avila was made.”
Upon reviewing the transcripts from his deposition, Avila’s attorneys mentioned they’d “a plethora of remaining questions that should be addressed”.
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Brown had Hades euthanized after the assault, in accordance with court docket data.
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They requested the court docket to order Brown and his firm to cooperate with the invention course of and moved for “a casual discovery convention with the court docket” on September 3 “relating to (the) defendants’ poor discovery responses and the defendants’ manufacturing of the defendant Chris Brown and get together associated witnesses for deposition”.
Additionally they need the protection to make Black Pyramid staff and Brown’s safety guards who have been current on the day of the canine assault out there for questioning.
In a response filed 4 days later, lawyer Kenneth Ruttenberg mentioned he was within the strategy of being swapped out for Michael Schonbuch as Brown’s authorized consultant.
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Ruttenberg mentioned he “repeatedly instructed counsel for (Avila) that protection counsel was altering, however Plaintiff set the (convention) anyway and declined to proceed it”.
Avila made her request, he mentioned, “with minimal discover, with out asking (Brown’s) counsel in the event that they have been out there on that date”.
As a result of a conflicting listening to the identical day, Brown’s lawyer requested for the matter to be postponed “for just a few weeks to permit new protection counsel to seem within the case and rise up to hurry”.
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Avila filed her $70million lawsuit in opposition to Brown in April of 2021 for harm legal responsibility, negligence, emotional misery, and violation of a California canine chunk statute, amongst different allegations.
She mentioned Hades “had mauled, bitten, and attacked others on two or extra separate events previous to its mauling, biting, and assault on (Avila)”.
Brown has denied her allegations and mentioned “he had no advance information that the canine may be harmful”, claiming “the canine had by no means earlier than bitten or attacked anybody”.
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He accused Avila of inflicting herself to be injured by upsetting Hades.
However the state’s civil code states: “The proprietor of any canine is answerable for the damages suffered by any one who is bitten by the canine whereas in a public place or lawfully in a non-public place, together with the property of the proprietor of the canine, whatever the former viciousness of the canine or the proprietor’s information of such viciousness.”
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In accordance with court docket data, Brown had the canine euthanized and Avila mentioned she believed this was accomplished out of “worry for legal prosecution or different culpability”.
Her lawsuit additionally mentioned Avila “stays beneath a health care provider’s care and can endure everlasting and debilitating accidents”.
The civil case is at the moment scheduled to go to trial on January 27, 2025.
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