NFL free agent Antonio Brown is accused of selling a fake Richard Millie watch in a Florida lawsuit.
Ryan Kane of Florida filed the complaint in Broward County earlier this week, alleging he was sold the fraudulent timepiece two months before. Kane claims Brown presented the watch—an RM 011 model—as authentic and claimed it was worth more than $400,000, Complex report.
Kane said he took Brown’s word and purchased the high-end watch for $160,000. He soon learned it was fake.
Several weeks after copping the “Millie,” he allegedly took it to an appraiser for insurance purposes. He was then informed that the watch was only worth about $200.
Kane did his own investigation and discovered that the controversial football star had purchased the knockoff, and a few others like it, for less than $500 apiece in Dubai. Brown was previously accused of stealing $122,000 of Jewelry in Dubai.
Kane is requesting the return of his $160,000, plus interest.
The lawsuit comes just days after Brown was caught on camera exposing himself to guests at the Armani Hotel Dubai. He defended himself in a series of tweets, claiming the NFL was using the Dubai incident to distract from the league’s concussion controversies.
“Every chance they get to sway the heat off themselves they use me. In the video you can clearly see she runs off with my swim trunks. If roles were reversed the headlines would read ‘AB having a wild night with nude female.’ Yet when it’s me it automatically becomes a hate crime.” He continued, “It’s crazy to me that even after I retire there is disinformation coming out about me. Ironically, during a time when the NFL is getting heat for allowing players to play when they’re clearly concussed. They’ve been using black men as guinea pigs.”
