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Patti LaBelle Accused Of Ordering Bodyguard To Beat Cadet

09/18/2014
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(Radio.com) Patti LaBelle did not really punch Aretha Franklin earlier this year, but new reports of LaBelle ordering her bodyguard to beat up a West Point cadet may actually be true.

According to the Associated Press (via Billboard), a lawyer for the now ex-cadet Richard King alleges that LaBelle's bodyguard beat him up outside the Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston in March 2011 as he waited for a ride home from his family.

The beating, the lawyer told the court yesterday (Sept. 16), resulted in a brain injury that forced King to drop out of the military academy. King is now suing LaBelle; LaBelle's manager and son, Zuri Edwards, her bodyguard, Efrem Holmes, and LaBelle's hairdresser, Norma Harris in relation to the incident.

King says he had just arrived in his hometown of Houston while on spring break from West Point when LaBelle's bodyguard and two others attacked him. King's lawyer told the court his client was minding his own business outside the airport terminal when "he was attacked without provocation" by the 400-pound Holmes, as well as by Edwards and Harris. King says he suffered a traumatic brain injury after hitting his head on a concrete pillar during the attack.

But LaBelle's attorneys told the court that King was actually the aggressor, throwing the first punch at Edwards. Read more here.

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