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Azealia Banks and Matty Healy
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Simply days after their heated change, Azealia Banks despatched a cease-and-desist letter to The 1975’s Matty Healy.
Banks’ letter detailed how Healy’s now-deleted posts have circulated all throughout the web and precipitated her “severe injury.” Because of this, the “Luxurious” rapper is in search of $1 million in damages and a public apology delivered “in a way to be mutually agreed upon.”
In response to the Harlem native’s authorized counsel, Healy “acted deliberately with the precise goal of inflicting [Banks] to be shocked, distressed and emotionally injured.” The doc additionally alleged that the British artist’s “overt racial epithets (e.g., calling her a ‘rat’) and repeated threats of violence” directed at Banks quantity to “cyber harassment and cyberbullying” in violation of federal and state legal guidelines.
The letter despatched to Healy continued, “Your elimination of the damaging assault posts and your acknowledgment that your response was inappropriate doesn’t undo the injury however relatively constitutes proof of an request for forgiveness by you.” On a separate web page, Banks acknowledged she would pursue authorized motion for $1 million in damages, plus authorized charges and injunctive aid.
Tensions between the pair initially escalated on Dec. 3. In response to Banks’ remark that Charli XCX — the fiancée of his bandmate George Daniel — “was so fairly,” the “About You” creator fired again, “All the ladies you assault appear to be culturally related, engaging, divisive and good folks. I believe this makes you jealous since you’re so proficient, however all the things else about you is a failure.”
Banks later claimed that Healy and his fiancée, Gabbriette Bechtel, appear to be “they share needles.” He subsequently threatened, “I’ll f**king slap you so exhausting [that] I’ll get a Guinness world document for the best a rat some b**ch calls a wig has ever flown.”
Between her back-and-forth with Lil Nas X and poking enjoyable on the likes of Ice Spice, Doechii and even Nicki Minaj, Banks’ 2024 has been wrapped in controversy.