A Texas judge has ordered Iyanna “Yaya” Mayweather, the daughter of boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., to pay more than $50 million in damages to Lapattra Jacobs, the woman she stabbed in 2020 during a confrontation tied to rapper NBA YoungBoy, according to court documents reported Monday by TMZ.
The civil judgment, more than six years after the attack at a Houston-area home, totals $50,105,000. That figure includes $40,105,000 in compensatory damages and $10 million in exemplary damages, which function similarly to punitive damages under Texas law.
The compensatory award breaks down as more than $8 million for past medical expenses, pain and suffering, physical impairment, loss of earning capacity and disfigurement, plus $32 million for future damages in those same categories. The court added the $10 million exemplary award after finding Mayweather’s conduct involved “an extreme degree of risk” and “constituted aggravated assault involving the use of a deadly weapon,” according to the documents cited by TMZ.
Jacobs, who shares a child with YoungBoy, whose legal name is Kentrell Gaulden, alleged in the civil case that the stabbing caused severe and lasting harm, including permanent loss of function in her arm.
Iyanna Mayweather, also known as Yaya, is 26. She was 19 at the time of the April 2020 incident. She and YoungBoy later had a son of their own, born in January 2021.
Police responded in the early hours of April 4, 2020, to a residence in the Cypress area of Harris County after a fight between Mayweather and Jacobs. Authorities said Mayweather arrived at the home where YoungBoy and Jacobs were present, identified herself as the rapper’s fiancée and told Jacobs to leave. A verbal dispute moved into the kitchen, where Mayweather grabbed two knives and stabbed Jacobs, court records and contemporaneous police accounts said.
Jacobs was found on the floor and taken to a hospital with multiple lacerations to her arm. Officials described the injuries as non-life-threatening. She underwent surgery. Mayweather was arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She posted $30,000 bond and was released the same day. YoungBoy was at the house, was briefly detained and was not charged.
Mayweather later told authorities that Jacobs pulled her hair and that she acted in self-defense. Her lawyer, Kent Schaffer, has said the defense believed she was attacked first but accepted a plea because YoungBoy and his bodyguards would not testify.
In April 2022, Mayweather pleaded guilty in Harris County to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. In court papers she admitted to “unlawfully, intentionally and knowingly” causing bodily injury to Jacobs by cutting her with a knife. The second-degree felony carried a possible prison term of two to 20 years.
Instead, prosecutors recommended deferred adjudication. In December 2022, a judge placed Mayweather on six years of probation under deferred adjudication of guilt, a disposition that can keep a felony conviction off her record if she completes the term. Conditions included community service and a ban on harassing or contacting Jacobs, who had obtained a protective order in 2020. Schaffer said she could become eligible to end deferred adjudication after two years with good behavior.
Some earlier entertainment reports said Jacobs stopped cooperating with prosecutors after a separate seven-figure settlement involving Mayweather’s family. Those accounts have not been independently confirmed in official court filings reviewed in public reporting, and they concern the criminal case, not the later civil judgment.
