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Azealia Banks has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Matty Healy, demanding an apology and $1 million after he threatened to slap her throughout a vicious on-line spat.
In a latest X/Twitter post, Banks shared a duplicate of the letter dated Saturday (December 7), accusing The 1975 frontman of threatening her with violence and making defamatory feedback.
The letter, ready by Banks’s lawyer Wallace Collins, demanded Healy cease making “additional threats and defamatory statements” and requested he make a “immediate public apology,” in addition to pay $1 million in damages to settle the matter.
“If we can not resolve this satisfactorily and expeditiously with out Courtroom intervention, then my consumer shall be compelled to start authorized motion instantly and search substantial financial damages in addition to authorized charges and applicable injunctive reduction,” the letter added.
X/Twitter has since eliminated the put up, citing that it violated the platform’s guidelines.
Collins confirmed to NBC’s Today that he ready the letter on Saturday on behalf of Banks, saying the 33-year-old rapper “unequivocally stands by the factual allegations and authorized claims as outlined within the December 7, 2024 letter.”
The Unbiased has contacted Healy’s consultant for remark.
Final week, the artists engaged in a web based dispute after Banks commented on an image of pop famous person Charli XCX, saying: “Charli was sooo fairly. Ugh.”
Healy, 35, then stepped in to defend Charli, who’s engaged to his bandmate George Daniel, writing: “All the ladies you assault appear to be culturally related, engaging, divisive and NICE folks. I feel this makes you jealous cos you’re so proficient however all the pieces else about you is a failure. Simply rap bro.”
Banks hit again with a cryptic menace: “I nonetheless don’t know any of your music however be sure you preserve all that s*** behind your keyboard. That is hiphop, and you might be very simple to arrange. A nasty bag, a nasty capsule. It solely prices $200 and an oz of weed to do you.”
Healy shot again: “I’ll f******slap you so arduous I’ll get a Guinness world report for the very best a rat some b***h calls a wig has ever flown.”
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After going through a wave of backlash for his comment, Healy deleted the message and issued an apology.
“Nah I can’t be saying I’m gonna hit a lady that’s insane I’m sorry. You simply can’t preserve being so imply about my mates and my mrs it’s actually hurtful will get me properly defensive,” he mentioned.
Following the heated trade, Banks wrote on X/Twitter that she deliberate on suing Healy for his feedback. She claimed she had suffered “extreme emotional misery sending me spiraling and am starting to really feel bodily results.”
“The stress of this simply received’t enable my physique to calm down or sleep,” she mentioned, happening to allege that she went to the hospital as a consequence of shortness of breath, muscle stress, and a migraine.
“I’m too grown for folks to nonetheless be on the web threatening me whereas I sit and watch folks go on and on about respecting Black girls,” she added.
