Judge Awards Damages Of $36M In Bobbi Kristina Death Case
Bobbi Kristina’s estate lawyers said on Thursday a judge in Atlanta ordered her partner, Nick Gordon, to pay $36 million in a wrongful death case. In September, Fulton County Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford ruled that Gordon repeatedly failed to meet court deadlines in the civil suit.
His order said that means the conservator of her estate wins by default. Bedford on Thursday awarded damages of $36,250,000. Attorney David Ware said in a statement that “There was an urgent need, in my mind, to get justice for Bobbi Kristina Brown and that’s why I took the case. We intend to pursue, with all vigor, the full collection of the judgment. We hope that in some small way this will allow Krissy’s family to continue their quest for peace.”
The young woman’s family blamed Gordon, accusing him in the lawsuit of giving Brown a “toxic cocktail” before putting her face-down in the water. Gordon, an orphan three years older whom Houston had raised as her own, has not been charged with a crime.
Gordon wasn’t in court Thursday and did not have an attorney in the civil case, however a former lawyer for Gordon said in a statement late Thursday that the court based its decision on only one side of the case. Investigators with the medical examiner’s office were unable to determine exactly how Brown had died.
An autopsy revealed she had morphine, cocaine, alcohol and prescription drugs in her body but the medical examiner couldn’t determine if she killed herself, if someone else killed her or if her death was accidental. Dontaye Carter, a spokesman for Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard, said in an email Thursday that Brown’s death is still under investigation.
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