{"id":367614,"date":"2026-08-10T17:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367614\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:16:16","slug":"former-onlyfans-model-courtney-clenney-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-stabbing-death-of-boyfriend-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367614\/","title":{"rendered":"Former OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney pleads guilty to manslaughter in stabbing death of boyfriend in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former OnlyFans model who was accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/stabbing\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stabbing<\/a> her boyfriend to death inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami<\/a> apartment in 2022 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/onlyfans-model-courtney-clenney-plea-deal-reached\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accepted a plea deal<\/a> and will spend the next several years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Clenney appeared inside a Miami courtroom on Monday morning where she accepted the deal, which included her pleading guilty to manslaughter with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p>She had previously been charged with second-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the plea agreement, Clenney is expected to spend 6 years in prison followed by 5 years of probation. Upon her release, she will have to undergo a mental health evaluation and treatment as well as a substance abuse evaluation and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Clenney will not be allowed to benefit financially from this case.<\/p>\n<p>This deal comes after the stabbing death of Christian Obumseli in April 2022. Days after he was killed, Clenney was arrested in Hawaii and charged with second-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/christian-toby-obumseli-death-instagram-model-courtney-clenney-self-defense-attorney\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">claimed it was self-defense because he was abusive<\/a>. Her attorney also previously claimed she threw the knife to protect herself. However, the attorney for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/christian-obumseli-fatal-stabbing-victim-edgewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Obumseli&#8217;s family<\/a> said that couldn&#8217;t have been true.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/couple.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"couple.jpg \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Christian Toby Obumseli and Courtney Clenney<\/p>\n<p>                https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/christianvstoby\/<\/p>\n<p>Both attorneys addressed those claims back in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It shows the court that our client is in fact credible, her self-defense is credible, and the action she took that night was necessary to save her own life,&#8221; Clenney&#8217;s attorney Frank Prieto said.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Larry Handfield disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s inconsistent with common sense,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s no way that you would, if you throw a knife, that the knife is going to land so deep in a downward position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/courtney-clenney-case-parents-of-onlyfans-model-booked-into-miami-dade-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Clenney&#8217;s parents were previously charged<\/a> with illegally hacking into Obumseli&#8217;s computer, but those charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Video of a previous confrontation between Obumseli and Clenney months before his death was shown in court, and evidence released since Clenney&#8217;s arrest painted a troubling relationship between the two.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of July, Clenney&#8217;s lawyers announced a plea agreement was reached as the case was moving closer to a trial.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the attorney for Obumseli&#8217;s family released a statement in response to the deal, saying in part, &#8220;Pleading guilty and accepting full responsibility will begin the process of bringing closure to a very tragic life-changing event for the Obumseli family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former OnlyFans model who was accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death inside a Miami apartment in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[87435,123,125,124,1064,807,6006,1934],"class_list":["post-367614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-deadly-stabbing","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-south-florida","tag-stabbing","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367614","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=367614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}