{"id":232781,"date":"2025-10-18T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232781\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:39:08","slug":"french-montana-sued-for-allegedly-refusing-to-return-million-dollar-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232781\/","title":{"rendered":"French Montana Sued for Allegedly Refusing to Return Million-Dollar Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          French Montana<br \/>\n                          Accused of Stealing $1M Watch &#8230;<br \/>\n                          Rapper Refutes Allegations<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published October 17, 2025 4:11 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251017_115cccf5aef545da9c8839650fa22a9f\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f3040270-b0aa-45b2-9da9-451da723c970\" 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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/115cccf5aef545da9c8839650fa22a9f_md.jpg\" alt=\"french montana main getty 1\" 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\/french-montana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">French Montana<\/a> might not have time for a lawsuit right now &#8230; but, two men from Switzerland don&#8217;t care &#8212; &#8217;cause they say he stole their watch!<\/p>\n<p>Justo Obiang and Samir Gato filed the suit against French on Thursday &#8230; claiming they met the rapper after a 2015 show in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The two men say they stayed in contact over the years &#8230; and, in 2024, Obiang and Gato say they made plans to meet up with French in Egypt. Before Montana got there, Obiang and Gato claim he asked to trade watches with Obiang &#8212; who refused.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251017_970cfe2a3ef147238b00c43d350aaada\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f3040270-b0aa-45b2-9da9-451da723c970\" 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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/970cfe2a3ef147238b00c43d350aaada_md.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Mille RM-59-01 alleged counterfeit watch watch handout wm swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Obiang and Gato say they wouldn&#8217;t trade watches with Montana, they claim French asked to borrow it for 30 days for Paris Fashion Week, but he promised to return it. They say French even gave them a watch he said was worth more than $1 million as collateral.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Obiang and Gato say they never got the watch back despite repeated attempts &#8230; and, they&#8217;re also alleging the watch French gave them as collateral is actually counterfeit.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251017_01f654f32ef14f53aa48caec9b703c4b\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f3040270-b0aa-45b2-9da9-451da723c970\" 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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01f654f32ef14f53aa48caec9b703c4b_md.jpg\" alt=\"french montana sub getty swipe 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The watch Obiang and Gato claim they gave Montana is now actually worth over $1 million &#8230; and, they&#8217;re suing French for fraudulent misrepresentation, conversion, unjust enrichment and more. Obiang and Gato are asking for at least $1 million in damages<\/p>\n<p>Montana&#8217;s attorney Steve Haddad tells TMZ &#8230; these claims are untrue and he plans to countersue Obiang and Gato.<\/p>\n<p>Montana claims he went to Egypt because Justo convinced him to go, where he did multiple days&#8217; worth of media appearances and social media postings &#8230; and, he accepted the watch as payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French Montana Accused of Stealing $1M Watch &#8230; Rapper Refutes Allegations Published October 17, 2025 4:11 PM PDT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[4,236,88,483,3,484],"class_list":["post-232781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}