Bo Jackson awarded $21M in extortion case against his OWN niece and nephew… ex-NFL and MLB star is also granted a restraining order after the ‘harassment and intimidation’ began in 2022
- Bo Jackson played a total of four seasons in the NFL and eight seasons in the MLB
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Former professional baseball and football player Vincent “Bo” Jackson has won a $21 million judgment in his civil case against his niece and nephew for trying to extort him.
The Feb. 2 decision included a permanent protective order banning Thomas Lee Anderson and his sister, Erica M. Anderson Ross, from further harassing or contacting Jackson, 61, and his immediate family members. The Andersons must also stay at least 500 meters away from the Jacksons and remove any content about them from social media, news outlets reported.
The lawsuit, filed in April, alleged that the Andersons attempted to extort $20 million from Jackson through bullying and intimidation.
“Unfortunately for those who want to extort $20 million from Jackson and his family, Bo is still hitting back hard,” Jackson’s attorneys – Robert Ingram and David Conley – said in a news release about the case on Monday.
Jackson alleged that the harassment began in 2022 and included threatening messages and social media posts, public accusations that portrayed him in a false light, and public disclosure of private information intended to cause him severe emotional distress. WSB TV.
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He said Thomas Anderson wrote on Facebook that he would release photos, text and medical records of Jackson to “show America” he was not playing, the lawsuit alleged.
The Andersons, with the help of an Atlanta attorney, demanded the money in exchange for ending their behavior, Jackson said. He said they threatened to show up at a restaurant near his home and disrupt a charity event he was hosting in Auburn in April as a means of intimidation and intimidation.
The former Heisman winner feared for his safety and that of his immediate family, the lawsuit states. It sought a stalking protection order against the Andersons, as well as unspecified compensation for intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy. Jackson also filed a civil conspiracy claim against the siblings.
The court found that there was no legitimate purpose for these actions and that even after receiving a cease and desist order from Jackson’s attorneys, the harassment and intimidation continued.
According to the Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionCobb County Superior Court Judge Jason D. Marbutt said in his order that neither the Andersons nor their attorneys refuted Jackson’s claims or participated in the case after a hearing in May 2023, when they agreed to a temporary protective order .
The judge found the Andersons at fault and accepted all of Jackson’s allegations as true, the newspaper said.
“Reasonable people would find the defendants’ conduct extreme and outrageous,” Marbutt wrote. “The court saw evidence that an attorney representing the defendants claimed that his clients’ conduct would stop for a sum of $20 million.”