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JAN ADAMS AVOIDS ARREST AFTER LATE COURT ARRIVAL: Plastic surgeon in court Friday over malpractice judgment awarded to former patient.
*A $30,000 bench warrant was issued, and then revoked Friday for Dr. Jan Adams after he showed up late to a court hearing in San Pedro, Calif. to face a former patient who sued him for mistakenly leaving a sponge inside of her during surgery.
According to multiple reports, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Tracy Grant issued the warrant for Adams' arrest early Friday morning but pulled it after he finally showed up at 11:40 a.m., wearing a black, pinstriped suit and carrying a cell phone that had Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" as a ring tone. The hearing was moved to 2 p.m.
The 53-year-old plastic surgeon, who performed surgery on Dr. Donda West one day before her death, was in Superior Court for a follow-up hearing in a malpractice lawsuit in which former patient Lori Ufondu was awarded a $100,000 default judgment after alleging that Adams left a surgical sponge inside her while he tried to patch up mistakes he made during a previous breast augmentation, causing her "severe physical pain and severe emotional distress."
Adams failed to show up at a previously appointed time and arrived Friday only after the judge issued the bench warrant.
"I don't think he answers any of these lawsuits," said Ufondu's lawyer Bob Nehoray, according to the Daily News. "He ignores them and lets them go into default with the hope that if he ignores them they won't exist."
Upon his arrival to court, Adams would not discuss Kanye's mother, stating only "We'll wait on the coroner's report and talk when it's appropriate. It's the least we can do for this family."
When asked if he felt badly about West's death, Adams said, "We all do."
According to TMZ.com, Nehoray said Adams once again denied that he had anything to do with the death of Kanye's mother, Donda West, who died one day after he gave her a tummy tuck and breast reduction.
"He felt the complications of her death was not a result of any wrongdoing that he performed and that he will be vindicated once the facts come to light," Nehoray said at the San Pedro Courthouse. "He said he thinks it's going to blow over."
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