Rotten Mango - #256: A Famous OnlyFans Model who became a Killer - Case of Courtney Clenney

Episode Date: April 30, 2023

Courtney has over 2 million followers on Instagram. She has made over $3 million in the past 2 years on OnlyFans. In the beginning of 2022, it looked like the year couldn’t get any better for Courtney. She was bringing in a lot of money, living in a $ 10k-a-month apartment in Miami, and dating the love of her life. Till she stabbed him, just inches above his “Courtney” tattoo. But she wouldn’t be arrested for a long time. In fact, she would still post on OnlyFans after his death. She claims it was self-defense, but there are secret recordings her boyfriend took of her that muddy the waters. What really happened here? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com GoFundMe for victim’s family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-justice-for-christian-toby-obumseli To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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quite controversial considering the fact that it's just a lot. I mean, some people actually debate if the supposed charged killer is a killer, maybe they're not. It's just a lot. I mean some people actually debate if the supposed charged killer is the killer maybe they're not. It's a whole ordeal and at the center of this case is a woman by the name of Courtney Taylor. Her real name is actually Courtney Cleaney and she is most well, well, prior to this, she was most well known as an only fans model. She has over two million followers on Instagram. She was featured in G.E.Z's music video, Me, Myself and I, with BB Rexha. Yeah, she was on Playboy. Was she like a main person? Yeah, one of the main ones. Really?

She has now with O.F. She's made over $3 million in just two years. That's like $1.5 million a year on just O.F. That's not including Instagram brand deals, other revenue. And there's a whole controversy surrounding the money that she's made. And it's not because people are out here are thinking, oh my God, what are we teaching these young girls out here? Oh my God, the girls shouldn't be in charge of, you know, doing what they want with their bodies and then profiting off of it. None of these overplayed arguments. But the main controversy has been that from April 2022, to August of 2022, Courtney made about $40,000 on OnlyFans. In just 4 months, so like about $10,000 a month, right?

The only problem is, Courtney made all of this money on OnlyFans after she was accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death in April of 2022. So she kept posting four months after her boyfriend died because he had a knife in his chest. He was literally stabbed to death and she kept posting, she kept making money. She was out there, she was actually running around town in Hawaii doing a lot,

going to bars. So let's talk about the viral case of Courtney Taylor. She is often known as the OF model that has been arrested and charged with murder. As always, full show notes are available at rotinminglepodcast.com. This case is currently unfolding as we speak. Nobody has been convicted of a crime, but there has been an arrest and a lot of damaging information has come out since the arrest. I mean, it's damaging in my personal opinion. So as with all cases where the defendant has yet to be convicted of the crime and you know

the trial hasn't even happened yet, so we really don't know what's gonna come out during the trial. If there is something that will magically explain away or disprove all of the evidence that we've seen so far, which, personally, everything that's been released so far is not looking good. So I don't know if there is gonna be a magical solution where I'm gonna be like, oh, okay, that makes sense. But I will say the defendant is adamant that they did not murder anyone, okay?

Keep this in mind. And there's some Julia Fox drama in this one that gets kind of bizarre. Do you guys know who Julia Fox, do you know who Julia Fox is? She was the one that allegedly dated Kanye West after his split with Kim Kardashian. She's a model personality and now podcast host. She's actually very well beloved, but I do think that she made a mistake with commenting on this case because it was kind of a very opinionated one, but with that being said, I guess there's just two things to remember going into this case.

One, it is still developing and we don't have all the information yet. I mean, maybe we do, and nothing really comes out during trial again which still no. And second, regardless of any information that may or may not come out, someone has died. Like they blood to death before they could even turn 30. They they passed away before they could even really start living. And I think that in and of itself is just so devastating for their family and friends. There's a lot of audio clips of the victim before they passed away.

And just listening to it all, it's really hard to not sympathize so much with this person and with their family. And you can't help but get kind of angry for them, kind of riled up. So I'm gonna include the victim's family's GoFonMate linked in the description because once you hear the full extent of what this family has gone through, not just with the case itself but with law enforcement, it's ridiculous. So with that being said, let me tell you what's going on. That

day was supposed to be a very normal day. I mean I guess that's how it all starts. Courtney, the OF model, she was watching some true crime YouTube videos while doing laundry in her apartment, and then she went on an Instagram live and she was answering all these questions. People kept asking her, you know, where do you see yourself in five years? Courtney allegedly responded something along the lines of, I hope to have a kid by then. At least one kid. But the series of events that take place after she ends this Instagram live, they're going to change her life forever. Meanwhile, Courtney's boyfriend Christian, he is looking at all the missed calls on his phone from Courtney. He had already told her that he

was going to go downstairs, walk to subway, and grab subs for the both of them. And now he's standing in the elevator that's taking him to their 22nd floor Miami Sky Rise apartment and you know, he's thinking to himself. This is crazy Like I know Courtney's subway order by heart yet. She still doubts my love for her The elevator opens directly into their unit Which it's kind of crazy, but it's one of those high-end departments So the elevator doors they open up and he hears Courtney screaming, bloody murder. He wasn't even surprised. I mean, not even shocked at all. This was a normal occurrence for him.

But within an hour, he would be dead in the skyrise, with a knife sticking out of his chest inches above his tattoo. The tattoo on his chest red Courtney. Wow. So let's go all the way to the beginning. Courtney has a pretty intense online footprint. She was like I said featured on Playboy in a G easy music video, but she was most well known for being an OF model. She's also kind of slightly controversial even prior to all of this.

You know, people either hated her or they loved her, the red pill men of the world, they probably hated her because she was so open about her sexuality. And the fact that she was profiting off of her own body, she made millions of dollars and she was very happy about it, very proud of it, and she famously said in a podcast. I only like black guys. Let me clarify, I only date rich black guys, which I'm sure was triggering to a lot of people. Some people were triggered by the fact that she only dates rich men. Some people were triggered by the fact that she as a white woman was fetishizing black men or they were triggered

by both. But on the same podcast called We The Miami, Courtney talks about how she likes to be submissive. She likes to be submissive intimately, but doesn't like it when men tell her what to do outside of the bedroom. She also briefly touches on the fact that she makes a lot of money on OF. Again, $3 million in two years, just on subscriptions, not including other things. So people either loved her for being this girl boss that was taking charge of her own body and being transparent, or they hated her for being what they deemed a vapid LA model who only cares about money.

But what's interesting is when I saw these clips of her on this podcast, which was relatively recent, literally like weeks before the death of her boyfriend, the change in her personality throughout the years was kind of intense. Like from that podcast forward to today, from her G easy music video and playboy days to that podcast today. And even her transformation after getting arrested has been a hot topic, but it's just really intense. So back before all of this takes place, back before OF and before even LA, Courtney was just a small town Texas girl.

She was born April 21st, 1996, but Courtney would find herself like the epitome of a Texas girl growing up, she freaking loved southern festivities like mudding. Okay, so I grew up in the south and this isn't something that I was that familiar with until maybe after my childhood, but it's when you get into a truck. Some people do it in ATVs and you drive through this really muddy wet terrain, hence it's called mudding. You go through these muddy areas and you start spinning your tires really, really quickly

so you fling mud everywhere And it just splatters all over you all over the trucks behind you Courtney freaking loved that that was like her jam. That's her pastime She also really loved southern food. She would constantly say southern food is the best food of all time and her weakness was Waterburger. It's like a popular text and fast food chain. That's like her guilt meal. So Courtney was originally born in Midland area. Her family ends up moving to Austin, which is where she grows up most of her life. And it's a pretty small family unit. The Clenney family was mom, dad, Courtney, and little sister Morgan. That's it. It's just the

four of them, but they're really close. So Courtney's dad Kim, finance guy. He's been in finance for over 15 years. He's a financial advisor. Later, he would be the financial advisor of Courtney's assets and her personal finances. So she really, really trust her parents. She depends on her parents a lot, not just financially, not just for advice, but for everything.

Courtney's mom, Deborah, was like her therapist on speed dial. If Courtney ever felt conflicted, sad, upset, you better believe Deborah was on speaker phone, giving her advice or calming her down. It was kind of to the point where if Courtney got into a fight with her boyfriend, her mom would be on speaker phone in the middle of the fight with her boyfriend, which is kind of odd, okay? Just keep that in mind. So in Austin, Courtney really finds herself, I guess, she just has this strong interest in sports. That's like most of

her childhood. I don't know how to describe it other than she kind of has this obsession with sports. She dips her toes in the water as being a girl scout, but eventually she tries literally everything. Soccer, volleyball, gymnastics, diving, horseback riding, side note. I feel like her parents had to be pretty good financially. Because that's a lot of sports and those are a lot of expensive sports unless they just spent all of their money on Courtney. I mean, he was a financial advisor. It sounds like they were doing really well for themselves. Now, Courtney would later joke as an adult. The reason she was blessed with such a big butt was because she played a lot of sports at a young age, particularly horseback riding.

So one day, Courtney tells her parents, mom, dad, I'm gonna grow up. And I'm gonna be an Olympic diver one day. That's her dream. She wanted them to support her and everyone took it. So freaking seriously, they went to every single diving practice. They went to all of them, all the swim meets, she's gonna grow up to be an Olympian one day they said.

And then out of nowhere Courtney was like, I'm not doing it anymore. Why? I'm scared of sharks. What? She said she was too scared of sharks in the pool. Even Courtney herself acknowledges the reason that she was scared to dive because of sharks in the pool was a silly reason, but it seems like a trend with Courtney. And I don't know because I don't know her personally, but from all the research that we've

done, it just seems like Courtney is the type of person, if I can guess or speculate, that once she has something in her mind, like a fear of sharks in the pool, or like she's going to move out to LA and do this, once she has something in her mind, like a fear of sharks in the pool, or like she's gonna move out to LA and do this. Once she has something in her mind, I feel like she's a bit stubborn and nobody can convince her otherwise. If she thinks that there's some damn sharks in the pool, there's some damn sharks in the pool.

Once Courtney gets to high school, she's miserable. Just everything starts falling apart in high school and I'm not sure why. She just starts feeling like a social outcast. She has a hard time making friends and it resulted in her feeling lonely just all the freakingcast. She has a hard time making friends, and it resulted in her feeling lonely just all the freaking time. She said high school was torturous, and she could not wait to get out. She hinted at being bullied later in a

YouTube video where she was doing this Q&A about high school. She says, and I quote, my hit list is very long. Let's just say that. She's got a lot of problems with a lot of people in high school. She just wants to be an adult. She has all of these things she wants to do. She wants to be a model, a sports personality, a business woman, a YouTuber. She doesn't really know exactly what, but she just wants to get the fork out of high school, get out of Austin, and do something with her life. So, in high school, she becomes obsessed with fitness, and she said it was a result of

her just being so angry all the time. She needed an outlet for all of these things that were going on in her life, so she kind of becomes a Jim Rat. I mean, she's already very athletic, but now she's getting into fitness-grue territory. I'm not just talking sports, I'm talking counting macros, micros, like all of that. She said that Jim helped her find her piece, and it saved her life as a result. I should also mention, since we like all of that. She said the gym helped her find her piece and it saved her life as a result. I should also mention, since we're talking about it.

