Is Dwayne Johnson being sued in a $3 billion kidnapping lawsuit?

Publish date: 2024-04-12

Dwayne Johnson’s recognition in Hollywood is as squeaky clean as his bald head. The former pro wrestler turned film famous person fairly actually has it written into his contracts that he can’t lose in a battle.

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In different phrases, his public persona is extra important than a good or believable story, and anything on display will have to match the off-screen perception he so meticulously cultivates. It is going without pronouncing then, that a $3 billion kidnapping lawsuit does now not bode smartly for Johnson’s hard-earned image. 

Indeed, Johnson’s identify was once slapped with a dirty scandal after courtroom paperwork acquired via Snopes revealed the actor has been indexed as a defendant in a kidnapping lawsuit with regards to a fellow former pro-WWE wrestler, Rhaka Khan, often referred to as Trenesha Biggers. 

Trenesha Biggers’ kidnapping lawsuit and what it has to do with Dwayne Johnson

Trenesha Biggers went by the name Rhaka Khan when she was employed through WWE, a occupation that in order that came about to overlap with Johnson’s. Although she mostly goes by means of the remaining identify Biggers, she is sometimes called Trenesha Sims and Trenesha Williams.

On Oct. 8, 2022, Biggers filed a lawsuit with the United States District Court, Southern District of New York accusing the defendants therein of conspiring “to kidnap Plaintiff [Biggers] and her two youngsters from Brighter Tomorrows Domestic Violence Shelter.”  

As it seems, Biggers has a history of home violence. In 2009, she accused ex-boyfriend and former pro-wrestler Kurt Angle of home violence. The fees had been eventually dropped all over the case’s initial hearing. Prior to that, Biggers accused Angle of violating a protection order; but he was additionally cleared of those charges. 

In 2019, 10 years later, Biggers claimed that Angle aided and abetted the kidnapping allegations she’s put forth in her lawsuit with the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. As it turns out, Angle is simply one in every of masses of other people and entities named in the lawsuit, and yes, Johnson is one among them. 

Biggers additionally claims her ex-husband, Ephram Sims stalked and kidnapped her and her two children throughout state lines despite being on energetic probation for circle of relatives violence. She asserts that law enforcement and all of the named defendants, Johnson included, assisted in the hassle. 

Yes, Dwayne Johnson was named as a defendant, but he is no longer the one celebrity

Dwayne Johnson is certainly named as a defendant in Bigger’s $3 billion lawsuit, however, he was no longer referenced via title in the written account of Biggers’ overarching statement or timeline of occasions. Instead, he is indexed as one of the vital many individuals and entities that law enforcement aided in terrorizing Biggers, or so she claims. 

In total, there are nearly four hundred named defendants. Several of them are repeated during the file, incessantly with a other spelling or totally capitalized instead of written in lowercase. A portion of the the hundreds of named defendants include: 

Several of the named Universities include Penn State University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Florida, Harvard, Yale, Florida State University, and the University of South Florida. 

The record is going on, with states like Colorado, Connecticut, and Illinois additionally included. To most sensible it off, Biggers indexed the United States of America as a defendant. (Yes, she’s suing the country.) The U.S. used to be some of the entities Biggers named greater than once, the second time around including a question mark — “USA?”

In 2019, right around the time Biggers claimed the whole international aided and abetted her kidnapping allegations, she was indexed as one in every of El Paso’s most wanted fugitives. The fee? “Interference with kid custody.” 

Biggers claims in the kidnapping lawsuit that El Paso Times falsely accused her of being a sought after fugitive. In addition to a 73-point list of all of the events that experience happened between 2015 and 2016, she demanded “reduction in the volume of $3 billion greenbacks.” Next to the date (Oct. 8, 2022), she signed her title, and next to that, she drew a tiny center. 

As of June 2023, the case has (unsurprisingly) been brushed aside by way of United States District Court Judge, Laura Taylor Swain. The order that brushed aside the swimsuit stated the next on the topic:

“The Court should push aside an IFP criticism or portion thereof, that is frivolous or malicious, fails to state a declare on which reduction could also be granted, or seeks monetary reduction from a defendant who is immune from such relief.”

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