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HOUSTON (KSAT) – A Houston woman has been awarded $1.2 billion after her ex-boyfriend distributed intimate images and videos of her online without her permission — a crime known as “revenge porn.”

The victim was awarded $200 million for past and future mental anguish (compensatory damages) & $1 billion in exemplary damages.

The victim’s ex-boyfriend, Marques Jamal Jackson, has been ordered to pay the damages.

“We are grateful the jury took a strong stand against the defendant’s abhorrent behavior & against imaged-based sexual abuse. While a judgment in this case is unlikely to be recovered, the compensatory verdict gives [the victim] back her good name,” said trial lawyer Bradford Gilde.

Court documents reveal that the former couple initially ended their relationship in 2020 but tried to reconcile several times & didn’t fully separate until the fall of 2021.

During that time, the victim moved back in with her mother & Jackson would log on to the victim’s mother’s home security system to spy on the victim.

Jackson hacked the victim’s work computer, emailed loan officers claiming the victim was submitting fraudulent applications & shared intimate material of the victim on multiple social media websites.

Gilde said Jackson intended to inflict a combination of psychological abuse, domestic violence & sexual abuse.

Trial evidence revealed that Jackson told the victim, “You will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to wipe yourself off the internet. Everyone you ever meet will hear the story & go looking. Happy Hunting.”

“We will forever admire [the victim’s] courage in fighting back. We hope the staggering amount of this verdict sends a message of deterrence and prevents others from this engaging in this despicable activity,” said Gilde.

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Takeoff's mother Titania Davenport has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Houston venue where the Migos rapper was shot & killed on November 1.

According to the court docs, obtained by TMZ Hip Hop, Davenport claims the companies behind 810 Billiards & Bowling failed to take appropriate security measures to protect guests at the venue ... including her son, Takeoff.

The suit, filed Wednesday in Harris County, Texas also cites the lack of security prechecks while knowing Takeoff's celebrity would draw a huge crowd.

Patrick Xavier Clark, the man police say fired the fatal shot that killed the 28-year-old, isn't named in the suit ... but Davenport alleges 810 should have known there was a risk of violence based on past incidents on the premises and the crime in the surrounding area.

Takeoff had a huge memorial service inside State Farm Arena in his hometown Atlanta & the suit is seeking over a million dollars in damages to cover his funeral expenses, mental anguish & more.

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The widow of Dwayne Haskins is claiming the ex-NFL star was drugged in the hours before his death ... alleging the former Steelers & Commanders quarterback was the target of a blackmail & robbery plot.

Kalabrya Haskins spelled out the allegations in a new lawsuit, that was filed in Florida.

In the documents, Kalabrya claims that on April 8 & the early morning hours of April 9, 2022, Dwayne visited 4 establishments in the Miami area & was drugged by a group of people planning to blackmail & rob him.

Kalabrya says Joey Smith, Meriem Yassine, Wissal Yassine & Karlee Peyton drugged the 26-year-old old at some point while he spent time at the Wyndham Hotel, a Drive Shack, a restaurant called the Blue Anchor Pub & E11EVEN nightclub.

According to a statement released by Kalabrya's attorney, Rick Ellsley, on Monday morning, Ellsley alleges that Dwayne's "highly-expensive watch was stolen from him shortly before his death" ... although he doesn't specify who he thinks took it.

Kalabrya is suing the 4 for battery ... while also going after the four establishments for negligence, claiming they allowed "patrons to use drugs & to drug other patrons, including [Dwayne]."

Dwayne died on April 9, 2022 ... after authorities say he was struck by a dump truck on a Florida highway. According to a Broward County Medical Examiner's Office investigation report, Dwayne had been on foot on the roadway after his rental car had ran out of gas.

Authorities said in the docs the QB "drank heavily" & ingested ketamine in the hours leading up to his passing. They said he had a blood alcohol level of .24 at the time of the accident.

Kalabrya is also going after several other people in her suit ... among them, the dump truck driver who hit Dwayne, the rental car company that Dwayne obtained his vehicle from & the Florida Department of Transportation.

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A first-grade Virginia teacher who was shot & seriously wounded by her 6-year-old student filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $40 million in damages from school officials, accusing them of gross negligence for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings on the day of the shooting that the boy had a gun & was in a “violent mood.”

Abby Zwerner, a 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia was shot in the hand & chest on Jan. 6 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom. She spent nearly 2 weeks in the hospital & has had 4 surgeries since the shooting.

No one, including the boy, has been charged in the shooting. 

In the lawsuit, Zwerner’s attorneys say all of the defendants knew the boy “had a history of random violence” at school & at home, including an episode the year before, when he “strangled & choked” his kindergarten teacher.

“All Defendants knew that John Doe attacked students & teachers alike & his motivation to injure was directed toward anyone in his path, both in & out of school & was not limited to teachers while at the school,” the lawsuit states.

School officials removed the boy from Richneck & sent him to another school for the remainder of the year, but allowed him to return for first grade in the fall of 2022, the lawsuit states. He was placed on a modified schedule “because he was chasing students around the playground with a belt in an effort to whip them with it,” & was cursing staff & teachers, it says. Under the modified schedule, one of the boy’s parents was required to accompany him during the school day.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The families of Gabby Petito & Brian Laundrie have reached a $3 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after authorities concluded he strangled her during a cross-country trip in August 2021.