Courtney has always been a very beautiful girl growing up. She's had long blonde hair, she's five foot eight. She's also developed quite young, which might be pertinent to the story later. And with her conventionally attractive looks and her passion for working out and sports, Courtney felt like she could do something. She starts taking small roles in movies as a teenager. She was like an extra extra. Like she didn't even have a name. So in a lot of the credits, she would be like sorority girl one. And

there's like five sorority girls sorority girl too, right? She didn't have any lines really, but she would always play some sort of cute sorority girl, barista, you know, all of these things. And she was in some big ones, like everybody wants some. That's what I'm talking about. American Psycho. In 2013, she was even an extra in a Pepsi commercial. Very interesting.

After graduating in 2014, she packs a ball of her bags and she's like, look, I'm so sick of being an extra. I want to be something, okay? She moves to LA. She's 18, moves to LA with not that much money. I mean, she's clearly chasing something at this point. Nobody at that age just moves to LA to pay a million dollars in rent and eat at aero-one. You're trying to do something with your life, okay? She really wanted to be famous. So she just starts kind of doing a little bit of everything. Social media, modeling, YouTube, college,

and her big break, if you will, was the G-E-Z music video, me, myself, and I. She didn't even audition. G-E-Z's photographer saw her on Instagram, reached out through a mutual friend, and was like, hey, do you want to quickly be in a music video? We're filming like soon. She was so freaking over the moon, okay?

Yes, it's a music video, it's huge production, but more than that, Courtney was such a big fan of G Easy. And I'm not just talking like, oh my God, I'm such a fan of your stuff. She actually went to his concert before he was even G Easy. He just went by his real name, Gerald. She had gone to his concert when she was 16 and on YouTube she said I was able to go backstage and I asked him to quote

sign my tits. I need it. I don't know what to do with that information. So she's very excited but she's not getting her hopes up. She doesn't think it's gonna be this crazy role. She assumes she's gonna be maybe one of the millions of girls in the music video at like a house party Like house party girl five, right when she gets to the shoot towards the end all the extraser asked to leave and she's told to stay She ends up playing a slightly bigger role in the music video and she's handing GZ a cake and then standing next to him up against a wall while he's like feeling himself It's like a whole thing. It wasn't even the

longest I've ever seen someone in a music video, but it kind of helps propel her career forward. This is G.E.Z.'s fourth most popular music video in his entire career to this day. I think right now it's sitting at nearly 600 million views. And ever since then, Courtney has flooded with questions of if she slept with G easy. To which she responds, I've met a lot of famous people and I don't smash them. Either way, the music video, Courtney's Instagram, social media accounts, they start taking off and she's like, wait a minute, maybe I should be a bit more serious about this. She starts posting daily on Instagram. She started following a bunch of these models online

and she's studying what do they all do, how are they all making big money. She realized they post every single day and they post a bit more sexy photos. So that's what she started doing. And her big career moment was a little bit awkward. Her dad calls her. It's like, hey, why is Playboy posting you?

What? She's like, what? She opens up an article by Playboy and sure enough, the title is Courtney Taylor is your typical girl next door. She literally looks like a girl next door. Wait, how is the dad like? I know, I know, I know.

I know. Yeah, I know. I had that thought too. I'm like, either this guy's got his Google searches on or I guess he's doing what he wants to do, right? OK, so just to give you an idea, because there is a lot going on, this is her when she first moves out to LA.

So you can see the girl next door kind of energy, correct? Like the girl next door vibe. This is her in the music video. So there's a whole article talking about her Instagram account And it's including pictures of her. She really does fit the girl next door vibe and this is when the girl next door vibe Was America's obsession. I mean it still is but this is like Kate upton times, you know I'm talking American flag bikinis, blonde hair, like that type of vibe was, everyone was obsessed with it and really gave me a lot to think about, okay? Anyways, she fit that. So between 2015 and 2016, Courtney and Playboy, they would interact with each other here

and there online. Playboy would constantly include her in these these big articles of top 10 influencers to follow, top 10 Instagram girl next doors, and every single time she would get like 5,000 more followers at just even the mention of her name in an article. So Playboy, they really want to book her for a new photo shoot. They keep asking and she keeps declining. She said, I'm just not comfortable. But a few months later, Playboy told her, okay fine, not nude, let's just do a feature.

Her career blows up. She starts her YouTube channel at that moment because this is great, this is good momentum. And most of her channel is focused on healthy habits, exercise routines, fitness and lifestyle content. She loved doing Q&A sessions on YouTube, but I don't think it was her ultimate dream to be a YouTuber. She was just using it as a way to dip her toes into the industry. But you can definitely feel this girl next door vibe just radiating through YouTube.

She feels relatable. She's like this blonde bombshell, but she would share these little snippets of her life where she was waving at a guy and walked into a fire hydrant and she's so clumsy and cute, you know, she seems very nice. But maybe there's a lot more to Courtney than her online persona. So let's dive into some of her relationships or at least some of her semi-public relationships. And this is like a whole new chapter of her social media career. I feel like she had the G easy girl next door phase. And this is the chapter where she kind of goes full on into the bodybuilding phase, the fitness grew phase. She starts hanging out a lot with bodybuilders that won like Mr. Olympia, professional men's bodybuilding competition.

She starts competing in several regional bikini competitions herself. By 2017, she's a certified personal trainer. Like, this woman is kind of a business woman. The minute she gets that certification, she's like, I'm open for online coaching on YouTube. She thought about one day launching her own fitnesswear brand, and she set her biggest aspirations in life where Lori and Barbara from Shark Tank. So they're both business moguls with nine figure networks and Oprah Winfrey, a billionaire. She said these were her inspirations in life.

She wanted to start her own business, sell products, be a mogul like these women. Interestingly, Courtney does mention that she feels an extra special connection with Oprah, and it's not because she's the billionaire of the group. She said that she admired Oprah because Oprah had been through so much but was able to persevere,

build a better life through her struggles. Courtney adds that she too went through these similar struggles. Side note, it is a very well-known part of Oprah's story that she was molested by her cousin, uncle, and a family friend since she was just nine years old. So leaving a lot of Courtney's years wondering if she had maybe endured some sexual trauma at a young age, somewhere even connecting the dots of like, oh, maybe that's what caused

her to be sexualized to an extent when she was just a teenager. Maybe she endured some sort of trauma. Around this time, Corny's love life is like a huge topic of conversation amongst her viewers. They just want to know, are you dating anyone? And she always gets asked, like, what's your ideal type? Who do you like the most? She said, I like someone built. I like someone tall.

But you know what? I prioritize honesty and relationship. In a sense of humor, she says, and I quote, I like a man with confidence without the cockiness. So a lot changes, because this is what she says in the beginning of her career, and later, like right before the death of her boyfriend, she's like, I only date rich black guys.

So it's like a lot of different shifts in her online persona or maybe her personality, or maybe she just grew old and grew up. I don't know. But she was kind of a hopeless romantic at this stage or at least she portrayed herself to be. She always talked about having kids, how she personally would never feel fulfilled unless she was a mom one day. She said she wanted a big house with a big yard and a dog and just like a funny kind partner, just to take on life with. So these are all like her YouTube videos,

like personal telling. YouTube videos, she did a lot of Q and A so on. There were a lot to come through. And towards the end of 2016, Courtney starts hinting at a boyfriend. She never really shows him too much in her videos. Like you'll see random snaps of him in videos or like in the corner of the frame. He would be in the passenger seat of the car while she's driving and vlogging. But it was enough

for people in the fitness community to ID the guy as Sean wrote in a winner of the coveted Mr. Olympia contest, which is this huge. Yes. He's the Mr. Olympia. Yeah, I think there's like a every year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he was the Mr. Olympia for a year, which is a huge deal, right? Yeah. But Sean, he never even really talked much in her videos. Maybe he was shy.

Courtney would always say that he's very sweet and chivalrous towards her. Come to find out, their relationship was far from perfect. There might be a reason that Sean wasn't in a lot of Courtney's videos. Sure, he might be Kama Shai. But it turns out that he was already in a very serious relationship with another woman at the time. He had just had his first child with her, and this is where things get weird. What? Maybe Courtney knew this is where things get weird. What?

Maybe Courtney knew this. Maybe she didn't. But people were stitching together timelines and this is completely a legit and purely speculation but around the time that they allegedly broke up, Courtney allegedly found out about the other girlfriend and Sean at the same time sustained a broken jaw injury. It's speculatory, but a lot of people speculate that Courtney had been the one to break his jaw because she found out about the other woman.

We don't know if this is true, but if it is, I could see why Sean wouldn't report it to the police. The fitness community is small. He probably doesn't want his dirty laundry out there. But additionally, I imagine with the culture of bodybuilding there, there might be some victim shaming. If he were ever to come out as a victim of domestic violence, I do think that people would question, what do you stand up for yourself? So we're not really sure. Years later, Sean would have trouble of his own. He was charged with...anned from ever taking part in another Mr. Olympia contest ever again. He also passed away in 2021 from a heart attack.

Now for Courtney, she continues on with her life and the more time that she spends on social media, the more open she becomes about her sexuality and experiences. And this part, I don't think anything's wrong with it, I know some people bring it up. I think it's fine I think the fact that she was an OF model like it's fine. There's nothing wrong with it I do think it's weird that she kept posting after the death of her boyfriend But other than that up until this point there's nothing wrong She was very open. She talks about what she went through how even though she was athletic in a tomboy

She didn't want to look like that. She said that she always wanted to feel sexy. She even started wearing a Victoria Secret bombshell bra when she was just 10. She said she always liked the curvier look. She admitted to having a for some at the young age of 19. She said the other participants were in their mid 20s. She shared a lot of intense hookup stories about hooking up with other girls and making them bleed on accident because she had long acrylic nails on. She also states, and I quote, I'm not a lesbian, but I have crushes on certain types of girls. So there's that. You kind of see Courtney go from being this Southern

girl in LA spending most of her time talking about fitness and her diet, to later embracing more and more of her sexuality, she starts adopting a bit more of that bad girl persona. Whether it's true or marketing for OF or maybe she just grew up a bit, I'm not sure which one. But now that we have a good overview of who Courtney is, her come-up story, and now she's on OF. She starts her next romantic relationship in the midst of the pandemic. She meets a Christian Obam Sally. He was often lovingly referred to as Toby from his friends and family, that's his middle name, and Christian was also a native Texan. Born in Dallas in 1994, so he's

about two years older than Courtney. His dad is a technician. His mom was a nurse. And there's just a lot of similarities between the two. Similar to Courtney's family, his family is super tight-knit. And Christian was like this all American guy growing up. He was the youngest in his family. The whole family had this big, vibrant energy about them.

Christian was a football player for his high school team and his coach said, I had the privilege of working with Toby while he was at Play-Doh East. His talent was evident the minute that he stepped on to the field. His work ethic was off the charts. His goal was to play beyond high school and the kid always just had a smile on his face.

He was willing to help the younger players every chance that he had. So everyone that knew Christian, they really only had good things to say about him. I guess if you had to pick one bad trait, if it could even be a bad trait, people said he really liked to help people. Perhaps to his own detriment. He just wanted to be in college football though. That's his goal. He works hard, eventually earns himself a football scholarship, transfers to Texas Tech where he starts studying engineering, and he's just one of those students that had a ton of interest and a ton of passions. He likes engineering, he's interested in business,

he's driven, he's still playing football, he wants to graduate, start his own business one day, and then, May of 2020, he meets Courtney. They both meet in Mexico while they're on vacation. A lot of people said it's like love at first sight. The minute that they laid eye and saw each other, they're attached at the hip from the get go. For the first time, Christian would run home to tell his family about this new girl that he'd been seeing.

