A new Adrien Broner lawsuit filed in Los Angeles accuses the former boxing champion of sexual battery and assault, and it does not stop at him. The complaint, brought by a woman identified as Havana Saint, also names fellow streamer Nurideen Shabazz, known online as Deen the Great, and the streaming platform Kick. Saint is suing Broner for sexual battery and assault, suing both men for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and suing Kick for negligence. Broner had not publicly responded to the allegations as of publication, and TMZ, which first reported the filing, said it had reached out to him.
The allegations center on a stretch of days in early June. Saint says Broner invited her and several friends to an after party on June 2, encouraged her to drink heavily, and offered her a place to stay once she was too intoxicated to drive. She alleges he repeatedly pressured her for sex after she said no multiple times and told him she was not interested in men. According to the complaint, he exposed himself and grabbed her hand in an attempt to force contact. She says a second encounter followed the next day, when Broner allegedly became angry that nothing had happened between them and tried to pull her upstairs.
Saint says she ran into him again on June 8 at a separate livestream content house in Los Angeles County. She alleges he physically pulled or dragged her out of the house and pressured her to come back to his home in Encino, where she says he pushed for sex again and she declined again. She and her friends stayed the night. The next morning, she says, Broner doused her with ice water while a livestream was running in front of roughly 20,000 viewers, and the clip was cut up and reposted repeatedly. The complaint characterizes the conduct of both men as extreme and outrageous behavior exceeding all bounds tolerated in a civilized society.
Saint says she and Broner never had sex. The defamation piece of the Adrien Broner lawsuit rests on what she says he told his audience afterward. She alleges he made statements on stream insinuating sexual contact between them, then shifted his story when viewers pushed back. Deen the Great is accused of telling his own livestream audience that Saint had engaged in sexual contact with multiple individuals, which she says is false. Both men are facing defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims over what was said on those broadcasts.
The Kick claim is the part worth paying attention to, and it is the part most outlets are burying at the bottom of their coverage. Saint is suing the platform for negligence, which puts the question squarely on the company: what responsibility does a streaming service carry for what happens on a broadcast it hosts and monetizes? Livestream culture has spent the last several years running on content houses, marathon streams and personalities who understand that the more chaotic the moment, the better it travels in clips. A negligence claim against the platform tests whether that machine has any legal exposure attached to it, or whether the liability stops with the individual holding the camera. However this particular case resolves, that is a question the entire streaming economy has been avoiding.
None of this has been proven. These are allegations in a civil complaint, and a civil case operates on a preponderance of the evidence standard rather than the beyond a reasonable doubt standard that governs criminal prosecution. Broner has not filed a response, and no court has weighed the claims.
The filing does land on a man with a documented legal history. In 2019, an Ohio judge awarded roughly $830,000 to a woman who said Broner sexually assaulted her at a Cleveland nightclub in 2018. That award came as a default judgment after Broner stopped defending himself in the case. In the related criminal matter, he pleaded guilty to assault and unlawful restraint and was sentenced to probation. A separate sexual battery charge out of Georgia the same year, tied to an allegation that he groped a woman at a mall, was eventually dropped by prosecutors.
Broner built one of the loudest careers in boxing, winning titles in four weight divisions and turning himself into a genuine pay per view attraction during the 2010s under the nickname The Problem. The years since have been defined less by fights than by everything around them, a run of arrests, lawsuits, financial disputes and viral moments that kept interrupting whatever comeback he was attempting at the time. The livestream era gave him a second act as a personality, a place where the same unfiltered energy that made him a draw in the ring could run twelve hours at a stretch without a promoter or a network standing between him and an audience.
That is the setting this case comes out of. The alleged conduct happened at content houses and on live broadcasts, the alleged defamation happened on stream in front of tens of thousands of people, and the receipts are clips that have already circulated far past whoever originally posted them. Saint is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. No hearing date has been reported.
