A new class-action lawsuit seeks damages from Stake.com, as well as two of Stake’s paid representatives, rapper Drake and streamer Adin Ross, for losses tied to illegal gambling in the state of Missouri.
The lawsuit was announced by Attorney Daniel Wallach in a social media post, writing, “The class action seeks to hold Drake and Ross liable for class members’ gambling losses.” The plaintiff, Justin Killham, lives in Independence, Missouri, where most kinds of online gambling are currently illegal — though sports betting is set to be legalized statewide on December 1st, 2025.
Killham’s suit alleges that Stake.com used Stake.us to get around existing laws, and then “flooded social media platforms in Missouri and elsewhere with slick ads, ‘influencer’ videos, and flashy visuals, making its games seem safe, fun, and harmless. By masking its real-money gambling platform as just another ‘social casino,’ Stake creates exactly the kind of dangerous environment that Missouri gaming laws exist to stop.”
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The plaintiff argues that videos starring Drake and Adin Ross steered him to Stake. The suit also claims that when Drake and Ross gambled on Stake.com in online videos, they implied they were using their own funds but actually bet money provided by Stake (and good thing, too — over the summer Drake lost $8 million). The lawsuit calls the videos “deceptive, fraudulent, and unfair.” The plaintiff and his attorneys are hoping that other Missouri residents who lost money on Stake.com will join the lawsuit.
We can’t speculate on the legal merits of this case. But recently the courts haven’t been kind to Drake, and earlier this month, a judge threw out the rapper’s lawsuit against his label UMG over their promotion of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
BREAKING: Canadian rapper Drake and online influencer Adin Ross have been sued along with sweepstakes casino website https://t.co/ZWPLa9WGvN for promoting illegal online gambling in Missouri. The class action seeks to hold Drake and Ross liable for class members’ gambling losses. pic.twitter.com/YILRTAWloM
— Daniel Wallach (@WALLACHLEGAL) October 27, 2025