And his family, they were kind of shook. He had never really brought home a girl or even came home to gush about a relationship or a girl before, so you could literally feel the love that he had for Courtney every time he talked about her. They're kind of happy for him kind of shocked because they've never seen this side of him. He would whip out his phone and show them pictures asking his family, isn't she so cute? Isn't she so cute? Now a lot of guys might have been

embarrassed or thrown off by Courtney's career, that she was an OF model, or maybe they would have not been embarrassed, but hit it from their parents? Christian did not. I believe his family were pretty traditional Nigerians, so it was especially, especially difficult for him to bring up the topic, but he respected Courtney. He expected his family to do the same. He didn't find that there was anything wrong with her career. He even told Courtney, if there's anything I can do

to help you with work, if you ever need it, like I'll help you out. So he tells his family very proudly what Courtney does for a living, which is crazy because remember how Courtney is so close with her family, they don't even know that she's doing a left. They think that she's making all of this money from modeling. So, he tells them repeatedly,

he's very, very serious about Courtney, and they accept her with open arms. In 2021, Christian and Courtney move in together, and they decide to move in Austin, Texas. So, she's back from LA. And it seems like they're moving kind of fast, right? They met in 2020, they're moving in 2021, and it's back from LA. And it seems like they're moving kind of faster, right? They met in 2020, they're moving in 2021. And it's kind of interesting.

This is a side note, completely unrelated to the case. But I've heard a lot of relationships that started during the pandemic tended to move faster. I don't know why. I feel like that's like a trend in all the cases that I've been researching, but also just in personal life. Everyone that I know that started dating in the pandemic, they're like getting engaged.

I'm like, what happened? Literally what happened? I guess something about the pandemic makes people spend more time with their partner and they're like, let's just move in together. So they move into Texas and their relationship starts spiraling. So at first they're inseparable, they're in love,

they're so well connected. I mean, people were actually worried about them. They're like, you guys need to go outside more. You cannot just be the only person in each other's life. You guys are turning into hermits. This is not okay. I don't think this is, you can't be each other's world. But it doesn't last long.

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Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates comparison rates not available in all states or situations. Price is very based on how you buy. People who knew them said they were that couple. You know that couple. No matter where you go, doesn't matter how fun, exciting, happy the energy is the smallest little comment, the smallest body language hint. Boom, one of them just gets set off and they fight all day all the in front of a group of friends, in public, in front of you. They don't even try to hide it. They literally don't care if you feel uncomfortable that they're fighting.

And you're just like, what is going on? They might even get you involved like this person did this. Who side are you on? What do you think? So it's a lot. Now, let's talk about some of their most notable fights. The Vegas trip July of 2021, Christian Courtney Courtney go on a trip to Las Vegas While they were there they get into this explosive fight where police are called to their room

They're staying at the Cosmopolitan casino and the first few days are spent soaking up the desert sun Having a few drinks lounging by the pool and a few of out of town friends They even fly into Vegas to join the couple and the the couple, they get matching tattoos on this trip. To me, it sounds like they're having fun. So a few days into their trip, Courtney's feeling a midday slump. They just had lunch. They were in the sun. She's drunk.

She's tired. She's asking, Christian, can we go back to our room and take a nap before we got dinner plans with our friends? So while they're laying in bed, I guess they start arguing just about the little things. They had kind of gotten into a small argument the night before and maybe Courtney felt like they weren't over it. So she lays in bed and she asks him, babe, do you hate me? Now, Christian is honest. He says, no, of course not.

I'm just a bit disappointed with the trip. That's all. I think that this is a completely normal, healthy conversation. If not even a relatable conversation for a lot of couples, he's reassuring her. No, I love you. But also, I'm gonna be honest that I'm feeling a bit down about the way that this Vegas trip is going. Like, I had a completely different idea. Christian would later tell the police that he was just hoping the Vegas trip would be a bit more fun, a bit more exciting, more action. He felt like all they did was sleep, drink, lay at the pool, sleep, drink, eat, lay at the pool. And it was just all of the days that they had spent in Vegas so far had just meshed into one. Courtney confirmed that she said the night before they actually had a whole argument about it.

But she added that this fight was not because Christian was upset with her because the Vegas trip wasn't good, but she claims the fight started because he called her a bitch. This fight over something seemingly so minor, not the bitch part, but just this whole Vegas trip part, detonates. They're both screaming at each other full force. I mean to get noise complaints in Vegas, I'm assuming is pretty hard. They're throwing things at each other. They're trashing the entire hotel room. Courtney decides to call the security herself. She said that she just wanted help de-escalating the fight. She told them that she's not scared for her life or anything like that. She just needs help de-escalating. Police get called out to the scene and we see body

can footage of the room and it's destroyed. Yeah, there's chairs are upside down, it's messy, food is thrown about, clothes are thrown about, the couple were separated and interrogated. Courtney admits she threw a glass at Christian out of pure anger. She said that she was upset that he didn't want to sleep in the same bed as her after the fight. The glass just barely missed his head. The police then asked Christian if Courtney ever attempted to kill him and he slowly shook his head no. But because Courtney admits to throwing a glass at his head, she was going to be charged automatically with domestic battery.

Courtney starts panicking while she's being arrested and said, I just don't feel like I should be getting arrested right now. Is this an overnight ordeal? And they said, is it 12-hour hold? A 12-hour hold? She starts panicking and almost pointing the finger at this point. She says, okay, there's just a lot of things I didn't say because I didn't want to get Christian in trouble.

At this point, can I just get a hug from my boyfriend? There's just a lot that happened that I didn't want to get Christian in trouble. At this point, can I just get a hug from my boyfriend? There's just a lot that happened that I didn't want to bring up. She wanted to hug from him right now. Yeah, I guess she's trying to show them we can make up and maybe if he indicates to you that he's not scared of me, then you don't need to arrest me. I think she's trying to say this was a mutual argument where both parties were heated. I think that's what she's trying to insinuate, but the police didn't care. She did not accuse Christian of doing anything violent towards her. Christian did not admit to doing anything violent towards

her. All we have is her admitting to throwing a glass at him, so she's going to get charged. She realizes this and she starts whipping out all these random things. She's like, I have a UTI. I'm on my period. She starts randomly asking for things that I don't even know if it's considered making excuses, but she starts asking to speak with her mom. She asks for her vape. She even says that she's got to go take a poo. It's a lot. So in the end, she's arrested, put on a 12 hour hold, but she just keeps repeating, okay, seriously. There is so much I didn't say because I didn't want my boyfriend to get in trouble. This is important.

She was released 12 hours later and no charges were pressed. Now, there are a lot of ways that people are interpreting this incident. The main consensus being that, see, she's abusive, she's been abusive, this is proof of that. But her defense attorney is trying to argue, no, this proves how far she's willing to go to protect her abuser, Christian. So her defense attorney is literally digging his feet in the sand saying that Christian is the abuser. So I'm going to let you come

up with your own theories. The defense attorney is insinuating that he was far more abusive than her than she was in this Vegas incident. Not a lot of people are buying it. But one thing is very clear from this incident. Their relationship is not headed in the right direction. Courtney was also often seen on social media with bruises on her body. Nobody in her comments was really saying anything about it. I don't know about her DMs, but it seems like nobody was making a big fuss about it. There weren't people creating videos like, fuss about it. There weren't people creating videos of like, is Courtney okay? There weren't people commenting

and stirring up conspiracy theories, which she would very quickly address the bruises by posting on social media. Is it just me or do women always have random unexplained bruises on their legs? Maybe I'm just clumsy or I'm a peach. Some people say this was her leaving evidence that she was being abused.

Some people would argue it's a little manipulative, it seems like she's trying to draw attention to the bruises when nobody noticed it. Yeah, I guess. I don't know, people have very mixed reviews about it. But after Vegas, the two are pretty miserable. They're non-stop fighting, making up, repeating the vicious toxic cycle. And this is really sad, but it always seems like Courtney is the one getting mad at Christian, and he's always trying to make things up to her.

Allegedly, he would write these handwritten letters and some of them were found in the condo torn up, but they were really sweet and kind of very sad in hindsight. So they read, you are honestly the sweetest and most annoying person ever, but I would never trade you for anything. I'm guilty of not loving you like the beginning and over time, I'm guilty of making you not love yourself. I'm guilty of gaslighting you to any level and mentally abusing you. I turned my pain and hurt into something.

I turned it into a habit here, and I couldn't control it and acknowledge it because of the pain and hurt, which was never of hurting you on purpose to the point of rage where you throw things and say things and even call your mom as a lifeline. I'm holding myself 100% accountable for everything I am. I want you to know that it will never happen again.

And regardless of how I was treated, I should always love respect and cherish you. Now we don't know what happened behind closed doors and I don't know if we'll ever know the truth because only one party is still alive to tell their truth. But you know how Christian refers to treating her badly and gaslighting her in the letters? A lot of people don't actually think that he gaslight her. They speculate that maybe Christian and gaslighting her in the letters, a lot of people don't actually think that he gas-loved her. They speculate that maybe Christian was gas-lighted into thinking he was gas-lighting her, if that makes sense. Again, I don't know these are just speculations.

Some people think that he was led to believe that he was the one ruining the relationship, and I'm sure that he did some toxic things too. I don't think that there is ever an innocent person in a relationship, but that is just speculation. Because let me tell you what happens next. October 9th to October 11th of 2021, Courtney and Christian get into yet another explosive fight. Courtney speculated that Christian was cheating on her. She sends him numerous text messages just yelling at him, being upset with him, and she would say

things like, hey, you're pissing me off. And it was a lot. It got to the point where the fight escalated. Courtney beat Christian with a phone to his head and stabbed him in the leg, stabbed him in the leg. We didn't. I don't know a knife for scissors, but we know he was stabbed in the leg because there's evidence Christian texts her after this incident and said the crazy thing about all of this is that yesterday when you fucking stabbed me in the fucking leg And you saw how bad it was how bad it was hurting me and I couldn't even walk I couldn't do shit and you were telling me I wish I could take your pain away I wish it was me and not you. The next morning, I still woke up happy

and I still gave you a good day, even though my leg was hurting because you stabbed me. So you're telling me, you can't do the same thing the next day for me and say, shit, whatever happened last night is last night today's a new day? Because that's what I do for you. I woke up happy, I took you to Vegas

to get your redacted. I don't happy. I took you to Vegas to get your Redacted. I don't know if those drugs, but it's redacted. Drove right back. Help you with your shoot. Drink with you. Did Blow. Okay, cocaine. Did Blow with you just so you could have a great day and I'm doing all of this while my leg hurts so fucking bad. Did I make you feel like shit for stabbing me? No, I just sucked it up and I hope tomorrow would be better She does not deny stabbing him in the leg After these text messages now the two do not part ways after this

But instead Christian gets a tattoo of Courtney's name on his chest and this is not me blaming Christian for staying I think this whole thing is just very toxic. I think adding to the element that Christian seems to be a male partner that is a victim of domestic violence, it just adds another layer of complexity. I think for women, it's already so hard to identify yourself as a domestic violence victim. You just feel like this is your relationship and things aren't going well and you can do better, we can all do better. But I think it's even harder for men to ID themselves as a victim of domestic violence. But we do know that Courtney seems to be embracing it. She posted a

TikTok that was captioned, him showing me 100 red flags and me, and it's her dancing with her tongue out. So either she's enjoying the toxicity of their relationship or at least she's aware of it, enough to make a joke out of their relationship or at least she's aware of it, enough to make a joke out of it. So, you're like, okay, wow, can I get worse from here? Yes, it absolutely can. So, in 2022, they moved to Miami together. They had gone to Miami for a vacation once and they're like, Texas socks.

