Nick Kyrgios settles legal case with Wimbledon fan he accused of being ‘drunk out of her mind,’ her lawyers say
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court, a fan alleged that former tennis star Nick Kyrgios threw her into a wall at Wimbledon and she suffered severe brain injuries in the incident. The fan, identified in court only as “Jane Doe,” is seeking more than $22 million. The lawsuit accuses Kyrgios of “causing severe physical and emotional injuries to Jane Doe’s body and mind, and thereby causing her severe injury.” The details of the case are still being sorted out, but her lawyers said that she had brain injuries that caused her to experience severe headaches and memory loss about the events at Wimbledon. The details are expected to be more detailed in the coming days and weeks. In an interview with ESPN, Jane Doe’s lawyer, Michael D’Onofrio, said that he has heard a lot of conflicting versions of what happened.
“We are going to be dealing with things that are incredibly difficult to hear,” D’Onofrio said. “We are going to be dealing with what happened, what happened to Jane Doe, but, more importantly, what we are dealing with is the truth.”
One thing I’ve learned from my colleagues is that the first instinct people have in court is to fight back. The best way to win a case is not to fight back. That’s only natural. A lawyer or attorney should never, ever fight back.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court, a fan alleged that former tennis star Nick Kyrgios threw her into a wall at Wimbledon and she suffered severe brain injuries in the incident. The fan, identified in court only as “Jane Doe,” is seeking more than $22 million. The lawsuit accuses Kyrgios of “causing severe physical and emotional injuries to Jane Doe’s body and mind, and thereby causing her severe injury.” The details of the case are still being sorted out, but her lawyers said that she had brain injuries that caused her to experience severe headaches and memory loss about the events at Wimbledon. The details are expected to be more detailed