Lawyer Sues Rapper Post Malone For Abusing His Girlfriend
A lawyer has sued Post Malone for allegedly abusing his ex-girlfriend Ashlen Diaz and claims he has enough evidence to show in court.
Radar Online has obtained court documents that confirm that a company named Martorell Law has filed a lawsuit against both the singer and his former partner of three years. Initially, Martorell Law had assisted the former partner in legal negotiations regarding her palimony.
After the couple’s separation in 2018, Diaz requested financial compensation for their relationship, despite not being married to Post. She also promised her legal team a percentage of the settlement.
According to the lawsuit filed by Martorell last year, Diaz was allegedly coerced into accepting an out-of-court settlement that excluded the involvement of the law firm.
In response to this, Martorell has now stated that they will present substantial and detailed evidence, including images and text messages, to demonstrate Post Malone’s significant influence in Diaz’s life. The purpose of this evidence is to prove that she was manipulated into terminating her relationship with the law firm and reaching an agreement with him privately.
Post Malone has urged that the firm’s motion for damages be dismissed because it is “frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation.” The 28-year-old is accused of abusing his ex both emotionally and physically, and Martorell claims that he “pressured and coerced Diaz” into releasing her attorney.
“Coercion and pressure of one’s romantic partner combined with physical and emotional abuse in violation of the Penal Code, in an effort to deprive that person of competent legal counsel and with the knowledge that the actor is also depriving legal counsel of its attorneys’ fee, constitutes an independent wrongful act,” the motion reads.
“These facts were what the underlying case would have been all about — a palimony dispute wherein this pattern of abuse and imbalance of power was used to suppress Ms. Diaz literally physically and emotionally, only to leave her powerless and money-less after he was caught red-handed on a yacht by TMZ with another woman in the midst of an alleged unfaithful tryst.
“Plaintiff’s counsel has, to date, avoided airing out these salacious facts based upon their professionalism and respect for the court process, but given Defendant Post’s counsel’s insistence within pleadings on falsely painting this case as one where Defendant Post lacked the ability to control Ms. Diaz, if the Court finds it necessary for these further specific allegations and the photographic and text evidence thereof to be asserted in pleadings.”
Martorell also argued: “It simply cannot be the case that one of the world’s most powerful celebrities with a documented history of physical and emotional abuse towards his romantic partner uses his power and money to deprive her of legal representation and in doing so, blatantly interferes with a contingency fee agreement robbing her attorney from being paid and gets away with it scot-free.”
Founding partner Eduardo Martorell added: “During the course of my representation of Ms. Diaz, Ms. Diaz informed me that she suffered from acts of domestic abuse during her dating relationship with Defendant Post, which I now believe to be related to Ms. Diaz’s breach of the contingency fee agreement. Ms. Diaz provided me with photographs and text messages with Defendant Post, and information relating to Defendant Post’s abuse.”