This is the place to be. Florida is amazing. The sun, the weather. I think speculation, they put a lot of hope into this Miami move. Their relationship was rocky, it wasn't going well, and I think on this vacation they realized they're getting along. It's so sunny, the sunny, and the palm trees are putting them in a great mood. And like Miami is the place for us.

So they packed their bags, they decided to start in Miami. Their ultimate dream was to move to London eventually, but they really liked Miami They got this beautiful apartment in the 22nd floor of this skyrise apartment in Miami that had Unobstructed views of the bay like from the outside their lies are perfect They're living in a $10,000 a month luxury high-rise building to give you an idea. This unit, the elevator opens up directly into their apartment. Into like an elevator room is what they call it. It's like a little foyer and then you have another door, but it's not like a thick door. This is literally their own elevator. They had their own private

balcony with unobstructed views of the water. And Courtney explained, you know, she works from home, so having a home with the view is very important to her. This is the dream. They can work from anywhere, they can travel, they can afford life's greatest luxuries, they're in love, or at least they should be. And I don't know, I imagine moving to this new environment should be the most exciting part, right? At least a period of bliss, but it wasn't.

Text messages from that month that they moved to Miami show completely otherwise. Their fights have gotten worse. The text indicate that most of the fights ended up with Courtney getting physically abusive with Christian. He would send her messages after the fights with extensive lists of his injuries and wounds. And in response, Courtney would acknowledge her actions,

but she doesn't even seem to be that sympathetic. For example, Christian would text her, now I have doesn't even seem to be that sympathetic. For example, Christian would text her, now I have a lump and I'm bleeding. I'm throwing up. I got a mild concussion and I have anxiety. I slept in the restroom and I think I got a mild concussion and I just... I'm lost beyond words. She responds,

I'm sorry for hitting you in the face in the back of your head and spitting on you. Is that right? No, you just... You pissed me the fuck off. But I still love you. Other fights resulted in neighbors or bystanders getting involved. February 1st, 2022. Courtney and Christian were planning on buying cocaine that day. It's presumed by the end of the day Courtney was both drunk and high.

Christian was downstairs in one of the public amenities of the apartment building. He's sitting and watching some football in like the lounge area. Courtney's texting him and he responds, yes Courtney. So whether she's like, hello, right? She says yes Courtney, that's unnecessary. The two get into this explosive fight in the common area. He eventually gets sliced in the face by her, but I don't know if this is when they get back to their unit, I don't know. But neighbors start to take notice. One of the neighbors even pulled out his phone and recorded the fight that was taking place.

He said it was shocking. A lot of couples argue, they get into it, but not physically like that. We just started hearing the arguing. She was being very aggressive towards them, and there's even been a video that's been released of a neighbor who was watching them fighting and walking through the amenity area and he could see straight down. So it's like an overview shot of them. And he said that you could hear them from 12 floors up, fighting and yelling.

And he said it looked like Courtney was threatening to jump in the water at one point. Christian was injured during the fight. He ends up going to the hospital that night and Courtney text him. Hopefully this will give you time to think about your actions. Enjoy your time at the hospital. We don't really know what caused this fight, but it clearly escalates and she's telling him at the hospital that he's a gas lighter and she even says, I have to continue explaining to you how to act. In the hospital, he's getting medical attention for two slashes on his face.

He's completely ignoring her. And I guess this is when she kind of freaks out. She texts him again to ensure that he doesn't say anything to the doctors. She says, tell them your side and I'll tell them what happened, Christian. He responds, I'm not saying anything, I'm going to say it's a football accident. He was discharged from the hospital, but I guess Courtney wasn't around when he got back because he texted her. I was in the hospital looking forward to seeing you and you go drink and leave with someone else. When your boyfriend is passed out on the bed getting stitched up because I lost so much blood, through text messages, after this incident, we do see Courtney feeling a little bit more

apologetic. She is nonstop apologizing for this event. She's texting him, I love you so much. I should have been at the hospital with you. I should have slept with you. I have always loved you. I feel extreme sadness, regret, humiliation, and I'm just so sorry for hurting you. Again, maybe this is why Christian couldn't leave.

You know, abusers typically love bomb you and apologize to the moon and back after hurting you. They just want you back in their arms. The couple mutually agreed to continue working on their relationship and they're gonna move on from this fight. But if you look through Christian's phone, you'll notice that after this incident,

something changed. I think he realized that his life was in actual danger. He starts making hidden recordings of their fights. He would film it with his phone in his pocket. He would leave text messages that would voice his concerns for how violent their relationship was getting, and leaving what prosecutors would probably deem a trail of evidence behind to show the court how things

were escalating. February 2022, Christian and Courtney get into another physical fight. Christian ends up recording the audio from the inside of his pocket. Through context, this is what we gather. They're spending time with their friends, and on their way out, while they're with their friends, Courtney gets into a little fight with one of their mutual friends, like an argument, a disagreement. I don't know how bad the fight was, but Christian ends up citing with the other party.

Now, again, I don't know if it was like, no Courtney, you're wrong. I agree with this person. Or if it was like a, hey Courtney, like maybe there's two sides to the story. I don't know how he's cited with the other party, but this feels like a real fight that any couple could have. But the way that it escalates is not normal. I mean, there's a million ways that Courtney could have expressed her anger for not feeling like she was being supported

by Christian. But instead, we have this. So I imagine this audio clip is when they're on the way to their car, they get into the car heading back home after meeting their friends. Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here!

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Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! Get away from here! home to the Miami condo after the bizarre situation with the friends. They stop the car and they start fighting. They're fighting so loudly, so aggressively that multiple bystanders felt the need to

get involved. The audio itself is really alarming. If you guys are just listening to the audio version of this podcast, the best way to I could describe it is unhinged. We see Courtney go through multiple different emotions back to back to back and it's alarming. The whole time Christian is heard being patient and calm. He's not instigating a fight. He's not trying to egg her on.

He's not trying to have like a no, but you did this conversation in the beginning of the audio. Courtney could be heard almost whispering threatening to end her own life. Yeah. So she's saying things like, I'm gonna kill myself. And he keeps pleading with her, babe, please get in the car, please. I'm sorry for calling you stupid.

It wasn't right for me to do it. And she says, I'm actually gonna kill myself. Baby, don't kill yourself. Then she starts full on screaming at him. You would never protect me. Someone was being horrible to me. You defend everyone but me. And he's saying, get in the car, please.

And she's screaming, get away from me. Your dogs are in the car. So we hear throughout the audio, Christian tries to get Courtney's love for her dogs. We're waiting for her in the car to get her back into the car because she's just out in public right now, causing a huge scene. But she keeps arguing with him. see, you just stay there. She's screaming every

time I ask you for help. A bystander approaches them and can be heard in the audio clip saying, you guys in a relationship? Christian responds, yes. Courtney says not anymore. She starts talking to the bystander and then eventually thanks him for being concerned about her and apologizes. And the bystander is trying to thanks him for being concerned about her and apologizes. And the bystander is trying to diffuse the situation and is like, no, no, no, you don't need to apologize. I also have problems in my relationship too, bro, like shit happens. Courtney says he just broke up with me and the fact that he's bending down now, that is how he makes friends with everyone. So I'm assuming maybe Christian was hands on his knees, like kind of slouched

over, like, stressed about the situation. She's upset with him for acting like a victim in this situation is kind of the vibe that I get. And the bystander is like, no, no, it's not about that. And she's screaming, yes, it is. She then turns to Christian, because I guess he said something and she screams, SHUT UP! She mumbles something before saying Christian literally got into her car. Then she keeps apologizing to the bystander and it's just, if it feels very abrupt, I do think that she was going through a lot of emotions. The way that I can best describe it is just listening to this audio and as a complete stranger, I would probably go to the other side of the sidewalk. is just listening to this audio and as a complete stranger,

I would probably go to the other side of the sidewalk. Like, I'm not sure if I would want to be near her at this point just because it feels very unstable as a bystander. She keeps screaming and both Christian and the bystander are trying to get her to calm down. Christian says, CC, just stop please, okay? I'm sorry, please." And she's screaming,

now you always make yourself look good to other people. No, no, it's, I'm not, it's my fault. The bystander is like, man, he said it's his fault. Courtney, just come on. Courtney, please, your dogs are in the car. Courtney ends up taking off, just running off. And the bystander sticks around to give one last warning of sorts to Christian. He says to him, because Courtney's not around. That shouldn't be normal, bro. So this complete bystander is telling Christian like, couples fight, but that's not normal behavior.

Christian doesn't really respond. He just runs after Courtney, and you can hear her whaling in the distance. I'm not sure. Shut up. You really just got... I got my car. What you're upset? I'm going to go to my car. Yeah, I'm just standing there. Yeah. We're like this and green.

So DC has, she's like angry and then she starts apologizing for her emotions maybe. We're going to go out. We're going to go out. We're going to go out. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.

Go ahead. Go ahead. DC just stopped. This is me. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash.

I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. I'm gonna get a lot of cash. dogs are in the car. That shit ain't normal my bro. So she's whaling in the distance after she runs off. He chases after her and he keeps apologizing. He's saying, CC, I'm so sorry and she's like, you are not sorry, like fuck you. He's like, just look at me, I'm sorry, I should have never made you feel this way, I'm sorry. She starts screaming, you are supposed to protect me. Now, another bystander approaches them and asks, is everything okay?

Courtney responds, no. And she tells them, I guess, a small snippet of her version of events. And they ask, do you want me to call the cops? Christian says there's no need for that. And Courtney runs off again. This time she's running back to her car when Christian catches up with her. She can be her threatening him almost.

My dog's better be in there. So maybe they left a window or a car door open in their fight. I'm not sure. But he's reassuring her like they're right there Courtney. They're right there and we hear a slap. This wasn't my dog man. This is my dog. Sorry. Oh, both my dogs better be in there. Right there. You are so lucky about my dog.

You are so lucky. my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog.

You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog.

You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog. You are so lucky about my dog and she's slapping him and he's asking her to stop slapping him. She's upset about her dogs being left alone in the car. He's trying to argue with her. I had to leave them in the car because I was chasing after you and she's still upset. There is no reasoning with her. We do hear what sounds like her hitting him again and he keeps apologizing like, okay, I'm sorry, but stop hitting me. So from the recording, I,

you can tell that Christian is getting frustrated, but it does seem like he's trying to help Courtney. There is no point where he's trying to instigate her egg her on, make the situation worse, but she's just getting so angry. She's really just not open to seeing any reasoning. He tries to calm her down. He tries to tell her about the dogs. Her behavior seems completely erratic and completely unexplainable.

