A stylist story out of Miami is picking up steam online, and it’s starting to look like more than an isolated incident. The saga resurfaced this week when Coach Stormy’s assistant, Rick Rosa, posted a clip to social media, reviving an incident involving Miami stylist Shaquille Palmer, who goes by “Shaq.”
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In the video, which had already circulated weeks earlier, Palmer tells his camera that he’d picked up a client’s Birkin bag, reportedly belonging to rapper Yung Miami, to drop off at a bag cleaner, only for the bag to go missing after he allegedly left it in his car.“We’re talking about a $38,000 bag,” Palmer says in the clip. “There’s nothing else to do but replace the bag.” He goes on to say he “came out of pocket” to buy a replacement Birkin for $38,000 and is shown telling his client, referred to as “Caresha,” that the bag and other items were stolen from his car.
Rosa’s decision to repost that video now appears tied to a separate, newer situation involving his own boss. According to Rosa, Coach Stormy Wellington, who he says is a current client of Palmer’s, recently discovered bags she says belong to her listed for resale on a website. Audio that’s since circulated online captures what’s presented as a call between Wellington and the reseller. On the call, the reseller repeatedly says she purchased the bags legitimately from someone she refers to as “Shaq,” insisting she has paperwork and payment records for the transaction and telling Wellington to “go after him” if there’s a dispute. Wellington, for her part, can be heard telling the reseller the bags were stolen from her and that she plans to involve the police.
Stormy’s team has since gone further, providing additional detail about the working relationship between Wellington and Palmer. According to statements sent by Stormy’s team, Palmer has been Wellington’s stylist for seven years and, in that time, was paid close to a million dollars through their arrangement. Her team describes the relationship as going beyond a professional one: “To her, he was really more than a stylist but a friend,” noting that Wellington gave Palmer access to her credit cards and checks so he could shop on her behalf for looks. Per her team’s account, what was supposed to be a single bag drop-off for cleaning turned into six bags leaving with Palmer, and it was only afterward that Wellington says she realized her other bags were missing entirely. Her team claims that for 18 days, Palmer kept telling Wellington the bags were still being cleaned, with what they describe as “a new story” each time and no bag ever returned.
Her team also draws a direct line to the earlier Yung Miami incident, saying Palmer “Ended up doing the same thing” to her, taking a bag in for cleaning and later claiming it was stolen from his car. Wellington’s team floats a theory of their own in the statement, saying they believe Palmer may be pawning clients’ bags and returning knockoffs in their place, adding that because of the trust placed in him, “We don’t think nothing wrong” when the bags are handed over. That theory, it should be noted, is presented by Stormy’s team as suspicion, not as something they say they’ve proven.
It’s important to stress what this story is, and isn’t, at this stage. Neither the reseller’s identity nor an on-the-record confirmation that the “Shaq” she references is Shaquille Palmer has been independently verified, and none of the claims from Wellington’s team- the seven-year timeline, the six missing bags, the pawning theory- have been independently corroborated either. Everything above comes from one side of an unfolding dispute: Wellington, her team, and Rick Rosa, speaking on social media and in statements provided to the press. Taken together, the Yung Miami account and the newer claims from Stormy’s camp are fueling speculation online about a pattern, but as of now they remain allegations, not established facts.
Neither Yung Miami nor Shaquille Palmer nor any representative for Palmer has publicly responded to these claims. We’ll update this story if that changes.
