A lawyer for French Montana has responded to a $50,000 lawsuit from an alleged music video extra, denying the claims and calling it an “egregious profit play and publicity stunt.”
Carl Leon, who says he was an extra during a video shoot back in January, claims that the rapper and his associates did not do enough to prevent the injury of at least 10 people. In a statement to, Montana’s attorney denies the allegations and slams Leon’s claims as “profit play and a publicity stunt.”filed Monday comes several months after people were injured following a shooting at a restaurant while Montana was present.
Leon claims that the rapper was filming a video for “Igloo” at a first location when an “altercation and robbery” allegedly broke out, leading the musician to move the shoot to a restaurant known as “the Licking.” Leon’s attorneys claim that given the previous incident and the status of Montana and Rob40, who’s featured on the song, it was “reasonable to anticipate” possible criminal activity at the filming.
Having the permit “would have ensured that proper police presence and security would be present on the Subject Property in order to prevent or otherwise deter violence and/or other types of criminal activity,” according to the complaint.denied Leon’s allegations, saying that he “was never invited to the restaurant” the night of the shooting and claiming the plaintiff had ulterior motives to sue.
“His interest in litigation is solely to exploit and benefit financially from it, and his re-imagining of his invitation and current statements are simply an egregious profit play and publicity stunt,” Montana’s lawyer Ted Anastasiou says. “Beyond rejecting Mr. Leon and his counsel’s claims, we implore them to take a good, long look in the mirror and ask whether their loved ones would respect them for trying to make a buck by blatantly lying.
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