Now, I did see a question circulating online, which is, what if Christian is acting this way because he's recording and he's out in public? Maybe he's just better and smarter at hiding his true emotions in public. So maybe Courtney is reacting this way because she feels crazy that he's just playing the victim now. And I can kind of see that argument be true in some cases or to certain extents in other

cases. But I don't know, okay? This recording, like I don't know how you can really explain this way. Like I know sometimes toxic relationships make you feel crazy, but this is just a lot, and it gets a lot worse. And the reason that I bring this up is that there have been a lot of controversy around the fact that some argue that Courtney was also a victim, if not the only victim. So even Julia Fox, a huge social media personality, got a bunch of backlash for going on TikTok and commenting that Courtney stabbed her boyfriend in self-defense. That garnered a lot of backlash.

She ended up taking it down and it's just really complicated because I do think that there are a lot of things that play, a lot of information hasn't been released, the trial hasn't happened, the defendant is maintaining her innocence, but also I think that maybe there's a narrative issue with the fact that the victim is black, but we're going to get into all of that. but also I think that maybe there's a narrative issue with the fact that the victim is black, but we're gonna get into all of that. Maybe if it was just this one audio recording, I could maybe believe this narrative

that Courtney was the ultimate victim. Maybe I could try to like force my brain into it, but there are so many bizarre instances where Courtney is the primary aggressor. I'm not saying Christian is perfect, and I'm not saying that Christian was not toxic, but Courtney really comes after Christian. So this audio recording was taken early February of 2022. The next incident is February 21st, 2022.

So the same month, just like near the end of the month, probably the most infamous clip that is associated with this case is CCTV camera footage from the elevator of their Miami High Rise building. You can see on the CCTV camera that it was taken at around 8.30 pm, and you can see Courtney entering the elevator first, pressing the button to her floor, and as soon as Christian enters, she's visibly upset. She starts aggressively slamming against the elevator and starts slapping Christian on the chest, his arms back even his head, and at first Christian doesn't fight back. He had one of his arms up to kind of shield himself from it,

but that was about it. The more she keeps going though, he decides he's got to do something. So he grabs her in a headlock and just kind of holds her there. She still keeps slapping him around. Towards the end He starts aggressively shoving her off of him and shaking his head and they're both arguing while they're fighting There have been some debates because Christian has kind of seen smiling in like a little bit of this footage whether it's like a stress response whether he was taunting her I don't know, but regardless she definitely hit him first and he did taunting her, I don't know, but regardless, she definitely hid him first, and he did not hit her back. He's just pushing her a little aggressively off of him, but that's it. And you can clearly see that they continue fighting once they enter their apartment.

There is no explanation for why this fight happened, nor do we know how much further it escalated, but this video says a lot. Because this video is able to concretely illustrate Courtney as an abuser in the relationship. I'm not saying the only abuser, but as an abuser. So even as she's throwing punches, Christian initially is not fighting back. Never raises a hand to her. So at the very least, they're both abusive, but at the very worst, she is the primary abuser and he the victim. Because later, Courtney seemingly tries to paint it as she is the ultimate victim in this.

This video kind of proves otherwise. I think this will be very hard for her defense attorneys to talk about in court. It's also speculated that Courtney was high during this altercation because, again, her behavior is incredibly erratic. But not long after this fight, Christian texts Courtney voicing his concerns. He's just wants to talk about how their relationship is evolving. He writes to her, just so you know, I woke up feeling like shit and feeling stupid.

Not like stupid as in our relationship, but stupid as in like what I told you the other day is love gonna kill me. Like I know both of us have sacrificed a lot for each other, but I can only talk about what I sacrificed. I've sacrificed my pride, my ego, sometimes telling myself how I don't need to win. Hey, just let her have her way. Say sorry right now, and even if she asks you to sincerely or with a threat, I've been there for you plenty of times more than I can imagine, more than anybody else that I could think of. I've cried with you, cried about you, I cried against you, but at the end of the day,

it was all for love and that's what I'm saying. Do you see that? My love for you? Do you actually feel it? Do you actually understand it? Do you even think it's real? I always think about, damn man, okay, Christian, you took all of this, but why? Because you love her?

Okay. Time after time after time after time. I tell you love her, okay? Time, after time, after time, after time. I tell you, hey, please, like you're hurting me. And yes, you'll say, yeah, but then it just repeats. Like, what if the knife sliced my lip? What if it didn't slice my beard? What if it sliced my cheek or my eye? Like, what might happen next?

I mean, I pray that there's no next time. But yeah, I can see that you want to give me physical touch. I see it and sometimes it's hard to not give it back. I think that's maybe not physical touches and like loving touch. But I do think it's just at these same time, are you for real this time? Is this saying the right words or doing the right thing

for a couple days? And then if I say the wrong thing to you one day, it all goes away. February was the worst month I've had so far. I got cheated on. I got called that word again. I got slapped in my stitches that reopened multiple times and isn't healing fast enough. I've gotten kicked out. Memories of my girlfriend and I traveling have been thrown away. The apartment that my girlfriend Swore to me and said regardless of anything we're not messing this up, we're not messing this up, we messed it up. I'm honestly just trying to have a couple of things off

my chest before therapy. Now, a couple of things, I do think that it's important to note that he's trying to go to therapy. I think this text message is also very heartbreaking and it's really, I think it's a clear window into the mind of a domestic violence victim. Just the way that he keeps doing all these mental cartwheels to try and justify her behavior. The way he also repeatedly tries to calm her down by mentioning his undying love for her. Even when he's expressing the pain of her violence, he's mentioning, but like I love you. He's doing it very softly as if he's trying not to trigger her. And side note, a couple of things. I think the reference of messing up this apartment,

I think that they got a lot of notices from the leasing agent that they're gonna get evicted if they don't slow down with their domestic noise disturbances. So I guess again, this is why I think that maybe Miami was like they're saving grace. They're, oh, we're gonna get to Miami. Look at this place. We're gonna be this happy couple like the beginning when we first started dating and then they kind of messed it up. And then also side note, he mentions, I got called that word again. Courtney had a tendency to call him the n-word, the racial slur when they fought. He had texted her once, your boyfriend is black and you're talking to him like that. And he had a tendency to call him the n-word, the racial slur when they fought.

He had texted her once, your boyfriend is black and you're talking to him like that. Your boyfriend isn't dirt. Why are you spitting on him? Christian texted Courtney that. Because it seems like when they fight, she really goes really low. Why would you break into these apartments? For money, for drugs, whatever was in there. Why aren't you afraid of getting caught at doing this?

No, who's gonna catch us? What a police. It was the height of the crack era, and instead of locking up drug dealers, some New York City cops had become them. I would suit up in my uniform and we're gonna want some drug dealers and I know how to do it really well.

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be heard saying, I'm actually fucking not having a good day where I actually literally fucking want to kill you, but you don't take me seriously. Decide right now if you're done gaslighting me. He says, I'm mad that you told me I told you so many times that I don't know, I apologized and you hit me. And she's heard saying, shut the fuck up. Other times, Christian would text her things like, but you hurt me, Courtney, you hit me. And she would just respond, shut the fuck up bitch, don't say shit like that. So again, there's several

interpretations you can get from these snippets of their relationship. The prosecutors argue that Courtney wants to keep the abuse hidden, hence the shut the fuck up, right? And she wants to continue abusing him like any abuser would. Courtney and her defense attorneys would argue that Christian had a habit of exaggerating and documenting her side of the abuse while never acknowledging his side. So saying things like, you hurt me, you hit me. Maybe she feels like I didn't even hit you. And so she'd get pissed off, so she would respond in that manner.

That is their argument. There are several other times Courtney yells at Christian to go to the police because she has stuff she wants to tell them to. Now fast forward to the end of March 23rd of 2022. This is one of the final couple of fights between the couples before they break up for a bit and then Christian dies.

In an audio recording that was secretly recorded, you can hear Courtney screaming at the top of her lungs, going through what law enforcement would later refer to as a psychotic episode. She's screaming about how Christian went on a bike ride and during that bike ride, he ran into one of Courtney's friends He said hi to Courtney's friend, but when he got home He failed to mention that he said hi to one of her friends her friend called her and was like, oh, yeah

By the way, I saw Christian today Courtney lost her mind. She called him several racial slurs screaming at him threatening him and she said Beep come here. Let me slap you, find my phone. Get me alcohol, get me alcohol, you're a fucking con. Ask beep, bitch, shut the fuck up. I need my phone, don't touch me. He says, what is going on? Are you going to get this mad at me when I'm apologizing

to you? No question, drop your act. Drop the high pitch. You talk to her. You know exactly what the right thing to do is. Yes, I know. I'm sorry. Get me my phone. You have your phone.

No, I don't. Find it and charge it. And he's like, stop screaming. I'm sorry. And she's screaming. Find my fucking phone and charge it Just to be clear. She's mad that he say hi to a friend. Yeah, so this is where it gets a little bit confusing She goes on to say you always wanted to fuck her you fucking beep

You literally told me about it and I was like damn you are such a and she ends up spitting on him during the argument, and she keeps screaming, you talk to her without telling me. He's explaining, I was literally on a bike ride, and I said hi to her. That's it, like my bad, I forgot to tell you, but that doesn't give you the right to call me a fucking beep. And she says, you are a beep. I think the recording speaks for itself. There is no justifying this type of behavior.

Some of her friends would try to justify it by pointing out that she is extremely jealous in her relationship, and Christian agreed that he would tell her about any woman that he spoke to on a daily basis. Like a daily report. But I guess you forgot about this incident. Now it's also been said that Christian has had been interested in this mutual friend before, which upset Courtney. It's just incredibly erratic and unhinged behavior.

The exact timing is unclear, but according to Courtney, around this time, the two break up for good, but Christian would remain in the apartment complex. Now this is where it gets complicated because they move into this apartment complex together. They both live there. All of his stuff is there. This is very much his home as much as it is hers, but she pays for the rent. So I believe allegedly she claims that she pays

for all 10,000 dollars a month, and he pays zero of the rent. So she kind of just kicks him out. But he has nowhere to go, so sometimes he would sleep in public places inside of the apartment building. Sometimes he would sleep in front of the elevator that opened up to their unit because,

remember, there's like an elevator room? But it's still technically private because not, it's not open to the public, it's not a hallway. But they did break up and Courtney even invited her mom to fly in from Texas to be with her. Some say it was to help her get over this breakup. Courtney would say that it was because she was terrified of Christian who refused to leave her alone

and refused to leave the apartment building. So she asks her mom to come and it's unclear. So even Courtney's story seems to change a few times, but they break up and then two days before the death, a big fight occurs. Again, the fight would happen in the early hours of April 2, 2022. Courtney comes down to the lobby. She had managed to lock herself out of her apartment. Christian was sleeping in the lobby, and Courtney walks back into the elevator, and I guess he's approaching her, maybe trying to get back upstairs or something, and she puts her hands

up in front of her as if to stay. Stay away. Several witnesses, mainly the staff, they see this unfold. And also this elevator fight should not be confused with the previous elevator fight where she was the primary aggressor and she was like smacking him in the elevator. This is a completely new one. The security at the apartment, they see this and they call the police on Christian. For a few reasons, one employee said that the boyfriend Christian was charging towards Courtney, so he called the police. Other employees

said that Christian was already sleeping around in the lobby, and he wasn't allowed to do that. And this incident just was like the tip of the iceberg. But the concierge did elaborate, and they said they called the police because of Christian's demeanor. They heard Courtney say, oh no, do not come inside the elevator. The employee remembers asking Courtney, what do you

want us to do with him? Because he just can't sleep in the lobby. You know, some of the residents are asking, what is he doing sleeping in the lobby? Like, do you want him to leave? To which he claims, no, I don't want him to leave. She states all of this. She just doesn't want him to come into the elevator.

