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OnlyFans model accused in Miami murder pictured with taped knuckles, bloody elbow after video meltdown
EXCLUSIVE: An industry colleague present during a photo shoot in Aspen, Colorado, where OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney was seen berating her late lover Christian Obumseli and pummeling him, says friends tried repeatedly to get the couple help before she fatally stabbed him in April 2022.
In a newly unveiled video, Clenney, known online as Courtney Tailor, was filmed during a group trip to the Rocky Mountain ski town during February 2022. In it, Clenney screamed profanities at Obumseli, calling him a “boy” and a “b—-” while swinging her hand at his face and upper body.
“Christian was a very large guy, and he could’ve easily done damage if he wanted to, but he never fought back,” their mutual friend, who was present on the trip but asked not to be identified due to concerns about repercussions, told Fox News Digital. “He always would just take the abuse from her, and literally the video shows everything.”
MIAMI ONLYFANS MODEL CHARGED WITH BOYFRIEND’S MURDER AFTER BLOODY FIGHT RULED SELF-DEFENSE
Courtney Clenney poses for a photo in Aspen, Colorado, Feb. 2, 2022. The OnlyFans model is reported to have had a physical altercation with her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, just prior to this photo being taken. Clenney is accused of stabbing Obumseli to death in Miami on April 3, 2022. (@dextercoffman)
The 27-year-old Clenney was charged in August 2022 with her boyfriend’s murder after stabbing him through the heart on April 3 of that year. She initially claimed self-defense and investigators accepted that version of events and did not announce her prosecution until months after the slaying.
A screenshot taken from video shows Courtney Clenney pulling Christian Obumseli’s shirt as she screams at him during an altercation in Aspen, Colorado, months before she fatally stabbed him in their Miami apartment. (The Haggard Law Firm)
Obumseli would regularly face rants from Clenney, the friend said, describing the model as “extremely easily triggered.”
WATCH: OnlyFans model seen attacking boyfriend on Aspen ‘content’ trip months before stabbing him
“And even though he was trying to keep her calm, he wasn’t successful all the time,” they said. “That anger would never redirect toward other people. It was only directed toward him.”
In the three-minute Aspen video, Clenney can be heard blaming Obumseli for her own drinking, telling him he was “fired” and screaming at him to leave. She also accuses him of costing her money and flirting with other women. Less than two months later, she stabbed him to death.
Courtney Clenney poses for a photo in Aspen, Colorado, Feb. 2, 2022. The OnlyFans model is reported to have had a physical altercation with her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, just prior to these photos being taken. Clenney is accused of stabbing Obumseli to death. (@dextercoffman)
“I was f—ing sober for two weeks, two weeks, two weeks,” she repeats, wearing tiger-striped leggings and a blue jacket, while hitting him in the living room of a luxury ski lodge. “And now why am I not sober? Because of you.”
The insider tells Fox News Digital she showed up drunk to the photo shoot and with a bloody scrape on her elbow. The cause of the injury was unclear, and their friend doubted Obumseli caused it. Clenney shared some of the photos from the trip to her Instagram account.
However, at another point on the trip, Obumseli showed up with a fresh stitch on his face, according to the tipster.
Courtney Clenney poses for a photo in Aspen, Colorado, Feb. 2, 2022. The OnlyFans model is reported to have had a physical altercation with her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, just prior to this photo being taken. Clenney is accused of stabbing Obumseli to death in Miami on April 3, 2022. (@dextercoffman)
“His beard was growing over it,” they said. “I didn’t say anything but obviously something had happened.”
Lawyers for Obumseli’s family say a long trail of evidence shows Clenney was the manipulative abuser with a history of domestic violence, not him.
The 3-minute clip was recorded on another colleague’s cellphone. Clenney addressed the cameraman multiple times, first noting he was “looking” and later asking him, “can you send [Obumseli] home?”
