Ricky Martin files a millionaire lawsuit against his nephew for extortion

Singer Ricky Martin filed a lawsuit against his nephew Dennis Yadiel Sánchez for crimes of extortion, damages, and requests compensation amounting to at least 30 million dollars.

This lawsuit before the Court of First Instance of the Superior Chamber of San Juan was filed after On July 21, the court filed the case against Ricky Martin after asking his nephew to annul the protection order requested..

Against the singer weighed a protection order based on Law 54, which protects victims of domestic violence, and that it had been granted ex parte at the beginning of July after Sánchez’s complaint.

According to the lawsuit filed today, the artist asks the court to “Defendant Sanchez is ordered to immediately refrain from communicating with Plaintiff and his family, either in person, by phone and/or through social networks”.

also that the court “order the defendant to pay the claimed damages, interest, costs and attorney’s fees”indicates the text released by Perfect Partners, the singer’s public relations firm in Puerto Rico.

“The defendant Sánchez has threatened and extorted the plaintiff that unless he is financially compensated, will continue with his campaign to assassinate his reputation and integrity through false accusations and malicious”, adds the text.

The lawsuit alleges that “Sanchez’s reckless, malicious, and culpable actions were motivated by a desire to expose Plaintiff to hate and contempt for his ‘fan base’ and for curtailing his business opportunities and destroying his reputation”.

These actions caused millionaire contracts and present and future artistic projects will be canceled to the plaintiff. The pecuniary damages are quantified in a sum not less than 10 million dollars.

In addition, it adds, they have caused damage to the plaintiff’s reputation that is quantified as of the date of filing this lawsuit. in a sum not less than 20 million dollars.

The lawsuit recounts how Sánchez contacted Ricky Martin on WhatsApp and Instagram on several occasions and even published his phone number before requesting the aforementioned protection order against him.

In addition, after the case was filed, he allegedly threatened him again. According to the text, less than a month after the court hearing and on August 12 and 14, Sánchez sent messages on Instagram to the singer, according to the lawsuit. These messages said “Uncle I need your help” and “how are you?”respectively, what the lawsuit understands as a “persecution and stalking that have no other explanation than to do even more damage to the plaintiff.”

Sánchez, 21, alleged at the time that he kept a romantic relationship with Ricky Martin for seven months and that, after the breakup, his uncle intimidated him and approached his home on several occasions. The singer always described the allegations as “completely false”.