French Montana is going through a lawsuit after two businessmen have accused him of operating off with their watch.
According to TMZJusto Obiang and Samir Gato filed the lawsuit on Thursday (October 16) after claiming to have met Montana (actual identify Karim Kharbouch) in 2015. In 2024, the group deliberate to satisfy in Egypt to commerce watches, however in line with Obiang and Gato, Montana refused to.
The rapper allegedly requested to borrow their $1 million watch, insuring that it could be returned after Paris Fashion Week, however to no avail. But Montana is alleged to haven’t left the boys hanging, giving them a watch as collateral and claiming that it was value $1 million.
Now, Obiang and Gato are claiming that the watch is counterfeit and that Montana has dodged their continued efforts to retrieve their watch. In their lawsuit, the boys search $1 million in damages and are suing Montana for wrongful enrichment, conversion and deceptive misrepresentation.
Montana’s lawyer, Steve Haddad, mentioned his shopper denies the accusations and plans to countersue. The rapper allegedly accepted Obiang and Gato’s watch as fee after being “convinced” by Obiang to go to Egypt for promotional causes.
Meanwhile, Montana had a giant win this week regarding a pattern trial involving his 2013 tune “Ain’t Worried About Nothing.” Producer Eddie Lee Richardson had alleged that the beat for the tune was pulled from his observe “Hood Pushin’ Weight.” On a “technical” choice, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dominated that Richardson did not show his case, making Montana the victor.
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