Frank Ocean’s cousin, Sha'keir Duarte, is suing rapper Chris Brown following his January parking lot brawl with Ocean.
The Associated Press reports that Duarte is suing Brown for unspecified damages claiming he was punched and kicked in the early hours of the brawl.
Duarte is claiming that he suffered a concussion, mental anguish as well as humiliation following the incident.
In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Duarte claims that a member of Brown’s entourage identified as “Hood” threatened that the fight would escalate and could end in a shooting.
The brawl occurred in the earlier hours of January 27 in the parking lot of Westlake studios. The incident occurred allegedly over a parking spot after Ocean would not let Brown leave. At the time sources told TMZ that Ocean said, "This is my studio, this is my parking spot."
Brown’s attorney, Mark Geragos, has since dismissed the claims of the case saying, "This is what gives lawyers and lawsuits a bad name is garbage like this.” Geragos says he will have suit thrown out and then counter sue Duarte.
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