In recent months, a lot of the celebrities that endorsed the failed cryptocurrency FTX have been under investigation and were listed in a lawsuit claiming FTX and the celebs engaged in deceptive practices to sell FTX yield-bearing digital currency accounts.
Steph Curry, Tom Brady, and Larry David are among the celebs named in the lawsuit but one celeb that is named is reportedly avoiding being served.
That’s Shaquille O’Neal.
According to the NY Post, lawyers for Edwin Garrison, the man responsible for the lawsuit, has claimed that Shaq is the only celeb named in the lawsuit that has avoided the lawyers even though the allegations abasing him are the most damning.
“It is really astonishing the measures he has gone [to] to avoid service of our complaint,” says attorney Adam Moskowitz “The irony is that the admitted facts against him are probably the worst against any of the FTX brand ambassadors.”
In an email sent out to the defendants on Tuesday, Garrison’s attorneys called out O’Neal, writing: “We have spent great efforts (4 different service companies) trying to get you all served with our Complaint.
“Only one, however, has chosen to evade service, in order to draw out these proceedings, or to otherwise attempt to avoid answering for these allegations,”
Shaq has maintained that he wasn’t really involved and that he was just a paid spokesperson the whole time. It’s going to be very interesting to see how this plays out.
They could always just stand outside of the TNT offices where Shaq works every day, but I digress.
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