Justin Bieber may be trying to shed his bad boy image, but his alleged rotten behavior from years past keeps catching up with him! On Friday, an Uber driver who claims that the singer hit him multiple times in the head during an incident in December 2013, filed court documents to sue Justin. The driver, Abdul Mohar, claims that he picked up six men--one of which was Bieber--in Toronto on December 30, 2013 in an SUV limo car. According to Mohar, Bieber began hitting him in the head after Mohar refused to turn up the car's music. Mohar claimed that Bieber tried to turn up the volume of the stereo himself and when Mohar protested, Bieber hit him on the cheek with a closed fist, and later hit him five more times.
Although Bieber had initially been charged with assault over the incident, the criminal charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence, according to Gossip Cop. According to the Toronto Star, the criminal charge was dropped against Bieber because it could not be determined, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Mohar's assailant had actually been Bieber. Mohar called 911 after the incident, and claimed that the person who had hit him had been black.
Mohar spoke with the Toronto Sun about the lawsuit, saying that he had been confused during the incident and later told police that his assailant was white, although most of the men in the car with the assailant were black. The newspaper reports that, after the incident, Bieber's tour manager, Josh Williams, admitted that Bieber was one of the men in Mohar's car during the incident.
Justin Bieber is being sued-- again! (WENN)
In his new lawsuit, Mohar is seeking $850,000 in damages from the ‘;All That Matters' singer, and wants a court-protection order that requires that Bieber stay at least 300 feet away from him.
In a statement to the Toronto Star, Bieber's lawyer Brian Greenspan claimed Mohar's lawsuit was “totally without merit.”
In recent months, Bieber has attempted to make amends for his bad behavior. In January, he posted a video after appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that contained an apology to fans.
“I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited [on Ellen] – basically how I've been acting the past year or a year and a half,” Bieber said in the video. "I'm not who I was pretending to be. And why I say pretending is often we pretend to be something we're not as a cover-up of what we're truly feeling inside. There were a lot of feelings going on in there — just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Growing up in general is hard."
Bieber is also being sued by his former neighbor, who is seeking $1 million from the singer. The neighbor, whose house was egged by Bieber and friends, claims that the incident ruined his reputation.
