Puerto Rican superstar Ricky Martin filed a lawsuit Wednesday versus his nephew accusing him of extortion, malicious persecution, abuse of regulation and damages stemming from fake allegations of sexual abuse.
Martin’s attorneys explained the claim by the nephew, which he has given that racanted, has charge the singer hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost revenue.
The lawsuit submitted in the U.S. territory’s Court of First Instance alleges that Martin has been “persecuted, besieged, harassed, stalked and extorted” by his “troubled” nephew for financial good reasons. It even more alleges that if the nephew does not get hold of any fiscal profit, he would proceed to “assassinate the reputation and integrity of the artist.”
The lawsuit contends the harassment has ongoing even however Martin’s nephew, recognized as Dennis Yadiel Sánchez Martin, admitted below oath in July that he had hardly ever been sexually assaulted by the artist.
Sánchez experienced earlier taken lawful motion towards his uncle based mostly on all those false allegations, which prompted a choose in Puerto Rico to concern a restraining purchase from Martin in July that a court later suspended.
Those allegations charge Martin at the very least $10 million in shed money as a end result of canceled contracts and initiatives as effectively as $20 million in damages to his status, according to the lawsuit.
The legal professional who represented Sánchez in that circumstance could not be promptly reached for remark. It wasn’t clear if she also would be symbolizing Sánchez in the lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The lawsuit said that from Oct 2021 to January 2022, Sánchez would send up to 10 messages a working day to Martin, the bulk of them “meaningless diatribes devoid of any particular intent.”
It also accused Sánchez of publishing Martin’s non-public range on Instagram, which pressured the singer to alter his number.
Several months then went by with no Sánchez sending a information till he requested the protection get in July versus Martin, according to the lawsuit.
It also claimed Sánchez falsely alleged that he had experienced a intimate connection with Martin for 7 months and that Martin supposedly did not want the connection to finish and kept calling Sánchez with frequency.
“Nothing further from the fact,” according to the lawsuit.
It also said two restraining orders had earlier been filed from Sánchez in an unrelated stalking scenario.
The nephew of Ricky Martin withdrew an get of safety ask for in opposition to the singer for the duration of a digital courtroom hearing in Puerto Rico Thursday and asked the judge to fall the circumstance.
