Lil Wayne is being sued by his former bodyguard who claims the American rapper 'punched' him and 'threatened him with a gun'.
According
to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Carlos Christian alleges that
Wayne, 41, brandished a semiautomatic rifle and 'threatened to shoot
him' during an altercation in December 2021.
The guard also claims the hitmaker, whose real name is Dwayne Michael
Carter Jr., 'punched him in the ear' during the incident, which took
place at Wayne's Hidden Hills, CA home.
Christian called the
cops at the time and accused Wayne of threatening him with an AR-15, but
sources close to the musician denied the incident took place and
claimed Wayne didn't even own a gun.
The guard reportedly took the gun threat seriously, as Wayne previously spent time in prison for weapons charges.
Christian
claims he has incurred medical expenses, lost wages, and suffered
emotional distress due to the alleged altercation and is looking for
compensatory and punitive damages.
At the time of the alleged
incident deputies responded to a call about an assault with a deadly
weapon at a Hidden Hills, California home on at around 1.40pm.
When
they arrived, deputies told DailyMail a Hispanic male adult working as a
security guard said he had a verbal altercation that turned physical
with the black male resident.
A dispute ensued when Wayne accused the guard of taking photos of him and leaking them to the media, TMZ reported at the time.
The guard claims Wayne told him to leave the house during the dispute, but the guard went to the bathroom first, and Wayne pulled out an AR-15. At that point, the guard claims, he fled the house to the gated community's guard shack and called the police.
But when the police went to speak to the rapper, he was no longer at his $15.4 million home he bought in April.
At the time sources told TMZ Wayne strongly denied the accusation and said he does not own a gun.
According
to the publication, sheriff's deputies had doubts about the guard's
story, as they noted he did not have marks on his body or injuries from
the alleged altercation, and told police he did not want to press
charges against the rapper.