I think maybe she took his key, and this was his chance to get back upstairs. So that floor, so he's like charging towards the elevator, is my speculation. Anyway, the police arrive, and the employee continues by stating that he on several occasions asked Courtney if Christian should be kicked off the premise. She rejected. The employee continued that Christian wasn't allowed in the common areas unless he's a resident, but only Courtney was on the lease, so he's technically not a resident.

They said Courtney came down and they just saw Christian charging towards her. They said we actually try to get into the middle of it. The boyfriend came after her and we just said enough is enough. Police need to be called. She said she doesn't want the police called and I said when this concerns the common areas I need to put out the residence first. Courtney is seen on body cam footage telling the police, I pay for everything. I pay $10,000 a month of rent which he pays zero of.

He has never paid a freaking dime of rent and he has somehow made friends with everyone here. I broke up with him. He's like, my mom came out, okay? My mom came out to like help me break up with him and I just couldn't do it. He slept in my elevator room inside of a couch. I hope that there's a camera. Like he slept inside of my couch in my elevator room, which is stalking because he's not supposed to be here. I want a restraining order. So now Courtney is indicating to the police that she wants Christian out.

She thinks that he is stalking her, she is afraid. Which side note, I am not trying to demean her feelings towards the situation. I think she can be afraid. Maybe she has every right to be afraid. We don't know for sure, but it's just a lot of different inconsistencies I think. She continues, I just feel like I haven't always been the victim, but right now I am a freaking victim. I'm so scared. I just want my dogs. I just want them. Please. I'm so scared.

Where she say, I haven't always been a victim? Yeah, so again, a lot of people think that it's... It's a weird way of talking. Yeah, and then later being like, I'm the victim. So while talking to the police, Courtney is holding her phone and her mom is on speaker. She even asks the officer to speak with her mom so that they can reassure the mom that everything is okay. She continues, I don't care what happens.

I just never want to deal with this again. The police say they can't do anything about it. They inform her, yeah, you're the one on the lease, you're the one paying. But when you guys moved in together and all of his stuff is in there, it's technically his home. So we can't get him out because he's not trespassing. So the police are saying legally, we can't do anything. Maybe the apartment complex can evict Courtney. Maybe they can try to get him off the premise, but they as police cannot say this is not your home because you're not paying rent. So they refuse to get him out of there. The police cannot forcibly remove him from the apartment is what they're telling her. But Courtney continues, I'm not comfortable.

He's stalking me. My mom has been here for a week and she caught him in the elevator room sleeping. She went outside and saw something moving in there and she saw him. I just want to be exonerated, I guess, like if anything goes wrong. I want him, I want to restraining order against him because I'm serious. Can I do that? Where can I do that? How can I make myself get one first? Because I know him. He would do it first. I've not always been the victim, but like right now, I really am a victim. I've not always been the victim, but like right now, I really am a victim. I'm even scared to walk my dogs.

It's important to note that even though the police repeatedly ask her why she feels so unsafe with him, she doesn't really give a clear response. That's not to say that she can't feel the way she feels or she doesn't actually feel scared, but she just dodges the question by saying she's not comfortable, which is interesting. And also later in the interrogation, when asked about how their fights typically start,

she just brushes it off by saying, I don't know, I don't remember everything, I don't want to remember it. So there's two online interpretations of her actions in this fight. One group of people, Courtney and her defense attorneys included, are trying to say that Courtney here is trying to protect her abuser by saying she doesn't remember how the fights start by saying she doesn't know and doesn't want to answer why she's so scared for her life. The other group of people think she's just trying to hide her own abuse or it gets really messy where she's not as innocent as she portrays

herself to be. Also the part where she states that Christian was sleeping in the elevator room, she makes it sound part where she states that Christian was sleeping in the elevator room, she makes it sound like her mom snumbled upon Christian was so alarmed and shocked, right? There are text messages going back to a few months ago where Christian complained that she made him sleep in the elevator room after a fight. So again, I'm not saying that they can't be shocked,

but it seems like this wasn't a first time thing where they're like, oh my God, you slept in the elevator room? You know, the kid had done it quite often before. But again, we don't know the full extent of their situation after this breakup, but the fight becomes very important to Courtney's defense later. They try to use this fight to show that Courtney was genuinely worried for her life. The police did not assist her in getting away from Christian. Also, the employees of the condo see Christian as the forceful one in this fight as the aggressor, the employees of the condo see Christian

as the forceful one in this fight as the aggressor. Even though he never raised his hand or voice at her, it is described that he charged at her, which gives off a very aggressive connotation. The police also note in their report that Courtney had several visible bruises on her arms and legs. They didn't look for more bruises,

but they also added Courtney seemed to be heavily intoxicated, and she was at least comprehensible, though. Now, after Courtney leaves, the employee who called the police explains to the officers that he called them because it was clear to him that Courtney the resident doesn't want question here. He also mentions to the police,

which Courtney did not mention herself, that Courtney herself is now in the process of being evicted due to extensive history of domestic disturbances. She was served eviction papers just a few days prior to this incident. But what's kind of shocking is that after this fight, the two end up making up. Christian posts on Instagram, and it was actually his very last Instagram post, where he's giving Courtney a kiss on the cheek and he's talking about how much he loves her. And within a few days, he would be dead. Another 9-1-1 call was made from the luxury Miami high-rise apartments.

This time, Courtney was calling herself. She's screaming at the dispatch that her boyfriend is dying of a stab wound. Yet a 3-inch stab wound in his chest above his Courtney tattoo. He was bleeding out and he can be heard in the background saying, I can't feel my arm, I can't feel my arm. She's crying and saying, baby, I'm so sorry, baby, I'm so sorry. The dispatch is trying to get her to focus on giving them the address so that they can get there, but she's distracted by apologizing, she doesn't, and it's actually Christian who

ends up giving the dispatch the address to their condo. The police arrived minutes later, Christian is taken to the hospital where he would succumb to his wounds and pass. He was 27 years old and he was going to be turning 28 in a week. So what happened? Let's talk about the events. And it's a lot of it is from Courtney's side, Courtney's interrogation, so it gets weird. It's a Sunday, April 3rd, 2022. Everything starts off pretty pleasant for the couple. They made up, they're not fighting, they're sleeping in the same bed, they're saying,

I love you. There are videos from Christian's phone that show him and Courtney just having fun that morning. Dancing in music, lip syncing to songs. from Christian's phone that show him and Courtney just having fun that morning. Dancing in music, lip syncing to songs. Their dogs are involved, Courtney starts dancing and you can hear Christian supporting her, like hyping her up. It's honestly the only healthy video that we've seen of them together.

Later that morning, Courtney posts a photo of herself on OnlyFans, and it looks like she's at a plastic surgeon's office. But disregard this in the timeline. It seems like that photo was taken and scheduled to go up, so I don't think she actually went to a doctor's office that day, at least not that we know of. As the day progresses, Courtney's doing laundry while watching a true crime video on YouTube, then she gets a bit hungry and they decide to grab subway. Christians like, oh, well, I can just go down to subway

and grab subs for the both of us. He even recites her order before he leaves to make sure that he got it right. Courtney does not recall if he was walking there or biking there. It would have taken him 15 minutes to walk there. It would have taken a six minute bike ride, but Christian was gone for about 40 minutes,

which honestly isn't that long because his travel time would take anywhere between 12 and 30 minutes back and forth and then waiting in line, waiting for the food, getting it, coming back, it honestly seems pretty reasonable. He leaves the apartment at around 355 p.m. He is seen on the phone with someone in the elevator and it doesn't appear to be Courtney. When Christian was gone, Courtney decides to check his location on the Find My Phone app. Find my iPhone. She goes into the app and she realizes that he turned it off so she can't track him anymore. He manually removed her access, but it made sense because they did break up a week ago,

so he turned it off when they were broken up. And she knew this, but he had promised her that he was going to turn it back on, and now it wasn't on. So just six minutes after he leaves, she's blowing up his phone. She's calling him, demanding he turn it back on right then and there. She's calling several times, but he doesn't pick up. A few minutes later, Courtney pops on Instagram to do a live Q&A session. The video was up, but has since been taken down. She goes on live and starts talking about her nails, asking her fans to ask her dirty questions.

She is dancing around in the same outfit she would later be soaked in blood in. One of your viewers asks her, where do you see yourself in five years? This is when she responds. I want to kid a few houses, businesses, probably not OF, but we'll see. This question is so haunting because it's slightly reminiscent of a girl in her YouTube videos from way back when she was talking about these same things and dreaming about having a family and having this beautiful child and she ends the life. She says, all right, y'all, I got subway so I'm going to ditch you. I'm going to eat and yeah, I'm

going to do like an OF live tonight. So if you want me to answer your question, just like put them in my last post. Like I'll see it, love you, thank you guys, love you, bye. Enter live calls Christian again, he picks up. Now the rest of the story comes from Courtney and she explains their plan, original plan before this whole location thing. They were gonna eat subway, take the dogs on a walk

at a pretty park nearby, have a cute little romantic date and then she would go on OF and she said that you know Yeah, we had broken up, but we were moving on from it. We We were doing great even to the extent of promising each other to never touch each other physically again like that out of anger Christian promised her to never gaslight her again She would also later say that the incident when the police were called, whereas just the apartment lobby employees wanting to start some shit, which is weird because she asked for a training order in that incident, so it's all very confusing. But she said that they had been good since then.

She was happy. She missed Christian. She loved waking up Tim. He would shower her with love in the mornings. And this statement is at least believed to be true, that they were doing okay because even Christian's videos stayed so. Christian walks back in the door with their subway, and Courtney is waiting for him. Not the food.

She is so upset about this location-sharing thing being off. She even admits later that she overreacted a bit, and that the fight was completely pointless. According to her though, the minute Christian walked in through the door, she said something very petty along the lines of, so are you gonna reshare your location with me or not? And he's like, okay, fine, I'll share it with you, but what about you? You also have a turn-dough. And she's like, oh, why would I do that?

Because the other day, when you were done with me, and then I guess she was like, okay, fine, I'll reshare it. They're bickering, they're arguing a bit, but they sit down, eat their subway, and as they're eating, they're kind of snapping at each other. They end up resharing their locations, but Courtney was still being very petty. And in an emotional moment, Christian stated, why don't you just find one of those guys in a G-wagon. Now side note, this is something that Courtney had said in a

petty fight. She insinuated that she was the breadwinner and she was the conventionally attractive one, so she could go out and just find a guy in a G-Wagon if she really wanted to. Which is very expensive car, I think, like $200,000. This comment somehow led to things escalating. According to Courtney, she and Christian ended up just fighting and Christian pinned her up against the wall holding her by her throat. She said she was choking and screaming that she couldn't breathe. Apparently, Christian did not react. Courtney starts to hit him to get him off of her and again, this is her story. She also adds that he attempted to strangle her multiple times prior to pinning her up against the wall,

which is kind of pertinent later. Also for reference, Courtney is 5'8 and 116 pounds. Christian is 6'2, 210 pounds. He finally drops her and she falls to the ground. Christian is pissed. She said that he was talking through his teeth, making it hard for her to understand what he was saying. Courtney said that she was terrified.

