The ridiculous Usher/herpes saga continues.
The R&B singer was just slapped with a (totally frivolous) lawsuit by three people–one man and two women–who all claim they had sex with him (at different times) back in 2012.
Celebrity attorney Lisa Bloom is representing the individuals. Bloom is best known for being Gloria Allred’s daughter and for recently representing Kathy Griffin during the whole bloody Trump head publicity stunt.
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On Monday, Bloom tweeted:
I will be doing a New York press conference Monday morning regarding a new case I’m filing against Usher. Here are the details. pic.twitter.com/MNXWyETXOJ
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) August 4, 2017
At the press conference, a woman named Quantasia Sharpton, who is not actually a part of the B.S. lawsuit but who is apparently tagging along for the ride, appeared with Bloom.
Sharpton said she was celebrating her 19th birthday at an Usher concert when she was contacted by Usher’s security. Though she later testing negative for herpes, she still “feels violated.”
Of the three people actually suing Usher, Bloom says only one of them has tested positive for herpes, but that doesn’t matter. The fact that Usher may not have disclosed whether he had an STD before allegedly hooking up with them is the issue.
“No one in America, not even a popular celebrity, is above the law,” Bloom said. “And everyone, even ordinary people who find themselves swept away by a superstar, has the legal right to be respected, which includes being warned about STDs.”
Bloom went on to say she doesn’t personally know if Usher has herpes, but she hopes, for everyone’s sake, that he doesn’t. (Either way, she’s still getting paid for taking on the case.)
“We hope the reports are not true,” she stated. “We hope that Mr. Raymond is negative and that this can all be cleared up quickly. We hope that he has not knowingly endangered his sex partners.”
Usher’s rep has declined to comment on the allegations.
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Ummmm Yeah
Or maybe he had sex with the women, who then passed it on to the other man.
Kangol
Well, where does this end? Does it stop with herpes, or can someone now be sued for passing on hep B or C, or an aggressive form of syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, etc.? Or zika, which lives in male sperm…? This seems like a gold rush against Usher, though I do agree that anyone with a temporary or chronic STI/STD who knows s/he has it should let potential sex partners know. But I don’t agree with these lawsuits and the criminalization of sex.
jjose712
Sorry, but i don’t understand why the lawsuit is ridiculous. Frankly, given how much americans like to solve their problems in court i see way more ridiculous lawsuits all over the years.
Passing an illness when you are concious that you are expossing others to that illness is a serious thing, so what it matters here if it’s true or not.
Frankly Usher doesn’t seem one of those celebrities who could care less about others, but you never know
1898
it’s ridiculous because the attorney admits she doesn’t know whether usher is infected or not. how can you accuse someone of knowingly infecting someone else if you don’t know whether or not the person is infected in the first place?
dean089
But that just emphasizes jjose712’s point. We have become a ridiculously litigious society where anything and everything goes to court whether it should or not. So why is this case any more frivolous than any of the other thousands of frivolous lawsuits that are filed every year?
barkomatic
What a shamefully frivolous lawsuit. Not only don’t some of the defendants even have herpes, they aren’t even sure that Usher has it or if he did at the time they had allegedly had sex. Like everyone who engages in consensual sex, they need to take responsibility for their actions and that includes any potential consequences of those decisions.
This case has holes all through it, clearly the defendants are hoping for a settlement to stop the shaming. I hope Usher stands his ground on this one.
Rex Huskey
is the man Justin Bieber?
seaguy
LOL Usher was his mentor or the one who discovered Bieber.
Billy Budd
Such a lot of nonsense. Only fatal or disabling diseases should be a reason for law suits AND their claims seem to be unjustified. They are making a lot of fuss and putting it on the press in order to get more money and get it faster.
Bob LaBlah
I doubt if Usher would have shelled out $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a hairdresser back in 2012 if he didnt have something to hide. It seems VERY hard to believe Usher had sex with that baby calf (Quantasia Sharpton) who has admitted she and Usher didnt “quite” have sex. What the hell that’s suppose to mean beats the shit out of me.
Jack Meoff
Has their been any indication or gossip in the past about Usher being bi? This is the first I’ve heard his name associated with sex with men.
DCguy
Under the law it isn’t frivolous. The laws states if you have an STD and fail to disclose it you are in violation.
This is the result of the original laws that came out to penalize people who didn’t disclose their HIV status and I believe in Ca. it is basically about diseases that can’t be cured.
Usher has settled suits before.
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