{"id":73609,"date":"2025-10-14T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73609\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:53:08","slug":"busta-rhymes-files-countersuit-against-ex-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73609\/","title":{"rendered":"Busta Rhymes Files Countersuit Against Ex-Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBusta Rhymes<\/a> has countersued his former assistant who accused the rapper of punching him<\/a> while at work.<\/p>\n

\n\tRhymes, born Trevor Smith Jr., was arrested in Brooklyn back in January on third-degree assault charges after allegedly striking then-assistant Dashiel Gables in the face. Gables then filed a federal lawsuit this summer accusing Rhymes of physical assault and other workplace abuses.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Billboard<\/a>, Smith\u2019s attorney Patrick Butler denied that the artist battered Gables in the counterclaim docketed on Monday (Oct. 13) in federal court. The lawyer claimed the former assistant \u201cknew the statements were false, or acted with reckless disregard for the truth, including by fabricating allegations of criminal conduct and violence, omitting exculpatory facts and deliberately ignoring contrary evidence.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe countersuit also alleges that Gables shared his previous lawsuit with the media and that Smith\u2019s reputation has been damaged by the defamatory claims, resulting in the rapper being dropped from two advertising campaigns.<\/p>\n

\n\tMark A. Panzavecchia, a lawyer representing Gables, responded to the filing in statement to Rolling Stone. \u201cThere is absolutely no basis for the counterclaims and we stand by our client and his lawsuit,\u201d said Panzavecchia. \u201cThe evidence will corroborate our account of the events.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGables\u2019 lawsuit from earlier this year claimed that Smith \u201croutinely degraded, screamed at, and made unreasonable demands of Plaintiff and other employees,\u201d and allegedly spit in their faces, smacked the back of their heads, and grabbed their clothes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe former assistant claimed that in January, Smith yelled at him after Gables answered a phone call from his own daughter. Rhymes then allegedly punched Gables several times, which \u201cconstructively terminated Plaintiff\u2019s employment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a previous statement to\u00a0the Guardian<\/a>, Smith denied the allegations stated in Gables\u2019 lawsuit. \u201cI completely and categorically deny these allegations. For a very brief period, Dashiel assisted me, but it did not work out,\u2019\u201d Rhymes said at the time. \u201cApparently, Dashiel has decided to respond to being let go by manufacturing claims against me in an attempt to attack and damage my reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis article was updated on Oct. 14 at 12:03 a.m. to include a statement from Dashiel Gables\u2019 attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Busta Rhymes has countersued his former assistant who accused the rapper of punching him while at work. Rhymes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1888,7391,47491,146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-73609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-busta-rhymes","9":"tag-controversy","10":"tag-courts-and-crime","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}