What was Katt Williams accused of? All about Angelina Triplett-Hill's $1.7M lawsuit as comedian scores major win
As per AllHipHop's report dated October 15, 2024, American comedian and actor Katt Williams won the lawsuit filed against him by Angelina Triplett-Hill. She accused him of battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and other counts in 2016. The lawsuit was filed seeking $1.7 million and Angelina alleged that the actor beat her while she was working as his personal assistant on a movie.
According to details of the lawsuit shared by The Wrap on August 18, 2016, Katt Williams allegedly got violent with Angelina on a work trip to California in 2014. He reportedly "violently lunged towards" her, grabbing her phone out of her hand and throwing it out of a truck window.
The lawsuit mentioned that Williams violently struck Angelina's face in a fit of rage, causing her to fall on the ground, slamming her head against the concrete, and becoming unconscious.
Angelina reportedly spent three days in the hospital after the alleged attack which also caused her "severe emotional distress," as per details of her lawsuit.
"Katt said he did nothing wrong and would never pay the woman a cent": Katt Williams' lawyer mentioned in a statement
As per Angelina Triplett-Hill’s lawsuit against Katt Williams, a judge awarded the default judgment of $1.7 million in Angelina's favor in 2016 after she filed a motion for default judgment. This came after Williams ignored the lawsuit and didn't show up in court to respond to the allegations.
Years later, Katt Williams' attorney Jeremiah Reynolds tried to convince Judge Christina Snyder to depart from the judgment and argued:
“Katt said he did nothing wrong and would never pay the woman a cent. He accepted the risks and understood that the plaintiff would try to play on sympathy at trial to ask for even more money.”
Katt Williams' attorney also mentioned that at trial they had argued that the plaintiff created a false narrative of working as Williams' assistant and thereby faked the incident.
Reynolds also said that Angelina tried to play with the emotions of the jurors to try to do everything she could to bring prejudicial and irrelevant evidence about Williams. She also said that the judge excluded it all.
Additionally, the social media page @lawyersforworkers mentioned that Katt Williams' lawyer argued that there were no hospital or police records that showed evidence of the injuries Angelina claimed she suffered after Williams allegedly assaulted her. The actor's attorneys also claimed that Angelina wasn't working for Williams and produced his real assistant as evidence thereby winning the case.
In other news, Katt Williams made headlines with his jokes on Diddy's legal situation. The actor and comedian performed at the Lucas Oil Live, Oklahoma on September 27, 2024, wherein he joked about the 1000 bottles of baby oil recovered from Diddy's properties during a federal raid in March 2024.