Security officer wins lawsuit against NBA star Paul Pierce for defamation
Las Vegas NV December 10 2019 As security guard who filed a lawsuit against NBA star Paul Pierce for defamation has won his case.
The security guard and Pierce was involved in altercation last year at the T-Mobile Arena which hosted UFC 229 featuring Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
During the altercation, Pierce called the security officer a racist during the altercation.
Now the former 19-year NBA veteran is ordered to pay the complainant an amount costing $100,000 as the ruling sided in favor of Christopher Mostello, the security guard.
In a captured video Pierce was seen in the middle of a tense-filled scene with Mostello while the event guard was leading the former NBA Champion to his view of the bout. The 42-year-old Pierce, to his defense, claimed that Mostello “gave him a hard time while trying to get to his seat.”
The security guard, meanwhile, insisted that Pierce was “acting inappropriately that night”, citing an instance where the 10-time NBA All-Star got physical and aggressive with a female security advisor. Montello also said that he was just doing his job.
Pierce had seemed to be unfazed by the lawsuit to begin with as the court never heard from him during the proceedings that prompted the judge to order him to compensate Montello.
