Oct 16, 2009 • 1 min read

Busta Rhymes ordered to pay damages in assault case

Busta Rhymes has been ordered to pay $75,000 in damages to a man who said he was sprayed with water and beaten at a 2003 concert.

Busta Rhymes has been order to pay $75,000 in damages to a man who accused the rapper and one of his bodyguards of assaulting him at a concert in 2003. Alex Duncan told the court that the two men had sprayed water on him and then beaten him during the show at SUNY in Albany, causing psychological damage including nightmares.

Duncan said: "I wanted something to come out of it. I don't even go to parties anymore, because there's always someone asking, 'What happened to that Busta Rhymes case?'".

According to the New York Post, neither the rapper nor his lawyer appeared at the hearing.

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