After their transient spat on Twitter final week, Azealia Banks has despatched The 1975’s Matty Healy a stop and desist letter demanding $1 million in damages.
Their beef started when Banks, often energetic on Twitter and sometimes in hater mode, wrote that Healy’s good friend and collaborator Charli XCX “was once soooo fairly.” Healy then responded by writing “All the ladies you assault appear to be culturally related, engaging, divisive and NICE individuals. I believe this makes you jealous cos you’re so gifted however every little thing else about you is a failure. Simply rap bro.”
Banks responded by claiming Healy and his fiancée Gabriette “each appear like you share needles,” and in contrast him to Frankenstein. She additionally wrote that Healy was “too busy kissing males onstage for clout” to do something a few man hypothetically disrespecting Gabriette.
Healy then doubled down, writing, “I do know you suppose your life is a few episode of the library is open however I’m not the one. Speak to me like that I’m not gonna aspect eye you at an awards do I’ll fucking slap you so onerous I’ll get a Guinness world file for the best a rat some bitch calls a wig has ever flown.” (Within the midst of all this, Healy additionally tried to defend Gabriette and her consuming uncooked milk, which apparently is one thing she does, threatening to dox his followers in the event that they “say ONE factor about my Gabi.”)
Banks demanded that Healy “pay” her because of his risk or face a lawsuit, and Healy finally recanted his statements, deactivating his account after admitting “Nah I can’t be saying I’m gonna hit a lady that’s insane I’m sorry. You simply can’t maintain being so imply about my mates and my mrs it’s actually hurtful will get me effectively defensive” and writing “She’d fuckin batter me tbf.”
Now, per Banks’ earlier promise on Twitter, she’s formally taking authorized motion in opposition to Healy’s feedback. She shared the stop and desist letter to her Twitter web page, written by her lawyer, Wallace J. Collins III. “Your assaults in opposition to my shopper’s skilled repute, your overt racial epithets and your most up-to-date threats of bodily violence in opposition to my shopper have been well-documented because you printed them worldwide on-line,” the letter reads. “Your elimination of the damaging assault posts and your acknowledgement that your response was inappropriate doesn’t undo the harm, however reasonably constitutes proof of an act of contrition by you.”
The letter alleges that Healy’s threats are in violation of “Numerous federal and state legal guidelines,” and claims that Healy’s standing as a public determine with “vital affect” means he has a “responsibility to keep away from reckless statements,” saying that his phrases might incite his followers to commit an act of violence in opposition to Banks.
Although Collins writes that he has “normally discovered it helpful for all events to attempt to resolve such issues amicably with out the necessity for courtroom intervention,” the be aware concludes with the demand that Healy instantly stop and desist from making any additional or defamatory statements in opposition to Banks, should apologize publicly to Banks, and compensate her with the quantity of $1 million. Learn the letter in full under.
It’s undoubtedly not the primary stop and desist letter served because of a Twitter beef, and it’s additionally not the primary time Matty Healy has been sued for doing (or saying) a bit an excessive amount of. Earlier this yr, The 1975 have been notably sued for $2.4 million by a Malaysian competition after Healy kissed bassist Ross MacDonald through the band’s set to protest the nation’s anti-LGBTQ legal guidelines.
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— Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) December 8, 2024
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