Remember when Army football player Richard King was suspended from the team (and likely marked for active duty service) as a result of an altercation with R&B legend Patti LaBelle? Well, it’s back for an encore: King filed a lawsuit against LaBelle earlier this month, alleging that he was attacked by her bodyguards, and now LaBelle has filed a countersuit claiming that King provoked the altercation by tossing racial slurs LaBelle’s way.
Army Football Player Richard King’s Altercation With Patti LaBelle: Now In Lawsuit Form!
Oh, and there’s a “You’re talking about my mama!” angle, too.
“King directed profane and racial slurs towards LaBelle. When LaBelle’s son (Zuri Edwards) heard the profanity and racial epithets, he informed King that the woman in the limousine was his mother,” the suit said. “Without warning or provocation, King violently and deliberately punched Edwards in the face.“I really appreciate the use of “violently” there as a clarifying adverb, because I was worried for a moment that King had nonviolently punched someone.
King’s lawyer denies that any racial slurs were said, but, really, can we get weirder than an unknown Army player being involved in a protracted legal battle with a B-minus-list diva who hasn’t released a studio album since 2007’s Miss Patti’s Christmas? Is Jose Canseco somehow behind all of this? What’s Metta World Peace’s opinion on LaBelle’s music?
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