Justin Bieber: Settles out-of-court
The lawsuit was filed in a Miami-Dade County circuit courtroom but the out-of-court settlement ends it, allowing Bieber to tick off one of his many legal issues. The settlement was also confirmed by Mark DiCowden, the lawyer for photographer Jeffrey Binion.
Binion claimed after he took a photograph of Bieber outside of The Hit Factory, a Miami recording studio, on June 5 of 2013, he was attacked by Bieber’s bodyguards. The photographer claimed Bieber ordered the four guards to harm him and take away his equipment.
At the time he launched the lawsuit on behalf of his client, Binion’s lawyer had some harsh words for Bieber.
“Justin Bieber is now an adult, and he should act like one,” he said. “He needs to learn that he cannot use bodyguards as weapons to harm innocent people. Bieber’s violent behavior toward photographers must end, and he should take responsibility for his actions.”
Bieber legal issues around world
Bieber, 21, has had other legal run-ins, some of them still before courts. They often revolve around the conduct of himself and his bodyguards. There have been incidents, some in which charges have been laid, in London, Toronto, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Miami.
And elsewhere.
Recently a judge in Argentina issued a warrant for his arrest over an occurrence involving his bodyguards and a photographer in Buenos Aires in 2013. It does not seem likely he can be taken into custody and forced to go there and face the charges, however.
An incident in Miami Beach involved a photographer named Manuel Muñoz, who claims after taking photos of Bieber outside a nightclub in 2014, one of the singer’s bodyguards chased and cornered him in a Subway, locking the door and hitting him and taking his camera’s memory card. He, too, has filed a lawsuit, but there are differences between what he wrote in the police report and what he claimed in the lawsuit.
At the time charges were filed Bieber lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said the Munoz lawsuit, which has neither been settled or gone to court as yet, and other similar lawsuits filed against Bieber, are not legitimate.
“This new lawsuit filed by a paparazzo is yet another shakedown for money,” Weitzman told TMZ at the time. “The paparazzo admits that Justin was not present at the alleged ‘assault.’ The paparazzo told the police he had only scratched his knee when he was allegedly tripped, but now claims he was beat up. There are no damages.”
Meanwhile, Bieber is expected in Las Vegas on May 2 to be part of the group accompanying boxer Floyd Mayweather to the ring for his superfight with Manny Pacquiao. Bieber has escorted Mayweather to the ring on at least one occasion in the past.
