Overview
- A Los Angeles jury returned the verdict on Tuesday, June 30, finding Chris Brown and his company Black Pyramid LLC negligent and awarding Maria Avila about $12.9 million for injuries from the 2020 mauling.
- Avila’s sister Patricia was awarded $885,000 for emotional distress and Avila’s husband Oscar Olivo received $50,000, bringing the family’s total damages to roughly $13 million.
- At trial Avila described severe facial and arm injuries that required skin grafts, left lasting nerve damage and PTSD, and forced her to stop working as a housekeeper.
- Brown testified that the dog was kept for security, admitted some negligence, said he warned staff to wait for security, and acknowledged he did not personally call 911 after the attack.
- The case followed a mid-June mistrial after juror internet research, included a pretrial ban on questions about Brown’s 2009 conviction, and comes as he faces a separate criminal trial in the U.K. this fall.