Ex-girlfriend sues Floyd Mayweather for $20M

LOS ANGELES, USA – Manny Pacquiao isn’t the only combatant from the “Fight of the Century” facing a lawsuit this week.

Floyd Mayweather Jr, who defeated Pacquiao by unanimous decision on May 2 in Las Vegas, is facing a $20-million lawsuit from the mother of 3 of his  4 children.

The lawsuit stems from Mayweather’s interview with Yahoo’s Katie Couric before the May 2 fight.

Josie Harris, his ex-girlfriend, is claiming defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress after the 38-year-old boxer denied the domestic violence charges that sent him to prison for two months. He claimed instead that Harris was on drugs and that he only restrained her.

The incident occurred in September of 2010 after Mayweather, according to police, punched Harris at his home in Las Vegas.

Harris claims in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday, May 5, in Los Angeles County, California, where she now resides, that the 5-division boxing champion punched and kicked her while she slept on a couch, then dragged her around the house.

Mayweather pleaded to a misdemeanor battery charge as well as two counts of harassment. He served two months of a 3-month sentence before being granted parole.

Mayweather will reportedly make over $100 million for the fight at the MGM Grand.

A report on Deadspin revealed at least 7 incidents with 5 different women in which Mayweather was either cited or arrested.

On the same day the lawsuit against Mayweather was filed, Pacquiao was named in a class-action lawsuit filed by two Nevada men claiming that Pacquiao defrauded them by not disclosing his shoulder injury before the fight. 

The plaintiffs argue that by failing to go public with the injury before the fight, the Filipino boxer and his camp violated the Nevada Deceptive Trade Practices Act. – Rappler.com