Katt Williams just can’t lose in 2024. After kicking off this crazy year of hate with his now-infamous interview with Shannon Sharpe on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast, the “American Hustle” comedian is now dodging a lawsuit that could have cost him millions of dollars.
Originally filed in August 2016, Angelina Triplett-Hill claimed Williams assaulted her on the set of a movie in 2014. He allegedly hit her in the face several times, leading to her falling on her face and losing consciousness, according to the lawsuit.
Triplett-Hill claims that she was Williams’ personal assistant at the time of the alleged assault. Initially, she was awarded a substantial default judgment worth $1.7 million since the controversial comedian ignored the case and did not appear in court to defend himself. But the tables have now turned.
In a recent report from Vibe, Williams’ attorney, Jeremiah Reynolds, was able to convince the judge to throw out the judgment, leading to the suit going to trial.
Along with arguing that there were no hospital records or police reports to prove that Triplett-Hill was being truthful about her alleged injuries, Reynolds was also able to bring to court a woman who is his actual personal assistant, leading to another win for Williams in 2024.
In a statement, Reynolds said, “Katt said he did nothing wrong and would never pay the woman a cent. He accepted the risks and understood that the plaintiff would try to play on sympathy at trial to ask for even more money.”
He added, “At trial, we argued that the plaintiff had created a false narrative of working for Katt as his assistant and faked the incident. The plaintiff tried to play on the jurors’ emotions, supposed ‘power imbalances,’ and did everything she could to try to bring in irrelevant and prejudicial evidence about Katt. Judge Snyder excluded it all.”
Amid this legal win, Williams has continued to troll Sean “Diddy” Combs about his myriad of legal troubles after his “prophetic” revelations about the music mogul during his January interview with Sharpe.
In September, in a since-expired post on his Instagram story, he posted a clip from “Bad Boys II” in which Martin Lawrence’s character Marcus tells Will Smith’s character Mike “his ass still hurts” after three days of activity, a reference to Diddy’s alleged “freak-offs.”
Earlier this month, during a comedy show, he also made jokes about Diddy’s massive stash of baby oil, saying, “Not 1,000 bottles of baby oil, Jesus! It ain’t that much ashy in the world. Everybody know that. P. Diddy dumb a** lawyer said, ‘He probably got it at Costco.’ Costco hit right back: ‘We don’t even sell baby oil.’”