She ran and grabbed her phone that was charging in the kitchen, called her mom at 4.43 pm. This is about 10 minutes after Christian walked in with Subway. Her mom is telling her on speakerphone that they're too toxic, they shouldn't be together. Courtney said that this really pissed off Christian. Because maybe this wasn't the first time she called her mom during a fight, and it is kind of strange behavior for sure. Like, I can't imagine if we were fighting and you just called your mom. And put her on speakerphone and she's like, Stephanie, you gotta stop doing this. I think I'd be very confused and upset.

Now, according to Courtney, she's in the kitchen talking to her mom and Christian was near the couch. She said that she was getting scared because she couldn't see the whites of his eyes because he was so angry. She said he was terrified. She grabbed one of the kitchen knives that her mom had gifted her Christmas, which if you're getting knives as presents, they're pretty high quality knives. This one was like a very expensive knife. It had a serrated blade to it, but it wasn't blunt and almost softer like a bread knife. It looked like a high quality knife that used to cut steaks and meats. She said that she just wanted to hold it to scare Christian.

She claimed she said don't come anywhere close to me. She said she had no intention of using this knife. She just wanted to scare him but it didn't work. She claims Christian started aggressively charging towards her. She flung the knife at him, didn't even think about where it would land or how it would land just through it and repeatedly stated she didn't stab him. She said I didn't even think about where it would land or how it would land just through it and repeatedly stated she didn't stab him. She said, I didn't stab him. He was about 10 feet away. I threw the knife and he fell down.

According to her story, he was still very close to the couch. She ran over Tim, still on the phone with her mom and she's screaming, oh my god, oh my god, what did I do? What did I do? He was the one that told her to call someone. She's on the phone with her mom when she threw the knife. Her mom could hear her and both of them freaking out. The two moved to the laundry closet though.

Just dragging blood everywhere. Like, I don't know if they had a kid there or something to stop the bleeding perhaps, but it's just odd. Christian is bleeding a lot, and she said she kept telling him about his mom and grandma to get him to stay with her. He kept trying to lay down and close his eyes. She also stated that the knife had come out of his chest. She said, if you watch Game of Thrones or anything, you know not to pull it

out, referring to the knife, I think. I don't know, maybe he pulled it out or maybe it fell out. referring to the knife, I think. I don't know, maybe he pulled it out or maybe it fell out. Maybe she's trying to explain the excessive bleeding that Christian had. It was a lot of bleeding, so the knife actually had an artery. At around 4.46 p.m., other residents in the apartment were calling security to report a domestic dispute and crazy loud shouting.

At around 4.49 p.m., the call with Courtney's mom gets disconnected. Courtney calls her back. They finally hang up at 4.56 pm, and it was only at 4.57 pm after hanging up with her mom that Courtney calls 911. Wait, how long has that been? Like 10 minutes. Are you freaking kidding me? And again, maybe this timeline will be debunked later on.

This is kind of like law enforcement's tentative timeline before the trial that's been released. So if this timeline is proven to be 100% true, it's really bad. They arrive and rush Christian to the hospital, but he's still pronounced dead at the hospital. They could not save him. He was just 27 years old.

There are photos released by the police of the couples apartment. I don't think I'm going to show them in the YouTube video, but if you guys are watching Spotify, Rod and Mingo videos, it might be on there because it's incredibly graphic. The couples apartment is soaked in blood. It's also extremely messy. It's unclear if the mess was a result of a fight or if it was just always this messy. But even just the blood, it's everywhere and there is a lot of blood. There's also a TMZ video of Courtney in her underwear with her hair down just completely drenched in blood.

The video was recorded from someone in the opposite building who had direct view into Courtney's unit. This video has been picked apart by netizens. So this is when police get there and they're worried and focused on Christian mainly. With someone from a completely different building was recording into her building. Mm-hmm.

Courtney is trying to calm her dogs down. She seems a lot more focused on her dogs than she is on Christian, which people thought was very telling. I'm not a body language expert, okay? I just don't know. It is weird. It's pretty easy to guess that Courtney would probably not be home right away.

Maybe at least not the night. Right. Like, she's going to be taken to the police station. So her mom texts her to mention self-defense to the police and to not speak with anyone without a lawyer present. I don't think Courtney ever saw this much such because the interrogation is a mess. Courtney does try to get an attorney,

but for some reason she doesn't outright ask for one. Maybe, see, that's the thing with police, okay, they make you feel really guilty if you ask for an attorney, bite the bullet, feel guilty. Not that I'm trying to help Courtney, but you get it. She also just keeps asking for her dad and she's saying, oh, I need to talk to my dad so my dad can get me an attorney, but the detectives this part I do not appreciate they just persuade her against it and they argue that since she never flat out said I want an attorney

They kept questioning her and with enough pressure Courtney starts talking throughout the interrogation Courtney continues to ask how Christian is doing and This is really bizarre, okay? But an officer is like, oh Christian is fine right now like we talked to him and She's like well, she says we talked to the victim. He's fine. She's how thank God So they don't have to do surgery. Thank God the detective is like well, I'm not quite sure but we'll find out later Will I get the chance to see him today? Wait, so does the detective know that he has passed?

Um, this is like right before he passes. Oh, okay, okay. So Courtney is asking, will I get to see him today? And the detective is like, who? Christian. This part is wild, but the detective goes, who is that? Are the victims? Yes, the victim. I don't know if I'm the victim, but he's definitely the victim today. And the detective is like, sorry, they didn't give me his name. Okay, this whole, like, both sides are bizarre to me. The fact that the detective did not know his name, bizarre. Also the fact that she's like, I don't know if I'm the victim.

But like, yeah, the victim today. Usually when someone is stabbed, they're the victim. But like, what is social etiquette, right? So throughout the interrogation, the police were able to pinpoint Usually when someone is stabbed, they're the victim. But like, what is social etiquette, right? So throughout the interrogation, the police were able to pinpoint a few inconsistencies in Courtney's stories such as, if he was strangling you, why did he just let you go so you could run into the kitchen?

Then later, she would say she threw the knife and then she changed it to I flung the knife. Courtney was crying throughout the interrogation. She frequently asked about Christian state, which a lot of people say, oh, she's a caring girlfriend. But more people say, no, because she ends up saying something along the lines of, she doesn't say this part, but like, if he passes, that's a lot worse for me.

But at the end of the day, that's a lot worse for everyone. Saying, basically, if Christian passes, it would be a lot worse for her legally, judicially. So it shows that perhaps her interest in Christians while being is a bit more selfish than were led to believe. Courtney also brings up a few things during the interrogation. She brings up an incident where she claims Christian was trying to self-harm. She said that she was freaking out trying to help him, but she was so scared for his life. So after all these hours of getting information out of Courtney, they finally

inform her that Christian has passed. She does seem upset. She does seem genuinely upset compared to some of the bizarre interrogations we've seen, but she also oddly asks for a hug. She said, can I get a hug? Yeah, and then she's like, or can I get my mom to come give me a hug? I don't know. It's a bit odd. She also states, I'm gonna wake up tomorrow and it's going to be the same thing, huh? Last time I ever talked to him, last time,

anyone ever talked to him, last time he, last thing he fucking ate was subway. I swear I was holding him for so effing long, the security landing was just standing there and I just kept thinking, why is it taking so long? He was just bleeding and bleeding and bleeding and bleeding. Courtney also asks if Christian's family have been called to come to Florida for his body.

She states that his birthdays and eight days and most of his family is in Texas or in Nigeria. Now I bring this up because the police have been heavily criticized for the way that they handle the victim's family. Side note, the cops ask Courtney for Christian's parents' names and she blanks out and she's silent. And she says, you know, he told me and I met her multiple times, referring to his mom, but I'm just so horrible with names. She didn't even remember his brother's name.

Which again, maybe it could be shock, because this is just hours after what happened, but it does strike a lot of people as odd. Courtney does give her consent for the officers to search her house, but ultimately, what is shocking to everyone is that Courtney was not arrested. In fact, she would not be arrested for a very long time. And after the death of her boyfriend, Courtney continued posting on OnlyFans. She made about $40,000 since Christian's death and her final arrest, which drew so much criticism. Okay, some people that are on Courtney's side in support of her, they argue that she

probably had assistance that had things pre-filmed and were scheduled to go up. I don't know how the OF platform works, but I know how other social media platforms work. You can go in and de-schedule them to go up. And even if your assistants are in charge of it, you are free, you have communication with them. I just think out of general respect for the victim's family, I would not be posting. And she had a lot of money saved up. Like millions of dollars liquid cash. So this is not a

situation where it's like, hey Stephanie, you can say that, but someone needs to pay rent. She had the ability to. I just think it's weird. Just five days after Christian's death, Courtney was spotted at a bar with her dad. A woman was following this case in Florida, saw them and she was infuriated, she started filming them, and she's heard saying to Courtney, yeah you should go because you just killed your boyfriend, yeah you did. Courtney is upset and she is seen leaving the bar with her dad, clearly angry. Her lawyer will later state, Courtney was there for a night out with her father who simply wanted to pop in and have a drink in private. They were disrupted by this woman who started filming.

Courtney's friends also came to her defense to argue that this bar is right underneath Courtney's apartment complex, so it's not like they drove to a bar to get drunk. And near the end of the video, she's yelling at the woman filming like, you have no idea he tried to kill me. Look, regardless of what comes out during the trial, I do think this bar situation is bizarre. Like you can have a drink at home. I also think it's really disrespectful for both of them to be at a bar. Like let's say, for somehow some way shape or form this truly comes out to be a case

of self-defense, I still can't imagine going to a bar or thinking that's appropriate, because at the end of the day day a life was still taken. And even in most self-defense cases, the victims or the person who, and I'm not saying this was a self-defense case, but I'm just saying, hypothetically, if it is, the people who end up taking a life, they don't feel justified typically. They don't feel like, well, they were self-defense, so I'm just going to move on with my life. They're usually so traumatized, especially if it's someone as close to them as their romantic partner. And I also think that it's kind of telling about her family.

Like, my dad would probably smack me if I tried to do that. Like, I just don't think it's... I just don't think it's correct. Christian's family were very disappointed to see that Courtney was not only a free woman, but she was almost publicly flaunting her freedom. It just felt really gross and really disrespectful. Even a lot of people who initially supported Courtney saw this and felt like it was a lack of remorse that was showing through. Now, as the trial date is coming to head, it is clear that both sides are coming in syncing their feet in. The prosecutors with the evidence that she is an abuser

and killed Christian, and the defense painting a more complicated picture where they had a toxic relationship. But ultimately, Courtney is the victim of domestic violence and she defended herself that day as self-defense. They will most likely say that she was in fear for her life. And there are just a lot of conflicting statements out there. Some neighbors do state that anytime they saw Courtney alone, she was so happy.

