16 lines
1.4 KiB
Plaintext
16 lines
1.4 KiB
Plaintext
|
A former bodyguard for Justin Bieber is suing the pop superstar, seeking more than $420,000 in overtime and other wages and claiming the singer repeatedly struck him during an October confrontation.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Moshe Benabou's lawsuit claims Bieber berated him and repeatedly punched him in the chest after a disagreement about how to handle a member of the Grammy-nominated singer's entourage. After he walked away, Bieber fired him, Benabou's lawsuit claims.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Benabou also says he was mistakenly told that he wasn't entitled to receive overtime despite working 14 to 18 hour days between March 2011 and October 2012.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
An email message sent to Bieber's publicist was not immediately returned.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Benabou is seeking unspecified damages on the assault and battery claims and $421,261 in unpaid overtime, vacation and other wage benefits.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
"For nearly two years Mr. Benabou devoted himself completely to ensuring Mr. Bieber's personal safety," Benabou's attorney, Ilan Heimanson, wrote in a statement. "Mr. Benabou deserved, as does any employee, to be treated with respect, dignity and in accordance with the law. Unfortunately, he was not. "
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Bieber's album Believe ranked No. 6 in 2012 sales with more than 1.3 million units sold.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
In October Los Angeles prosecutors declined to file charges against Bieber after finding insufficient evidence that he punched and kicked a photographer outside a movie theater near his home in Calabasas, Calif., a month earlier.
|