Nick Gordon is firing back against accusations that he caused the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown.
As Popdust previously reported, in June, Bobbi Kristina's conservator filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against her former boyfriend.
On Tuesday, Gordon’s attorney, Jose Baez, filed a response to the lawsuit, obtained by People magazine—denying that the 25-year-old caused Brown's death and asking for the lawsuit to be dismissed, as the claims are "slanderous and without merit."
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The lawsuit accuses Gordon of giving Brown a "toxic cocktail" on January 31 after fighting with her following a night out, and then placing her face down in a full bathtub, which ultimately led to her premature death at age 22—he’s also accused of assaulting Bobbi Kristina and of stealing from her.
Gordon has confessed to arguing with Bobbi Kristina on that fateful night, and admits to changing his clothes afterwards, but denies drugging her and placing her in the bath—in fact, he insists, that when he found her in the tub, he tried desperately to revive her and even performed CPR.
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In his response, Baez denied pretty much all of the allegations against his client, insisting there’s no proof of the "several false criminal and frivolous claims" —including the accusation that Gordon “perpetrated the fraud that he had married Bobbi Kristina” in order to "control" her and her money.
He also shot down the claims of physical abuse, including allegations that Gordon kicked and punched Brown and even knocked out one of her teeth.
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After languishing for several months in a medically-induced coma, Brown passed away on July 26, 2015. She was buried beside her mother, Whitney Houston, in New Jersey.
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Bob Marley—Marley died from metastatic melanoma on 11 May 1981 at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami—he was 36-years old
James Dean—Dean died in a car crash near Cholame, California, on September 30, 1955—He was 24-years old
Heath Ledger—Ledger died on 22 January 2008 from an accidental intoxication from prescription drugs—he was 28-years old
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes—Lopes was killed in a car accident in La Ceiba, Honduras, On April 25, 2002—she was 30-years old
Amy Winehouse—Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning on 23 July 2011 at her home in Camden, London—she was 27-years old
Bruce Lee—Lee died on July 20, 1973 in Kowloon Tong, China. The coroner ruled "death by misadventure" caused by an acute cerebral edema due to a reaction to compounds present in the combination medication Equagesic—he was 32-years old
Aaliyah Dana Haughton—Aaliyah was killed in a place crash in the Bahamas on August 25, 2001‚ she was 22-years old
Buddy Holly—Holly, along with fellow musicians, Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) was killed in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959—he was 22
Jimi Hendrix—Hendrix died on September 18,1970 in Kensington, London. A coroner ruled that he aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates—he was 27
Brittany Murphy—Murphy died on December 20, 2009—the coroner ruled the primary cause of death was pneumonia, with secondary factors of iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication—she was 32
River Phoenix—Phoenix died of drug-induced heart failure on the sidewalk outside The Viper Room in Hollywood on October 31, 1993—he was 23-years old
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Andy Whitfield—Whitfield died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Sydney, Australia, on 11 September 2011—he was 39-years old
Elvis Presley—Presley died on August 16, 1977, at his home in Memphis Tennessee. Cause of death was officially ruled as cardiac arrhythmia, but many believe that was a cover-up and his true cause of death was from combined drug intoxication—he was 42-years old
John Belushi—Belushi of an accidental drugs overdose, after injecting a mixture of heroin and cocaine, at The Chateau Marmont, in Hollywood, California, on March 5, 1982—he was 33-years old
Tupac Shakur—2pac was was murdered in a drive by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 7, 1996—he was 25-years old
Paul Walker—Walker died in single vehicle car crash in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, on November 30, 2013—he was 40-years old
Princess Diana— Spencer was killed in a car crash in Paris France on 31 August 1997—she was 36-years old
Jonathan Brandis—Brandis died from suicide by hanging in Los Angeles, California on November 12, 2003—he was 27-years old
Whitney Houston—Houston died after accidentally drowning in the bathtub in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton hotel, in Beverly Hills, California. The coroner ruled death by drowning, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors—she was 48-years old
Christopher George Latore Wallace—the Notorious B.I.G. was killed in a drive by shooting in Los Angeles, California, om March 9, 1997—he was 24-years old
Ryan Dunn—Dunn died in a alcohol related car crash on June 20, 2011, in Chester County, Pennsylvania—he was 34-years old
Chris Farley—Farley died from an accidental cocaine and morphine overdose in Chicago, Illinois, on December 18, 1997—he was 33-years old
Kurt Cobain—Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, Washington on April 8, 1994. His death was officially ruled suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head, but has been the subject of much speculation ever since—he was 27-years old
Michael Jackson—Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication leading to cardiac arrest, on June 25, 2009, at his home in Los Angeles, California. His death was ruled a homicide and his longtime physician, Dr. Conrad Murray was subsequently convicted of involuntary manslaughter—Jackson was 50-years old
Bobbi Kristina Brown—Brown died on July 26, 2015, following six months in a medically induced coma after she was discovered unresponsive, face down in a bath tub in her Atlanta, Georgia home. On July 27, news broke that Brown’s death is being treated as a homicide investigation—she was 22-years old
