Lil Wayne is being sued by his former bodyguard Carlos Christian, who claims the rapper ‘punched’ him and ‘threatened him with a gun’.
Christian alleges that the hip hop star, 41, brandished a semiautomatic rifle and ‘threatened to shoot him’ during an altercation in December 2021, according to legal documents obtained by TMZ.
The guard also claims the hitmaker, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., ‘punched him in the ear’ during the incident, which took place at Wayne’s Hidden Hills, CA home.
Christian called the cops at the time and accused Wayne of threatening him with an AR-15, but sources close to the musician denied the incident took place and claimed Wayne didn’t even own a gun.
Lil Wayne is being sued by his former bodyguard Carlos Christian, who claims the rapper ‘punched’ him and ‘threatened him with a gun’; Wayne pictured in September
The guard reportedly took the gun threat seriously, as Wayne previously spent time in prison for weapons charges.
Christian claims he has incurred medical expenses, lost wages, and suffered emotional distress due to the alleged altercation and is looking for compensatory and punitive damages.
At the time of the alleged incident deputies responded to a call about an assault with a deadly weapon at a Hidden Hills, California home on at around 1.40pm.
When they arrived, deputies told DailyMail.com, a Hispanic male adult working as a security guard said he had a verbal altercation that turned physical with the black male resident.
A dispute ensued when Wayne accused the guard of taking photos of him and leaking them to the media, TMZ reported at the time.
The guard claims Wayne told him to leave the house during the dispute, but the guard went to the bathroom first, and Wayne pulled out an AR-15.
At that point, the guard claims, he fled the house to the gated community’s guard shack and called the police.
But when the police went to speak to the rapper, he was no longer at his $15.4 million home he bought in April.
At the time sources told TMZ Wayne strongly denied the accusation and said he does not own a gun.
According to the publication, sheriff’s deputies had doubts about the guard’s story, as they noted he did not have marks on his body or injuries from the alleged altercation, and told police he did not want to press charges against the rapper.
Christian alleges that Wayne, 41, brandished a semiautomatic rifle and ‘threatened to shoot him’ during an altercation in December 2021, according to legal documents obtained by TMZ; seen in 2023
The bodyguard also claims the hitmaker ‘punched him in the ear’ during the incident, which took place at Wayne’s Hidden Hills, CA home; seen in 2021
Christian called the cops at the time of the incident, but sources close to the musician denied the altercation took place and claimed Wayne didn’t even own a gun; seen in 2023
Wayne was previously arrested in 2019 on gun charges, following a prior felony gun conviction in 2009. In 2021, President Donald Trump pardoned him of the charges
Wayne was previously arrested in December 2019, and charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition.
He could have faced 10 years in prison for illegally owning a .45-caliber handgun – which he was banned from possessing because of a weapons conviction in New York more than a decade ago.
The rapper already had a felony gun conviction dating back to 2009.
He was sentenced to eight months in a New York prison for that offense, and convicted felons are subsequently barred under federal law from possessing firearms.
However, on his final day in office in January 2021, President Donald Trump pardoned Lil Wayne of the charges.
