WBC and WBA Welterweight boxing champ Floyd Mayweather will defend his titles against Marcos Maidana this coming Saturday but first, how bout some details from the lawsuit filed against him by his former fiancee Shantel Jackson, who is accusing Floyd of physical abuse, emotional abuse, theft and kidnapping….
From The Daily Mail
Stunning Shantel met the boxer in 2006 when she was aged 21 and working as a hostess at an event in Atlanta, Georgia.
The pair began dating and soon after Mayweather asked her to move in with him in Las Vegas.
The boxer, who was last year named the highest paid athlete of the year by Forbes, showered her with gifts including a 17 carat diamond worth $2,500,000, over 100 designer handbags and masses of designer clothing.
He also lavished her with ‘substantial cash gifts’ and allowed her to use his credit card.
However, Mayweather soon became very controlling and Shantel had to ‘make herself available to him virtually at all times’ and was not allowed to work, according to the lawsuit filed on Thursday at the Superior Court of California.
Shantel, who changed her last name to ‘Jackson-Mayweather’ at the boxing champ's request, stood by her man when he was jailed in 2012 for a domestic violence attack in which he twisted ex-girlfriend Josie Harris's arm in front of two of their young children.
But just days after his release from prison, Mayweather allegedly lashed out at her in almost the same way as he had attacked his ex.
The court papers state that during a jealous rage, the undefeated boxer twisted Shantel's arm, then ‘choked her and forcibly took her phone away from her to look through it.’
Just a week later Mayweather – nicknamed ‘Pretty Boy’ - begged for forgiveness and promised ‘he would never assault her again’ the documents continue.
Some time later, while Shantel was working in Los Angeles in August, she claims Mayweather asked her for the security code for the home she owned in Las Vegas - which she had kept when she moved in with the boxer and used to store lots of her belongings.
When she returned she says ‘all of her expensive clothing accessories and personal items’ had been taken.
As alleged in her court papers, Mayweather – also known as ‘Money’ - then admitted he had taken her things as a 'test to see how important these possessions were to her'.
He eventually returned the property in October and promised to change his behavior but problems in the relationship continued and Shantel decided to leave Mayweather in early 2013 and move to Los Angeles.
In the first week of April she took the belongings from her Vegas house and put them in three storage lockers in Glendale, Calif.
This enraged Mayweather who bragged to her that he had found out which moving company she had used and the address of the storage lockers.
He later confessed he had arranged for one of the lockers to be broken into - and took belongings worth more than $1million from it, the papers allege.
Mayweather went to ‘great lengths’ to try woo Shantel back - and she moved back to Las Vegas on April 19 in a private jet Mayweather had sent for her.
But within days the couple began arguing and when Shantel threatened to leave again, angry Mayweather launched a "terrifying and humiliating" attack on her at gunpoint - refusing to let her leave his house, the papers claim.
The boxer grabbed his fiancee, ‘bent her arm, restrained her and pointed a gun at her foot, asking: “Which toe do you want me to shoot?”’
