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A$AP Rocky Tells Judge He’s Too
Busy To Be Grilled By Alleged
Shooting Victim This Month
A$AP Rocky has report- edly claimed he’s too busy to attend a deposition date in his A$AP Relli shooting lawsuit.
According to Radar Online, Rocky’s legal team have asked the judge for more time before he’s questioned due to his busy music career and business ventures.
A$AP Rocky, who stands accused of shooting A$AP Relli in November 2021, re- portedly agreed to sit down for a deposition on November 16. However, Relli demanded he appear on October 19 and ap- parently even threatened to ask for sanctions if he didn’t show.
Rocky believes Relli — a producer and talent manager who was previously affiliated with the A$AP Mob — and his legal team are being diffi- cult to work with and are re- fusing to schedule an alternative deposition date.
Defending his busy sched-
A$AP ROCKY
ule, A$AP Rocky’s lawyer said in a court filing his client is an “award-winning interna- tional recording artist, record- ing executive and music producer,” who in addition to “recording, touring and per- forming worldwide, oversees several other business ven- tures including collaborations with national and interna- tional brands.”
Tyler Perry Has Fired His
Accountants After Finding Out
The IRS Owed Him $9M In Return
Filmmaker Tyler Perry shared a past experience where he had to face the Inter- nal Revenue Service (IRS), ex- cept he revealed to be on the receiving end after an audit re- vealed the IRS owed him $9 million in return.
The philanthropist shared the information with atten- dees at the 2022 Earn Your Leisure Conference where he talked about his successful ca- reer journey along with some of the challenges and learning experiences he faced along the way.
“Money isn’t something that I had and nobody taught me that taxes had to be paid,” he shared. “I didn’t go to col- lege, but I paid for Harvard many times over in the mis- takes that I made.”
The situation with the ‘Madea’ actor where he was allegedly being audited by someone from the IRS was one of the stories he told to the sold-out audience. The outlet revealed that this particular agent from the IRS was sup- posedly obsessed with what
TYLER PERRY
Perry was doing with his money.
“So this audit went on for three years,” Perry said. “I’m spending hundreds of thou- sands of dollars in accounting with accountants for the audit and I am getting so mad, and so frustrated.”
“We get to the end of the audit and they, the IRS, owed me $9 million,” he shared.
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