{"id":48429,"date":"2015-05-07T13:04:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=48429"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T05:29:17","slug":"floyd-mayweathers-ex-girlfriend-sues-boxer-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/07\/floyd-mayweathers-ex-girlfriend-sues-boxer-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather&#8217;s ex-girlfriend sues boxer for defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:483px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:122.981366% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/145551594?et=yvrZeEBeRj1xNZxnQOsxLw&#038;viewMoreLink=on&#038;sig=X6EnAkOkS0YM3CYJttL-DFZbbp_DZxubQIH89jpgG3Y=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"483\" height=\"594\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/145551594\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; The mother of three of Floyd Mayweather Jr.&#8217;s children sued the undefeated boxing champion for defamation over his recent comments about her and a 2010 domestic violence attack in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Josie Harris filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, days after her ex-boyfriend defeated Manny Pacquiao in a highly anticipated bout.<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather&#8217;s attorney Shane Emerick said he hasn&#8217;t been served the case and declined to comment Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit focuses on comments Mayweather made during an April interview with Yahoo News anchor Katie Couric in which he said he was restraining his ex-girlfriend and that she was on drugs at the time of the incident. The lawsuit calls Mayweather&#8217;s comments &#8220;utterly false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather was arrested and charged with domestic violence after a hair-pulling, arm-twisting attack on Harris in September 2010. Two of their children witnessed the attack, which Harris&#8217; lawsuit states occurred because the boxer was jealous of her relationship with another man.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Mayweather served two months in jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge.<\/p>\n<p>The boxer told Couric, &#8220;Did I restrain a woman that was on drugs? Yes I did. So if they say that it&#8217;s domestic violence, then you know what, I&#8217;m guilty of restraining a person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The statements by Mayweather during the Couric interview were totally and unequivocally false and defamatory,&#8221; Harris&#8217; lawsuit states. &#8220;The true facts are Harris was not a drug-abuser or drug-addict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harris, who according to the suit is seeking to become a television personality, is seeking $20 million, although a jury would have to decide any actual damages award.<\/p>\n<p>The boxer was sued last year by his ex-fiancee, Shantel Jackson, who claims Mayweather beat her during their relationship and later publicly humiliated her by posting on social media a sonogram of her pregnancy and saying they broke up because she got an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather is seeking to dismiss Jackson&#8217;s lawsuit and a hearing on his motion is set for June 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com LOS ANGELES &#8212; The mother of three of Floyd Mayweather Jr.&#8217;s children sued the undefeated boxing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":48526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}