The settlement was signed Thursday by Sarasota County Circuit Judge Hunter W. Carroll. A lawyer for Petito’s parents said whatever money is received will go to the Gabby Petito Foundation dedicated to locating missing people & curbing domestic violence.

“The Petito family lost their daughter & they were also denied the opportunity to confront her killer,” said attorney Patrick Reilly. “No amount of money is sufficient to compensate the Petito family for the loss of their daughter, Gabby, at the hands of Brian Laundrie.”

The lawsuit claimed Laundrie was liable for damages because he caused her death. A separate lawsuit, still pending in Sarasota, claims Laundrie’s parents wrongly concealed that he confessed to killing Petito before he returned home in September 2021 to Florida from their trip out West in a converted van.

Christopher & Roberta Laundrie denied that claim.

Petito’s disappearance on the trip & the subsequent discovery of her slain body Sept. 19, 2021 became a national obsession.

His remains were found there in October 2021 & investigators say he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound & left a note confessing to Petito’s slaying.

The Petito family has also filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against police in Moab, Utah, where the couple got into a physical altercation but were allowed by officers to resume their journey despite clear danger signs of domestic violence. 

Petito & Laundrie were engaged to be married. 

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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday ruled in favor of Johnny Depp in his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, vindicating his stance that Heard fabricated claims that she was abused by Depp before and during their brief marriage.

The jury also found in favor of Heard, who said she was defamed by Depp’s lawyer when he called her abuse allegations a hoax.

Jury members found Depp should be awarded $15 million in damages, while Heard should receive $2 million.

The verdicts bring an end to a televised trial that Depp had hoped would help restore his reputation, though it turned into a spectacle of a vicious marriage. Fans — overwhelmingly on Depp’s side — lined up overnight to grab a seat in the courtroom. Spectators who couldn’t get in lined up on the street to cheer Depp and jeer Heard whenever either appeared outside.

Depp sued Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers said he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name.

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On the one year anniversary of his death, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery has filed a lawsuit, alleging there was a conspiracy to protect those responsible for her son's death.

Wanda Cooper filed the civil lawsuit Tuesday in the Southern District of Georgia against the three men charged with murder -- Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael & William Bryan -- as well as more than a dozen law enforcement officers, Glynn County, former Glynn County District Attorney Jackie Johnson & Ware County District Attorney George Barnhill.

Cooper is seeking more than $1 million in damages.

The lawsuit alleges that, following repeated trespasses by various people at a construction site, Glynn County law enforcement authorized the McMichaels, Bryan & others to act as law enforcement within the community.

It also cites a 2019 memorandum from Glynn County Manager Alan Ours which stated the Glynn County Police Department had a culture of "cronyism, outdated policies, lack of appropriate training & loss of State certification." And that there is "an ongoing culture of cover-up, failure to supervise, abuse of power & lack of accountability."

The lawsuit states that the elder McMichael once worked as an investigator for Johnson's office & she personally intervened to try to keep him on the police force after he repeatedly failed to complete state-mandated officer training.

"Johnson instructed law enforcement not to arrest her former colleague, his son or Bryan," the lawsuit states.

Johnson gave the case to neighboring Ware County. But Barnhill also had a prior relationship with Gregory McMichael.

"When this connection was discovered, Barnhill, too, was forced to recuse himself, but not before issuing a letter intended to justify the murder of Ahmaud as "perfectly legal," based on a multitude of demonstrably false statements," the lawsuit reads.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, Justice Department officials told The Associated Press.

The company will plead guilty to three counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and violating federal anti-kickback laws, the officials said. The resolution will be detailed in a bankruptcy court filing in federal court.

The deal does not release any of the company’s executives or owners — members of the wealthy Sackler family — from criminal liability. A criminal investigation is ongoing.

The officials were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The settlement is the highest-profile display yet of the federal government seeking to hold a major drugmaker responsible for an opioid addiction and overdose crisis linked to more than 470,000 deaths in the country since 2000.

As part of the resolution, Purdue will admit that it impeded the Drug Enforcement Administration by falsely representing that it had maintained an effective program to avoid drug diversion and by reporting misleading information to the agency to boost the company’s manufacturing quotas, the officials said.

A Justice Department official said Purdue had been representing to the DEA that it had “robust controls” to avoid opioid diversion but instead had been “disregarding red flags their own systems were sending up.”

Purdue will also admit to violating federal anti-kickback laws by paying doctors, through a speaking program, to induce them to write more prescriptions for the company’s opioids and for using electronic health records software to influence the prescription of pain medication, according to the officials.

Purdue will make a direct payment to the government of $225 million, which is part of a larger $2 billion criminal forfeiture. In addition to that forfeiture, Purdue also faces a $3.54 billion criminal fine, though that money probably will not be fully collected because it will be taken through a bankruptcy, which includes a large number of other creditors. Purdue will also agree to $2.8 billion in damages to resolve its civil liability.

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Uncle Murda teams up with Maino and singer Jay Watts for "Hands Up." Their anger at the injustice of police killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and so many other minorities at the hands of police in America is palpable.

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