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Busta Rhymes ordered to pay damages in assault case
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 16 October 2009
Busta Rhymes has been order to pay $75,000 in damages to a man who accused the rapper and one of his bodyguards of assaulting him at a concert in 2003. Alex Duncan told the court that the two men had sprayed water on him and then beaten him during the show at SUNY in Albany, causing psychological damage including nightmares.
Duncan said: “I wanted something to come out of it. I don’t even go to parties anymore, because there’s always someone asking, ‘What happened to that Busta Rhymes case?'”.
According to the New York Post, neither the rapper nor his lawyer appeared at the hearing.
