Dangote Group chairman, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has dragged his ex-lover, Ms Spikes to court for exposing his buttocks.
The richest man in Africa told a U.S. court that his former girlfriend, who exposed a part of his body via a social media post is trying to extort $5 million from him.
However, Dangote is demanding for “excess of $30,000” in damages against Ms Spikes.
However, a court documents filed by Dangote on January 22 is titled; ‘Complaint petition for declaratory judgment complaint for extortion petition for injunctive relief’.
Dangote in the document accused Ms Spikes of libel, defamation, cyberstalking and a breach of agreement ‘to keep their relationship private and off the social media’.
However, the court document stated that Mr Dangote’s “business acumen has made him a target for coercion by the defendant”, adding that Ms Spikes demanded “meritless claims of $5 million” in the nature of “palimony to which she is not legally entitled”.
For better understanding, ‘Palimony’ is an amount of money a law court orders someone to pay regularly to a former partner whom they were living with but were not married to.
Dangote’s court document also states; “Autumn Spikes has made a demand that the plaintiff pays her five million dollars ($5,000,000.00) as shown in Exhibit 1.”
For those who don’t know, the affair between Aliko Dangote and Ms Spikes first came to public knowledge on January 1, when the lady using the Instagram handle, Allarounda1, posted a video clip showing herself seated and Dangote stretched on a couch.
The images, which went viral on social media, appeared to have been captured during their good times together. The image showed most of Dangote’s body covered in a blanket but with his buttocks exposed while he was busy with his phone.
Ms Spikes also shared other images of Dangote but later deleted them. However, she later claimed she did not make her affairs public on social media to acquire fame.
She also claimed her action was aimed at helping Dangote clear his name of the embarrassment caused by another ex-mistress of the businessman, Bea Lewis, who exposed their intimate affairs on social media”.
Meanwhile, Dangote in addition to end the relationship, he asked Ms Spikes for a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) about their affair and Ms Spikes demanded $5 million, through her representatives, in exchange for the NDA.
The demand was followed by an email by Dangote’s lawyer, Mr Fleisher, to Ms Spikes’ lawyer, Paul Petruzzi, on January 13, asking for “the basis of Ms Spikes’ demand”.
Responding to Mr Fleisher’s email, Mr Petruzzi described the affair between his client and the billionaire as “an ongoing initimate relationship for nearly the entire past decade since she was pretty young”.
Mr Petruzzi added in the email that “the relationship was quite involved and pretty interesting” and insisted that Dangote must pay his client the sum of $5 million in exchange for the NDA.
He stated; “For whatever reason, your client broke off the relationship as soon as one of his other ‘conquests’ broke her silence. Your client now wants my client to sign an NDA and, through his representatives, offered her money to do so.”
“While I appreciate your client’s desire to continue to exercise his control over mine, she will only agree to the NDA proposed by your client in exchange for the lump sum of 5 million dollars.”
However, Dangote filed the email exchange as Exhibit 1 in his suit. In the suit Dangote said Ms Spikes had in the past requested financial assistance from him to start up a business.
His court document read in part; “Autumn Spikes demanded from the plaintiff assistance as an entrepreneur in a start-up business when there was no loan commitment, nor oral or written promise.”
“The plaintiff once announced an oral willingness to provide entrepreneurial assistance to Autumn Spikes on the condition that it be confidential and private.”
“John Doe’s generosity toward Autumn Spikes, if any, has been breached by Autumn Spikes’ exposure and solicitations to talk show media if he fails to pay her meritless demands.”
“Autumn Spikes continues illegal demands for a plaintiff to pay her what he does not owe her, under threat he will be a victim of nasty and/or untrue publicity in order to induce payment of support, in the form of alimony, and as if she was married to the plaintiff.”
“Defendant has threatened communications on social media, Facebook, Instagram, and otherwise. John Doe has a right to terminate his generosity and to obtain from Autumn Spikes a refund of the monies he had given her to assist her in starting up a business.”
– Source: PREMIUM TIMES
