Chris Brown just got hit with a multimillion-dollar bill over a brutal dog attack at his Los Angeles home. A California jury on Tuesday ordered the singer and his company, Black Pyramid LLC, to pay roughly $13 million to a housekeeper and her family after a 2020 mauling by his 200-pound Caucasian Shepherd, Hades, reports Rolling Stone. Maria Avila was awarded $12.9 million for negligence, with her sister receiving $885,000 for emotional distress and Avila's husband $50,000 for loss of consortium.
Billboard first reported the news of the ruling. Avila claimed she suffered severe injuries, lasting nerve damage, and disfigurement after the dog attacked her while she was taking out the trash and can no longer work as a housekeeper due to those injuries, as well as her fear of dogs, per Rolling Stone. Brown, who'd already admitted negligence under California's dog-bite law but disputed the extent of the damages, told jurors he left the scene before paramedics arrived because he feared media fallout as a celebrity.
Brown has also acknowledged that the dog was for security purposes and wasn't a personal pet, and he claimed he'd warned both Avila and her sister about the dogs on his property and that they shouldn't go outside without security staff accompanying them, per Variety. The sisters deny that conversation ever took place, citing the fact that they don't speak much English and doubt they would've had a talk like that with Brown.
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