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8:17 pm - 09/05/2012

Patti LaBelle Pays $100,000 for Yelling at Toddler, Mom


That was a costly temper tantrum.

Disco diva Patti LaBelle belted out a profane tirade against a pregnant mom and her little girl in the lobby of a Manhattan apartment building — and now, she has agreed to pay for it to the tune of $100,000, the plaintiff’s lawyer told The Post yesterday.

The Grammy-winning singer allegedly shouted the F-word, called mom Roseanna Monk a “c--t,” and drenched her with bottled water after complaining that Monk’s then-18-month-old daughter was playing near the lobby door of an Upper West Side apartment building where LaBelle was staying in 2010.


When Roseanna — by then cradling her tot, Genevieve, in her arms — accused the “Lady Marmalade” singer of making the girl hysterical, an enraged LaBelle then allegedly had to be held back by her entourage and hustled into a waiting car.

Roseanna and hubby Kevin Monks’ lawyer, Sam Davis, said LaBelle opted to settle the case before even being deposed.

He noted the difficulty that LaBelle would have faced at trial, when he would have brought the adorable little girl into court and said, “That mean woman over there, with the 300-pound bodyguard, was yelling at her.”

“The jury would be shaking their heads,” he said.

Roseanna, a former kindergarten teacher, said all proceeds will be donated to the Hope & Heroes Children’s Cancer Fund.

“This is an opportunity for Patti LaBelle to help a lot of children, and I feel good about that,” she said.

The Nov. 10, 2010, incident took place while LaBelle was renting a Trump Place apartment for her three-month, $50,000-a-week appearance in the Broadway musical “Fela!”

Court papers said the child, now 3 1/2, has suffered “personality changes, sleep disorder” and “increased fear of strangers.”

After the suit wound up in Manhattan federal court last year, LaBelle denied that she was “liable in any way for any alleged claims of injury” and said the Monks were “more than 50 percent at fault.”

Her publicist declined to comment yesterday.

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agoraphobicorgy 6th-Sep-2012 01:19 am (UTC)
dang
fauxparadiso 6th-Sep-2012 01:20 am (UTC)
Damn girl, you should be better than this. At least she didn't pull a Naomi and fling the bottle.
damndavestfu 6th-Sep-2012 01:21 am (UTC)
love u miss patti ur cooking show thing is the best on youtube
ides_of_smarch 6th-Sep-2012 01:21 am (UTC)
title or description
loganx2 6th-Sep-2012 01:22 am (UTC)
perfect
mortoeroe 6th-Sep-2012 03:05 pm (UTC)
omg i was JUST discussing this episode of the simpsons last night.
mistyraven 6th-Sep-2012 01:21 am (UTC)
Wow, shitty thing to do. Also, I really like the name Genevieve
loganx2 6th-Sep-2012 01:21 am (UTC)
damn girl.
slapband 6th-Sep-2012 01:22 am (UTC)
i mean of course shouting 'cunt!' around a child isn't cool, but saying that "the child, now 3 1/2, has suffered “personality changes, sleep disorder” and “increased fear of strangers”" is such a lie, cmon
xeroxicide__ 6th-Sep-2012 01:24 am (UTC)
Mte. In the past parents would just say oh, she's had a bad experience with strangers or at the very most someone may say a rude lady left my child traumatized . Now everything is clinical and labeled...it's just over the top.
slapband 6th-Sep-2012 01:27 am (UTC)
not even that! if a random woman on the street did the same, it would just be "this stupid bitch, smh" and that would be it over with. a 3 1/2 year old is switched on if they remember what they had for breakfast.
cruel_idol 6th-Sep-2012 01:25 am (UTC)
They needed to lie to get that extra $50,000.
steph313 6th-Sep-2012 01:29 am (UTC)
Idk, knowing how I was as a kid--painfully shy, especially around strangers--if some lady screamed at me like they say here, it would have done something to me for sure. But I still have memories of adults just being stern with me and yet scaring me shitless--and now I'm nearly 30.
astormatsea 6th-Sep-2012 01:31 am (UTC)
welcome 2 litigation
goldenlockets 6th-Sep-2012 01:36 am (UTC)
mte
kapuki234 6th-Sep-2012 01:38 am (UTC)
lol ikr

desperate
sandstorm 6th-Sep-2012 01:42 am (UTC)
Let's Get Litigious.
Though increased fear of strangers probably isn't out of the ordinary.

Edited at 2012-09-06 01:48 am (UTC)
hannahgrace456 6th-Sep-2012 02:18 am (UTC)
IDK, I spend a lot of time with children and infants that have been through trauma at very young ages (some 2 and under) and you can definitely see how it's affected their personality.

Regardless, it's obviously not about the money because the woman didn't even keep it, she gave it to charity.
queerinmesoftly 6th-Sep-2012 01:22 am (UTC)
a 3 year old going through personality changes? that's apart of growing up, boo.
erraticxemotion 6th-Sep-2012 01:38 am (UTC)
mte
itsafunny_thing 6th-Sep-2012 01:51 am (UTC)
*a part...apart means separate, lol
spider_orchid 6th-Sep-2012 01:22 am (UTC)
Damn Patti. I can't stan for you if you're acting the damn ass!
mikeblitzz 6th-Sep-2012 01:22 am (UTC)
damn, patti be letting 'em have it!
lachica2000 6th-Sep-2012 01:23 am (UTC)
That is insane.
ritzyroxie 6th-Sep-2012 01:23 am (UTC)
Juaooooooooooooooo
thrillisgone_89 6th-Sep-2012 01:24 am (UTC)
pokebadgersofte 6th-Sep-2012 01:30 am (UTC)
this flawless, understated gif.
bluebandit77 6th-Sep-2012 01:37 am (UTC)
no..i'm disappointed.
myxwill 6th-Sep-2012 01:24 am (UTC)
LOL maybe I should get a celebrity to yell at me at get 6 figures, but still bitchy move Patti.
batty_gal 6th-Sep-2012 01:49 am (UTC)
I'd let Christian Bale yell at me just for the entertainment factor alone.

Edited at 2012-09-06 01:50 am (UTC)
xxjaeraexx 6th-Sep-2012 02:40 am (UTC)
And for another remix!
candycheeks 6th-Sep-2012 01:24 am (UTC)
:O
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