The lawsuit contends the harassment has continued despite the fact that Martin’s nephew admitted underneath oath in July that he had by no means been sexually assaulted by the artist.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rican famous person Ricky Martin filed a lawsuit Wednesday towards his nephew accusing him of extortion, malicious persecution, abuse of regulation and damages stemming from false allegations of sexual abuse.
Martin’s legal professionals mentioned the declare by the nephew, which he has since racanted, has price the singer hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in misplaced earnings.
The lawsuit filed within the U.S. territory’s Courtroom of First Occasion alleges that Martin has been “persecuted, besieged, harassed, stalked and extorted” by his “troubled” nephew for financial causes. It additional alleges that if the nephew doesn’t acquire any monetary profit, he would proceed to “assassinate the repute and integrity of the artist.”
The lawsuit contends the harassment has continued despite the fact that Martin’s nephew, recognized as Dennis Yadiel Sánchez Martin, admitted underneath oath in July that he had by no means been sexually assaulted by the artist.
Sánchez had beforehand taken authorized motion towards his uncle based mostly on these false allegations, which prompted a choose in Puerto Rico to concern a restraining order towards Martin in July {that a} courtroom later suspended.
These allegations price Martin at the very least $10 million in misplaced earnings because of canceled contracts and initiatives in addition to $20 million in damages to his repute, in response to the lawsuit.
The legal professional who represented Sánchez in that case couldn’t be instantly reached for remark. It wasn’t clear if she additionally can be representing Sánchez within the lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The lawsuit said that from October 2021 to January 2022, Sánchez would ship as much as 10 messages a day to Martin, nearly all of them “meaningless diatribes with none specific objective.”
It additionally accused Sánchez of publishing Martin’s personal quantity on Instagram, which compelled the singer to alter his quantity.
A number of months then glided by with out Sánchez sending a message till he requested the safety order in July towards Martin, in response to the lawsuit.
It additionally mentioned Sánchez falsely alleged that he had had a romantic relationship with Martin for seven months and that Martin supposedly didn’t need the connection to finish and saved calling Sánchez with frequency.
“Nothing farther from the reality,” in response to the lawsuit.
It additionally mentioned two restraining orders had beforehand been filed towards Sánchez in an unrelated stalking case.
