Yahoo! Music, Jun 27, 2001 7:00 am PDT
(6/27/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- Rapper Juvenile was hit with a $5 million lawsuit by Jackson Saintagne, the man the rapper allegedly hit in the head with a champagne bottle during an altercation at the Improv Comedy Club in Miami on March 28. Juvenile was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a bottle, battery on a law-enforcement officer, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest without violence following the incident. The rapper was released on $17,000 bail and has subsequently entered a plea of not guilty.
Saintagne's attorney Andrew Boros said that his client has been hospitalized several times since the incident. Juvenile's attorney Morton Fry insists that his client is innocent. Witnesses have suggested that Saintagne may have provoked the rapper by being disrespectful to him during the comedy show.
In related news, Juvenile recently released a first single, "Set It Off," from his forthcoming album, Project English, due out August 28. "Set It Off" is currently Number 40 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.
-- Yves Salomon, New York
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