Cardi B’s estranged husband, Offset, is being sued by a safety guard amid his mounting tax troubles.
Us Weekly obtained courtroom paperwork on Saturday, November 1, that present safety guard Jim Sanchez filed a go well with alleging assault, battery and intentional affliction of emotional misery towards Offset (actual title Kiari Kendrell Cephus) over the rapper’s disastrous go to to the MedMen LAX dispensary in March. Sanchez alleged that Offset “grew to become hostile, verbally confrontational, and bodily attacked Plaintiff by placing him within the face” when requested to indicate identification. (TMZ initially reported the information.)
Sanchez accused a number of others of becoming a member of in to “additional assault and batter” him through the altercation. The safety guard claimed that he was ultimately taken to an area hospital by paramedics attributable to struggling extreme head and neck ache.
Offset’s consultant beforehand beforehand advised TMZ {that a} dispensary guard rushed him and spit within the hip-hop star’s face through the dispute over displaying identification. His spokesperson denied that Offset initiated the violence.
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In the meantime, Us solely reported on Wednesday, October 29 that Offset was hit by a brand new six-figure lien from the IRS that brings the overall of his unpaid tax invoice to over $2.3 million. The federal government company alleged on October 15 that Offset owed $486,426.35 in taxes for 2023 and beforehand filed a separate lien in 2024 for $1,575,266.73 in taxes for 2022.
In March, the Georgia Division of Income filed a lien of $292,000 for 2021. The unique sum of $167,916 had ballooned attributable to curiosity ($53,000), penalties ($40,000), and assortment charges ($33,000) that the federal government mentioned that Offset owed.
Offset can be battling a $232,000 judgment towards him over an alleged assault at a Florida strip membership, after Leamsy Izquierdo and Humberto Crespo accused him of attacking them on the venue in 2021. In response to courtroom paperwork obtained by Us, Izquierdo and Crespo formally filed to start the gathering course of towards Offset earlier this 12 months.
Offset in September 2025. Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Pictures)
The go well with happened attributable to an alleged confrontation with Offset over his then-wife Cardi B being pelted with champagne by somebody within the membership. Izquierdo and Crespo denied having something to do with spraying the champagne, however they accused Offset of out of the blue strolling into the gang to assault them.
A Miami decide granted the alleged victims’ request for a default judgment late final 12 months, however Offset requested for the judgment to be thrown out in April as a result of he claimed to have by no means obtained needed authorized paperwork. A listening to will happen in February 2026.
Cardi B filed for divorce from Offset in August 2024 after six years of marriage. The 2 beforehand cut up in 2018 however later reconciled. They share three kids: Kulture Kiari Cephus, 7, son Wave, 4, and daughter Blossom, 1. (Offset additionally has three different kids from earlier relationships.)
Cardi B and Offset have doted over their little ones via the years. “I’m sooo in love with my youngster. It makes me wanna cry. I don’t know what I did proper for God to bless me with this stunning, loving child,” the “Bodak Yellow” rapper gushed by way of Twitter in August 2018, one month after […]
“[The divorce] has been a very long time coming and is amicable,” Cardi B’s spokesperson advised Us on the time.
Throughout an October look on the “Child, This Is Keke Palmer” podcast, Offset admitted to having regrets in regards to the demise of his marriage.
“I ought to have revered her far more. I made dangerous selections, like stepping out,” Offset advised host Keke Palmer. “Gotta take that on the chin. When she left, I needed to take that on the chin. … We bought a lot, our children, to reside for. I used to be being egocentric, and I can say that as a person.”
Cardi B went public together with her new boyfriend, Stefon Diggs, in June and subsequently denied that they’d cut up up three months later. The couple predict their first child collectively.
