*According to reports, last year, R&B luminary Patti LaBelle acted like a diva when she hurled curses and a half bottle of water at a mother and her 18-month-old baby.
Now the veteran singer’s facing a lawsuit filed by Manhattan residents Kevin and Roseanna Monk, who live in the apartment building where the whole yelling match took place.
According to the couple’s lawyer, Samuel L. Davis, LaBelle chastised the mother for letting the toddle take steps away from her as she hassled with some luggage and a car seat.
After Mrs. Monk scooped up the child, she turned to the singer and told her it was none of her business.
That’s when LaBelle threw the water, hurled an insult or two, and eventually attempted to hit Monk when she responded.
No arrests were made.
This isn’t the first time the singer has been accused of violence.
Five months ago, a U.S. Military Academy cadet sued LaBelle over an incident with her bodyguards at Houston airport. According to the complaint, the cadet was allegedly attacked for no reason. But she later countersued the man, saying he was trying to get into her limousine and that he was drunk, yelling racial slurs.
Davis said Roseanna Monk had asked LaBelle for an apology and a donation to a children’s cancer charity but was rebuffed. The Monks feel “someone’s got to teach her even a diva can’t attack and frighten and assault regular people in the building,” their lawyer said.
Hmmmm… Could be another celebrity shakedown.
I guess DIVA may have taken on another meaning? She has had 2 of these incidents in the past few months.What really going on with Ms Patti? The first one was caught on tape
IDK, ‘ol baby girl gots some anger issues, maybe that young boy she’s dating is straying from the nest. But that doesn’t give her the right to cause harm to people, especially a child. She’d be donating to my pocket. Her (and others) diva antics, make my opinion of her take a nose dive.
This is hard to believe especially involving a baby. There’s always two sides to every story. Let’s hope that this is only half the story………why do you keep messin’ with my mind? Isn’t it a shame.
Personally, I would of stayed out of it, if the toddler was about ot run into traffic then YES!!! I would of intervened by grabbibng the child before he or she gets hurt but I would not of chastised the mother. You cannot say anything negative to people about hteir children nowadays or else you are in for a fight. Patty should of prevented the child from running off or in hte street etc steer him or her back to the mother’s side and kept it moving. I know Patty thought she was being helpful she being old school and all but the Monk woman did not appreciate it.
She needs to sit her azz down and quit getting into trouble. This is the second incident involving her in less than a year! She hasn’t had a hit in years and when she makes the news it’s something negative! All the money in world and in show business for 40 plus years, yet she can’t conduct herself in a positive manner and NOT be aware of her surroundings? She, Naomi and that fool, Inga Marchand…aka Foxxy Brown, need their azzes whump!!!
She need to get her anger under control & seek anger management. I do not agree with throwing a bottle at anyone yet a child, And yet another lawsuit to do what with it?? Hopefully it will go to Charity, but I do not buy that lame azz excuse the child cannot sleep & blah blah