Ricky Martin information $20 million lawsuit towards nephew

Singer Ricky Martin has filed a $20 million lawsuit towards his nephew, claiming that he misplaced a number of million-dollar offers because of what he calls false sexual assault allegations. 

The 50-year-old Martin, whose actual title is Enrique Martin Morales, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in San Juan, Puerto Rico, towards his nephew Dennis Yadiel Sanchez, during which he claims that Sanchez has continued to “harass” the celebrity in an try to generate income. 

“The current case is about a world-famous artist, who is being persecuted, besieged, harassed, stalked and extorted by a maladjusted individual, whose curiosity is to acquire an financial profit or, in the various, will proceed his eagerness to assassinate the status and integrity of the artist,” the swimsuit claims. “The scenario has continued regardless of the Defendant voluntarily withdrawing from an motion he had commenced towards Plaintiff based mostly on falsehoods, throughout which he admitted underneath oath that he had by no means been sexually assaulted by Plaintiff.”

In July, a choose issued a restraining order towards Martin underneath Puerto Rico’s home violence regulation. However, police didn’t present additional particulars, together with who requested the order.

When the restraining order was issued, the Puerto Rico newspaper El Vocero stated the order said that Martin and the petitioner had dated for seven months, based on the Associated Press. The report quoted the order as saying that they broke up two months earlier, however that the petitioner claimed Martin didn’t settle for the separation, and had been seen loitering close to the petitioner’s home at the very least 3 times. The AP didn’t acquire a replica of the order.

But weeks later, “the petitioner ceased his claims voluntarily” and “the case was archived,” a judicial spokesperson advised the AP on the time, talking on situation of anonymity as required by tribunal guidelines.

Martin vehemently denied the allegations, and his nephew was by no means confirmed to be the petitioner. 

But, based on Martin, a month after withdrawing the restraining order, Sanchez started messaging the singer on Instagram, threatening Martin that “until he’s economically compensated, he’ll proceed together with his marketing campaign to assassinate his status and integrity, via false and malicious imputations,” the lawsuit reads. 

Martin’s swimsuit additionally claims that previous to submitting the restraining order, Sanchez despatched Martin as much as 10 messages a day for a number of months, and publicly boasted about being his nephew. Martin claims that Sanchez additionally created a “web page” for one of his minor youngsters, which he didn’t consent to, in addition to publish his telephone quantity on Instagram “as an act of retaliation for the silence and lack of consideration from Plaintiff,” the swimsuit says. 

Martin claims that his nephew’s actions have value him tens of millions in offers and has led to cancelled initiatives. 

“The reckless, malicious and culpable actions by defendant Sánchez have been motivated by the will to reveal plaintiff to hatred and disdain from his fanbase, to threaten his enterprise alternatives and to destroy his status,” the swimsuit says. “As a matter of reality, such actions brought on Plaintiff to have multimillion dollar-contracts and current and future inventive initiatives cancelled.”

On prime of his purported monetary losses, Martin claims that he not feels secure in Puerto Rico, and that the accusations have broken his status after 4 many years within the leisure business. In whole, Martin is searching for $20 million in compensation. 

“In addition, such culpable actions have additionally brought on harm to plaintiff’s status, who, till the protecting order grew to become public information, loved an impeccable status earned via his lengthy inventive and altruistic profession for the final nearly 40 years of his life,” the swimsuit stated.