{"id":622813,"date":"2026-04-23T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622813\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:27:12","slug":"brian-mcknight-sues-ex-wife-and-son-over-allegations-about-his-late-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622813\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian McKnight Sues Ex-Wife and Son Over Allegations About His Late Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260422_1a6c9558b0c5454c9f56432f72c26885\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6fc8aea7-47a8-46dd-b701-2154e47347f1\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1a6c9558b0c5454c9f56432f72c26885_md.jpg\" alt=\"Brian McKnight getty 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/brian-mcknight\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian McKnight<\/a> says his ex-wife, one of his sons, some bloggers, and a newspaper rolled out a coordinated assault on his reputation to make money from &#8220;malicious character assassination&#8221; &#8230; at least according to a new lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary singer filed a lawsuit claiming he&#8217;s the victim of a &#8220;shockingly dishonest&#8221; and &#8220;sensational but false narrative&#8221; alleging he abandoned his kids and refused to tell his dying son Niko he loved him.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260422_bd82c6e6a2c04f368499cbae6c73ea9b\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6fc8aea7-47a8-46dd-b701-2154e47347f1\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bd82c6e6a2c04f368499cbae6c73ea9b_md.jpg\" alt=\"Brian McKnight Jr and Brian McKnight getty 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Brian says the false narrative was cooked up by his ex-wife, Julie McKnight, and he says it&#8217;s been peddled by his son Brian Jr., bloggers Marc Lamont Hill and Tasha K, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/05\/parents\/brian-mcknights-ex-blasts-his-heartbreaking-choice-not-to-tell-dying-son-i-love-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the alleged defamatory claims about his last moments with Niko, Brian also claims Tasha K falsely went online and claimed he was a cheater who had sex with a minor.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260422_de4a2f2db635490a9eeb4ed395205898\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6fc8aea7-47a8-46dd-b701-2154e47347f1\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/de4a2f2db635490a9eeb4ed395205898_md.jpg\" alt=\"brian and julie mcknight 2000 getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian claims his reputation, career and his family are being negatively impacted by the alleged lies &#8230; and he says the &#8220;relentless and persistent assault upon his character&#8221; gave him no choice but to take legal action.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s seeking damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian McKnight says his ex-wife, one of his sons, some bloggers, and a newspaper rolled out a coordinated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-622813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}