Singer says he was not responsible for 2007 incident

Jul 6, 2010 10:29 GMT  ·  By
Enrique Iglesias goes to court to avoid responsibility for 2007 incident involving 11-year-old fan
   Enrique Iglesias goes to court to avoid responsibility for 2007 incident involving 11-year-old fan

Because of the frenzy that the mere presence of a star can generate, accidents are known to happen. Luckily, they rarely end in tragedy. Unfortunately for the stars involved, most of the time, they do end in a lawsuit filed against them by the victim. The same goes for Enrique Iglesias, who is now forced to defend himself in a court of law, as TMZ reports.

And the way the singer chooses to do so is by blaming someone else and not taking any part of the responsibility for an incident dating back to 2007. A teenage fan had her foot crushed by the singer’s car because she was pushed by a throng of people and could not move out of harm’s way in due time. Apparently, the girl’s parents are looking for compensation for the injury, but Enrique is not having it, having just filed papers that say that, if anyone is to blame, that person is the girl’s mother.

“Enrique Iglesias is totally Americanized – so much so he embraces the concept, blame the victim... or at least the victim’s parent. Enrique has filed legal docs, disclaiming any responsibility for an incident back in 2007, in which an 11-year-old girl had her foot crushed by the singer’s car,” TMZ says of the latest development in the lawsuit. As per court documents, the mother should have known better than to let her daughter unsupervised, thus at a risk.

“Enrique claims the fault lies with the girl’s mom, for not adequately supervising her and protecting her from harm. The accident occurred when fans swarmed Enrique’s car after a radio appearance. The girl has already sued Enrique for damages. The point of Enrique’s new legal move... if a jury finds he’s responsible, he wants them to order the girl’s mom to pay the judgment,” the same media outlet further says.

Enrique has a new album to promote now, the bilingual “Euphoria,” his first project of the kind. Filing papers that say the injured girl’s mother is to blame he ran over her foot is already getting a lot of people talking in the blogosphere, most of them condemning his latest action. The only good thing about this is that, as they say, bad publicity is many times better than no publicity at all.