In the wake of Kanye West’s controversial “Drink Champs” interview, the family of George Floyd has announced plans to sue West for $250 million.
Roxie Washington, the mother of Floyd’s 7-year-old daughter Gianna, said Tuesday that she has hired a legal team to go after Ye, his business partners, and his associates for harassment, misappropriation, defamation, and infliction of emotional distress.
The family’s attorneys have also sent a cease and desist letter to Kanye following the interview where he falsely claimed that Floyd died of fentanyl consumption rather than being suffocated by a police officer’s knee.
The Floyd family has called Kanye’s allegations “blatantly false” and “malicious,” and say that Gianna is being “re-traumatized” by his comments, which they say are “creating an unsafe and unhealthy environment for her.”
