{"id":313205,"date":"2026-06-19T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313205\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:58:10","slug":"elf-actor-faizon-love-in-court-for-first-appearance-since-florida-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313205\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Elf&#8217; actor Faizon Love in court for first appearance since Florida arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cElf\u201d actor Faizon Love is making his first appearance in a Florida courtroom Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/17\/us-news\/elf-actor-faizon-love-busted-in-florida\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after being busted on an outstanding warrant.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love, 58, is facing two contempt of court charges stemming from a child support case, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/17\/faizon-love-said-he-cannot-afford-to-pay-child-support\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to TMZ<\/a>, which reported his ex, Tiffany Lee, claims he\u2019s $250,000 in arrears.<\/p>\n<p>Love has claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/18\/celebrity-news\/elf-star-faizon-love-insisted-he-could-not-afford-child-support-payment-ahead-of-arrest\/?utm_campaign=pagesix&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poverty as his reason for the alleged nonpayment<\/a>, the outlet reported, saying he earned just $13,000 in gross income over the last five years and $0 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39728741\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/faizon-love-backstage-wild-n-131401125.jpg\" alt=\"Faizon Love backstage during the Wild 'N Out Live: The Final Lap Tour.\" class=\"wp-image-39728741\"  \/>\u201cElf\u201d actor Faizon Love claimed he can\u2019t pay child support because he is in poverty. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39728768\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fellas-please-careful-lay-kids-131401122.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Tiffany Tichera Lee.\" class=\"wp-image-39728768\"  \/>Faizon\u2019s ex, Tiffany Lee, claims he\u2019s $250,000 in arrears, according to a report. faizonlove\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFriday\u201d actor was cuffed Tuesday and is being held without bond at Hillsborough County Jail, appearing in a mugshot looking haggard and stone-faced after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Love has had several prior run-ins with law enforcement, including several arrests for assault.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor for a caught-on-camera assault of a valet at the John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Ohio, for which he was fined $500 and handed a 180-day suspended jail sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Last year he was accused of felony assault after allegedly hurling a credit card machine at the head of a San Diego hotel clerk after she told him the hotel couldn\u2019t provide him with the room he had booked.<\/p>\n<p>Love has appeared in dozens of movies including \u201cThe Replacements\u201d and \u201cCouples Retreat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cElf\u201d actor Faizon Love is making his first appearance in a Florida courtroom Friday after being busted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23924,13791,130394,265,28,30,29,4278],"class_list":["post-313205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-actors","tag-child-support","tag-christmas-movies","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}