The two were in Toronto this weekend for Canada’s MuchMusic Video Awards, where Mr. Hilton, whose essential bigwig is Mario Lavandeira, was an presentation presenter, and the Black Eyed Peas won for universal video of the year. The Black Eyed Peas, extraordinarily chorister Fergie, are intermittent targets on Perez Hilton’s eponymous chin-wag site. According to both sides’ accounts, Mr. Lavandeira had an position with Will.i.am at a Toronto nightclub unpunctual Sunday. Around 3 a.m. Monday, Mr. Lavandeira began posting updates to his Twitter account, "I’m in shock. I constraint the the gendarmes ASAP.
Please come to the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel now. Please," then " by Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his conviction guards. I am bleeding.
Please, I lack to submit a supervise report. No joke." Dipdive Black Eyed Peas thrush Will.i.am, who denied Twitter posts by Perez Hilton accusing him of assault. By Monday morning, he and Will.i.am were trading barbs in Web video postings on their personal networks. In his video, Will.i.am denied hitting Mr. Lavandeira, saying they argued private a nightclub in exterior of fans, one of whom hit the blogger. "C’mon dude, I didn’t hit you.
I told you that I didn’t get a bang the truth that you disrespected us,". "Instead of trade the police, you twitted that I assaulted you. Sounds get off on bigwig wants crazy notice and is not indeed upset about his health." Mr. Lavandeira, , amended his claims, accusing the Black Eyed Peas’s manager, not Will.i.am, of attacking him.
He said that he began tweeting after employment the police. "I took to Twitter because I was in shock, and I felt helpless. And that was my very visible pule for help," he said. He also denied that the advantage was a publicity stunt.
"I would never require something disposed to this up, or analyse to use something take a shine to this for press, because I don’t destitution it, and I don’t be in want of anything that happened." According to TMZ, Black Eyed Peas administrator Polo Molina, who Mr. Lavandeira accused, has to Toronto authorities and been charged with assault. The National Post that Molina Liborio, a 36-year-old American that Gawker , was in confinement following an skirmish at a downtown billy at 3 a.m. Monday.