Remember when Patti LaBelle’s bodyguards beat the heck out of that 23-year-old West Point cadet and he sued the singer? Wellllllll Patti ain’t having it! The R&B diva is countersuing West Point cadet Richard King, who says LaBelle ordered her bodyguards to beat him up outside a Houston airport terminal this spring.
“King directed profane and racial slurs towards LaBelle. When LaBelle’s son (Zuri Edwards) heard the profanity and racial epithets, he informed King that the woman in the limousine was his mother,” the suit said. “Without warning or provocation, King violently and deliberately punched Edwards in the face.”
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