Patti LaBelle the R&B singing celeb was accused in Manhattan Supreme Court of screaming obscenities at a toddler, Genevieve Monk, and then throwing a vicious punch at the child’s mother, Roseanna Monk, in a Manhattan apartment house in November 2010.
The New York Daily News reports that Kevin and Roseanna Monk, the girl’s parents, filed the lawsuit against LaBelle with the help of lawyer Sam Davis on Monday, November 14.
Davis, said Genevieve, then 18 months old, was playing around the lobby of a Riverside Blvd. apartment building on the upper West Side on November 11, 2010, when LaBelle, wearing cheap sunglasses and a fur coat, started screaming.
LaBelle said “What are you doing letting your kid run around like that?” Davis said that Roseanna reported that LaBelle then started “screaming at my client, throwing water from a bottle at the mother’s face and the baby’s face.”
Davis said Roseanna immediately gathered up her child in horror and fear. “‘Are you happy that this is what you have done to this baby?!'” Davis said Roseanna Monk asked LaBelle. At that point LaBelle, “tries to take a swing” at his client, Davis said.
LaBelle’s entourage then put her into a black car and the baby violently threw up all over her mother, Davis said.
Davis said the Monks would have been satisfied with an apology from LaBelle, who was a temporary tenant in their building while she appeared in “Fela!” on Broadway.
They decided to sue, he said, when they read about an incident in Houston in which LaBelle’s hairdresser and a bodyguard were accused of assaulting a West Point cadet.
“Violence seems to be part of their road show,” Davis said.
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