Tyrese’s ex-wife Samantha desires the singer thrown in jail over accusations that he nonetheless owes virtually $500,000 in charges to her attorneys of their unending divorce case.
Greater than 4 years after the pair break up, Samantha Gibson filed a lawsuit Friday (July 25) claiming the Quick & Livid star has “made no effort in any respect” to pay a court-ordered $399,512 to the attorneys that repped her within the divorce — a determine that’s now ballooned to $492,651 as a consequence of curiosity.
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“Mr. Gibson has the flexibility to pay the courtroom ordered lawyer’s charges and accrued curiosity and chooses to disregard the courtroom’s order, as he has ignored and violated prior orders,” she writes in her grievance, later calling it a “blatant disregard for this courtroom’s order on charges.”
As punishment for the non-payment, the submitting known as for a harsh penalty: being held in felony contempt of courtroom and despatched to jail for 20 days. A spokesman for Tyrese declined to touch upon Tuesday (July 29).
When the Gibsons finalized their divorce in 2023, the choose overseeing the case ordered Tyrese to pay his ex-wife’s authorized payments from the case, together with $217,731 to The Gleklen Regulation Agency and one other $181,421 to Bloom Strains Alexander.
Since then, the pair has battled repeatedly over that debt and others. In September, the choose ordered Tyrese taken into custody after holding him in contempt for failing to pay baby help (he was released just hours later.) A month later, the Gleklen agency filed for a lien on the star’s Atlanta mansion over the massive authorized invoice debt.
Now, Samantha and her attorneys filed a brand new civil lawsuit searching for a brand new contempt order that they hope will drive him to lastly pay up.
“The movants respectfully request … that the courtroom, in making its discovering of willful contempt, impose extreme sanctions upon Mr. Gibson as deemed acceptable by the courtroom in gentle of his historical past of violating courtroom orders,” her attorneys write within the new submitting.