Chris Brown was found liable by a Los Angeles jury Tuesday for $13 million in the gruesome case of a dog that mauled and disfigured his housekeeper at his home in 2020.
At the end of a two-week trial, the verdict went strongly in favor of Maria Avila, who was viciously attacked by Hades, a 200-pound Caucasian shepherd owned by Brown, while emptying trash outside the singer’s Tarzana, California house.
Billboard was first to report the verdict Tuesday. According to what her attorney, Michael C. Murphy Jr., told the publication, Brown and his company Black Pyramid LLC are on the hook to pay $12.9 million to Maria Avila for negligence. That’s not all they owe. Avila’s sister, Patricia Avila, who was also on the job when the mauling took place, was awarded $885,000 for emotional distress, and Maria Avila ’s husband, Oscar Olivo, was separately awarded $50,000.
Murphy and a rep for Brown did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment. Murphy told Billboard, “After more than five years of litigating against Chris Brown, we are thrilled that we were able to get justice for our client, Patricia. We are so happy for her and her family after everything they went through on that horrible day. It was an honor to represent her.”
