RHOA Star Angela Oakley’s Husband Charles Oakley Ordered to Pay $642K to Madison Sq. Backyard!
Actual Housewives of Atlanta star Angela Oakley’s husband, NBA legend Charles Oakley, has been ordered to pay greater than $642,000 in authorized charges to Madison Sq. Backyard after a decide dominated he deleted key textual content messages throughout his ongoing court docket battle with the sector — the identical one tied to his explosive 2017 ejection.
Based on newly filed court docket paperwork, the 61-year-old former New York Knicks star is being held answerable for racking up huge lawyer prices after failing to protect subpoenaed messages.
“On or round July 10, 2024, [Oakley’s] counsel found that every one textual content messages despatched to or from [his] cellphone previous to February 2022 had been deleted,” the submitting states, including that Charles “had not ever try[ed] to protect, acquire, picture, or copy [his] private gadgets.” Madison Sq. Backyard’s authorized group — which included Randy Mastro, now working for New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams’ administration — billed $1,709 an hour, accusing Charles of sending them on a pricey “wild goose chase.”
MSG initially demanded $1.5 million in sanctions, however Choose Robyn Tarnofsky in the end lowered the quantity to $642,337.65 in attorneys’ charges and prices.
Charles Oakley’s lawyer, Valdi Licul, fired again, insisting the ruling remains to be extreme. “The court docket denied most of Madison Sq. Backyard’s wildly inflated price request,” Valdi mentioned in a press release. “However, we disagree that MSG is entitled to any restoration and can promptly search to enchantment.” The authorized battle stems from Charles’ headline-making removing from Madison Sq. Backyard in February 2017, when he was bodily escorted out throughout a Knicks recreation.
Charles was arrested, although felony expenses had been later dropped. He then sued MSG and proprietor James Dolan for defamation after James publicly advised Charles Oakley had a ingesting downside.
“He’s each bodily and verbally abusive. He could have an issue with alcohol; we don’t know, proper?” James mentioned on the time — a press release that fueled Charles’ lawsuit, which was dismissed in 2020. Charles has lengthy claimed he was unfairly focused by James Dolan.
“They’ve acquired to apologize,” he informed the Associated Press final 12 months, revealing James’ attorneys invited him again to a Knicks recreation — a proposal he refused. “Can [Dolan] be man sufficient to say errors occur, and he made one?”
Regardless of shedding the newest court docket ruling, Charles Oakley says the combat isn’t over.
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Olivia Davis is a Workers Author at All About The Tea. Olivia’s hobbies embrace binging Netflix sequence, and watching Housewives on Bravo. She graduated from San Francisco State College with a level in Historical past.