But whenever Christian was around, she seemed very distraught. Another neighbor said that they saw Christian grab Courtney by the arm. A third neighbor said they saw Christian punch Courtney in the head once. And as mentioned earlier, the employees of the lobby said they saw Christian charging at Courtney in the lobby the day that the police came. But on the other end, a lot of mutual friends said Courtney was the main aggressor. They said she was the one throwing punches all the time. There were other neighbors that would back up these statements by saying that Courtney was always abusive to Christian. I'm sure that as Courtney's trial begins, we're going to see a lot more

witnesses come out to testify considering, you know, how public their fights have been. But the thing is, another thing to note, Courtney does have an extensive history with law enforcement that I think needs to be mentioned. When she was still a minor and living in Austin, Texas with her family, she had gotten into a huge fight with her mom and it's unclear what the fight was about or how it escalated, but we do know that the sheriff's office was called to the home. Then in 2015 Courtney had a worn out for her arrest for public intoxication. about or how it escalated, but we do know that the sheriff's office was called to the home. Then in 2015, Courtney had a worn out for her arrest for public intoxication. She was only 18 years old and had to spend three days in jail.

Three years later, Courtney was back in Austin, got into a car accident, and there are documents to show that she is being sued by the woman that was involved in the crash. The lawsuit was settled out of court, but it's speculated that maybe, and again, this is all speculatory, that Courtney was drunk driving. There is no proof to back up these speculations. September 16th, 2020, Courtney was arrested in Austin, Texas for crashing her Mercedes, the police rushed to the scene and found an empty bottle of tequila in her car. Her alcohol limit was three times the legal amount, and she had to pay an $8,000 bond. She was forced to install a device in her car that measures her alcohol blood levels in the body before she can even drive.

The worst part is, Courtney had a show up to court for DUI charge. She ends up being a no-show in court. Like, what? This is not biology class. That's kind of wild to not show up to a DUI court hearing. She said later that she was advised by her lawyers to not show up because she was high when her court hearing was scheduled. Her lawyers thought it would be better for her to just altogether not show up rather than show up high. A previous boyfriend of court needs would come out and say that he felt threatened while he was dating court knee.

He said that she had pulled out an iPhone him on more than one occasion and he said and I quote, she attempted to stab me. And remember the speculations that she was the one responsible for breaking her ex-boyfriend Sean's jaw. Again, we don't know a lot of these speculations, but it's just a lot. Now one of Courtney's friends would later post a podcast after Courtney's situation. And she states that Christian was stealing money from Courtney and that's why Courtney was upset, which side note,

I don't think that was that smart of the friend to do that. Yeah, because that just gave her a love. Yeah, I think she was trying to exonerate her and show her as this amazing girlfriend that does all these great things for her boyfriend and her boyfriend is stealing her money, but it just adds more motive to Courtney of why she would kill Christian. But she continues, I've met Christian a few times and I've seen them in altercations already. I do believe that Courtney had substance abuse problems and I've seen a first hand, but her boyfriend always sat there, watched it, and just kind of laughed about it. This type of abuse is always overlooked. Maybe you should get this person some help before something happens.

Okay, a couple of things. Okay, a couple of things. This case is so complicated and I'm so stressed out researching about it because I'm almost sitting here trying to feel and make sure that I have no biases in my system, right? And I do think one thing is clear, okay? Just because there is a woman doesn't mean we need to support them, all right? Because I'm just thinking about this one statement and I don't know why it got to me. And I'm like, okay Stephanie, think about it if it were the other way around. If a guy is sitting there and is saying,

like, well the girlfriend should have gotten him help. Because he has substance abuse problems. I'd probably be flipping a table. So it's just, I guess it was just a kind of a bizarre statement. So I'm like, I keep feeling one type of way and then I'm like, wait, but then like, what if it's a bias and then I'm like, no, but then it's so, it's just such a messy case

because both parties are really leaning into it. The prosecutor and the defense, they're leaning into these biases. It's just, yeah. I guess the defense is leaning into the bias that women domestic violence abuse victims that are women are led to feel crazy. They feel like they're the ones that are always trying to protect their abusers even when it makes them look bad. It's just a lot. Now, another thing that adds another layer of complexity to the case are some of Christian's old tweets have resurfaced.

of Christians old tweets have resurfaced. And I don't want to sugarcoat it, but he wrote specifically about his preference for white woman, which I guess would be fine, had he not made a lot of disturbing comments about black woman. Some of the tweets read, once again, I'm tired of these black girls in my government class. The way black girls disgrace themselves on TV, I can't believe one of my friends

think I talk to black girls when I don't. I can't believe one of my friends think I talk to black girls when I don't. I want a white girl help. A lot of these tweets made a lot of people understandably upset. I personally don't think it's my place to dictate how a black woman or anyone else should feel about these tweets as I feel like I have no place in this conversation and I do think that these tweets are heinous and should not be taken lightly. I do see some people talking about this case and saying this is what Christian gets

for choosing a white girl. Race aside, race aside because I don't have a place in this conversation. Race aside, I just can't imagine what it would feel like to be Christian's family reading that, regardless of race. Like, doesn't matter what race he is, I just feel like that would be really difficult for a victim's family to read those types of mean things. I also have seen a lot of discourse of Black women not

feeling lifted up by Black men, so I do think that again there's just a lot of levels to this conversation that I just have no place in. Now, beyond this, beyond all of this, beyond the witness statements, there is one thing that I think will be very interesting is to see how the defense will react to the autopsy results. Because Christian was found with a sharp force injury. The knife was plunged three inches deep into his chest. Apparently, experiments on cadavers showed that it took about 12 pounds of force and to get through the muscle and the arteries,

the examiners believe that the depth and angle would have been caused by a face-to-face stab, kind of going like this. Now, they speculate that this is not something that could have happened when you throw a knife 10 feet away, but they also put a disclaimer that they are not knife throwing experts nor do they know how good Courtney is at throwing knives. So all of this is piling up. Courtney has still not been arrested. She was posting every day on OF and she was in freaking Hawaii. So right after the death of her boyfriend, she moves to Austin, Texas to be with her family again.

But from there, she was sent to a mental facility rehab in Hawaii. This is top of the top rehabs in the United States, $35,000 a month. The rehab claims that it's a luxurious private 8-bed holistic addiction center that hopes the deeply caring staff and surrounding natural beauty offer an unparalleled healing experience. Yeah, for $35,000 a month, it better do that and more. But Courtney was said to have been diagnosed with severe alcohol use disorder, cocaine disorder, and PTSD. I just can't imagine the anger that Christian's family must have felt when she was in Hawaii. They said the way that they found out about Christian's death was absolutely disgusting. Christian's death was absolutely disgusting.

Christian's mom was at work. When she got a call from a Miami medical examiner who was just like, hi, we want to know if you give permission to donate your son's organs. She was so shocked. This is the for nobody called her to a police didn't call. No. Why? I thought it's by law, they have to call.

Yeah, but I guess they called first because they're like, do you want to donate your sons? Or she was floored. And when she was shocked and she thought they had the wrong number, they verified it's Christian. And they're like, oh my God, you mean nobody from the medical examinations office called you? I think that is one of the most

disrespectful things I've heard in a while. It is so disgusting. Like, I get it, system medical errors happen, but with something like this, come on. And it gets worse. The family just wanted answers. So they keep contacting the detectives in charge of this case. And the detective was just brushing them off and giving them excuses like, you guys need to give me time to do my job. Then he finally called and said, I'm going to close the case. It's been like less than 24 hours since Christian died. He's like, hey, I'm giving you guys a courtesy call because I think I'm going to close the case. It was self defense. It's very clear. The detectives did not handle this case well. They didn't even, so remember

how Courtney said it was self defense because she was getting strangled? They didn't even take pictures of Courtney's neck because remember that is literally what her whole self defense case at the time. I don't know if it's changing right now was relying on. They didn't think to take pictures or log her injuries and I cannot help. The victim's family cannot help and most people online cannot help but feel like this is a racial issue because the victim is a black man.

There is so much racism surrounded of black people being more aggressive and she's like, oh, he was so aggressive, he was attacking me And then we have a white woman who is crying. Honestly, I can totally see it. I can totally see it. Even just the way that they are handling the victim's family is so disrespectful. It is, I think it's just so gross. So he basically just took our words and period. That's it.

No investigation, no reason. Didn't even take pictures of her neck. Like that to me is crazy. That to me is like you actually are not investigating. You are not like you have a story in your head. You're confirming it with her words. To me, you're not investigating. You're not trying to dig deeper. You're not trying to get all the evidence. Take a look at it from an objective standpoint. You're not trying to dig deeper, you're not trying to get all the evidence, take a look at it from an objective standpoint, you're not investigating. The family believe under no circumstances was Courtney justified in using deadly force. And they were devastated to find out that they were trying to rule it a self-defense, but not only that. Courtney and her legal team have really painted a nasty picture of this case. And I think a lot of people who read certain articles

also have a one-sided view of this case, and maybe that was the situation with Julia Fox. But a lot of it feels racist. Courtney has also insinuated that not only wish she evicted domestic violence, but evicted of human trafficking, basically insinuating that he was pimping her out. Can you imagine being Christian's family? Like can you imagine? A lot of people who knew Christians

said, you could see the change in him after he started dating Courtney. He was bright bubbly and then after he started dating her, he's always stressed. It's like a full-time job dating her. A lot of people argued that Christian was in it for Courtney's money, but they said, yeah, no. If you saw the way that she explodes on him in public places and restaurants smacking him around, I don't think anyone would stay for that kind of money. Like nobody. So August 10, 2022, four months after Christian's death, Courtney was detained and extradited back to Florida.

She was charged with second degree murder with a deadly weapon. Her defense team got right to work, and Christian's family said that they were devastated to learn that her defense was throwing out all of these allegations against Christian. And again, I think that this case has been kind of tricky to cover because I think with the evidence that we've been provided so far,

it is pretty damaging to Courtney, but we still don't know for sure what's going to come out during court. But I think one thing is clearer, nobody deserves to die. And I think the way that people are justifying it have been bizarre online. And another thing is, I don't know. And again, maybe this is biased, but I watched a Dr. Phil episode with Christian's family. Yeah, that one is just really, really rough to watch.

But I do think it is something to note, and a lot of Christian's family and friends have noted this, but we have been seeing video and audio tape after audio tape of a black man being calm, rational, and patient, and a white woman being irrational, erratic, violent and unhinged and yet there is still a debate online as of right now about if they were both abusive or if maybe he was more abusive than her which I think is says a lot like I think if the tables were turned if it was just even if Christian was, was the woman in this situation, I don't know, maybe things would also be different. It's just a lot. So as always, there hasn't been a trial. We don't know the full story.

Also, there is another shady aspect to this case. Sorry, the last thing. Right before she was arrested, she transferred all of her funds to her dad's bank accounts. And her father Kim said it was because Courtney could not take care of her own finances, but others say it was a ploy for them to bury her money so that she, if she was ever sued by Christian's family for wrongful death, they would not be able to get their hands on her money. As of December 2022, Courtney was rejected bail, and her trial is set to start sometime this year. But what are your thoughts on this case?

Were you kind of shocked that it took so long to arrest her? I mean, it's one thing to be innocent to prove in guilty, but there have been so many cases where self-defense has been clearer, like so clear, but they're still arrested that day and treated like a killer. Do you think it's raised? Do you think it's wealth? Do you think it's all of these things?

What did you think of her interrogation? Let me know and please stay safe. I will see you guys on Wednesday for the main episode. Bye.