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Courtney Clenney is being taken away during an evidentiary hearing. She is the OnlyFans model accused of murdering her boyfriend Christian Obumseli on April 3, 2022 in Miami. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via Pool)
As Obumseli remains calm, Clenney says she’s “done” and takes another swing at his face.
“We see this time and time again in this case, that Christian was the victim,” Kimberly Wald, an attorney for Obumseli’s family, told Fox News Digital. “He ultimately was the victim who died at the hands of his abuser, of Courtney.”
WATCH: ‘OnlyFans trip’ video meltdown shows pattern of violence before model stabbing, lawyer says
Although Obumseli reportedly made a living trading crypto coins, Wald said describing him as a breadwinner is a “misconceived perception” and that the multimillionaire Clenney was in control of most aspects of their relationship, from their finances to his heartstrings.
“He needed Courtney for finances,” Wald said. “For love, all of those things in his life.”
The two met during another trip to Tulum, Mexico, where Clenney and other OnlyFans figures visited the home of one of Obumseli’s friends. They got together in Austin, Texas, and then moved together to Miami.
FLORIDA MAN DEAD, MODEL LOVER FOUND SOAKED IN BLOOD
A pool of blood in Clenney’s luxury Miami high-rise apartment, where she’s accused of fatally stabbing Obumseli. (Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office)
“We have to raise awareness that if there is anyone out there struggling like Christian was struggling, they have to know that this isn’t OK,” Wald said. “You can speak out. Just because you’re a man, just because you’re a larger man, you can’t feel the shame of what’s going on, and you can still be a victim too.”
The couple had traveled to Aspen, Colorado, where Clenney planned to produce content for her OnlyFans followers, Wald said. Several photos taken at a snow-covered lodge in the skiing town also appeared on her Instagram account, which has more than 2 million followers.
In addition to the Miami murder charge, Clenney is facing a civil lawsuit from Obumseli’s family alleging negligence.
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Miami model Courtney Clenney’s lawyer said she is a domestic violence survivor. (Instagram/@courtneytailor)
Obumseli’s family is also suing the building manager of the luxury condo where the couple lived and the security firm that allegedly stood outside the couple’s apartment doing nothing as the stabbing took place, Wald said. Those parties have filed motions to dismiss the case, which she said she expects to fail.
Clenney’s lawyer, Frank Prieto, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
He previously told Fox News Digital there was “clear evidence of self-defense” and that Obumseli had choked Clenney in the moments before the stabbing.
“Courtney had no choice but to meet force with force,” he said.
A heavily redacted police report states officers arrived at the couple’s home around 5 p.m. in response to an aggravated battery call.
City of Miami police photographed a blood-covered Courtney Clenney after the alleged murder of her boyfriend Christian Obumseli.
They met a front desk supervisor who took them up to the apartment, where police found Obumseli with a single stab wound to the torso. Photos from the scene show Clenney covered in blood.
After the incident, she was taken to a hospital under the Baker Act for a mental health evaluation.
If you or someone you know is the victim of domestic abuse, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.
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University of Hawaii study finds San Andreas Fault stress at 1,000-year high | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
LOS ANGELES >> Stress on the San Andreas Fault system has reached a 1,000-year high, according to new research from the University of Hawaii.
Higher stress on a fault means the pressure that causes earthquakes is building.
“Our results show that stress levels on multiple fault segments are now at or above the highest values seen in the past millennium and that the region may be capable of a large through-going rupture involving both fault systems,” said lead author Liliane Burkhard, research affiliate in the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the UH-Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and a scientist at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
“We also found that Cajon Pass may act as an ‘earthquake gate:’ sometimes blocking large ruptures from crossing between the faults, and sometimes allowing them to pass through and involve both systems in a single event,” Burkhard said in a UH news release.
Multi-fault ruptures, where earthquakes continue from one fault to another, have occurred in multiple recent earthquakes, including the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake and became a part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s earthquake forecasting model in 2015.
This type of quake would be possible if the Cajon Pass, which is between the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains in Southern California, allows an earthquake to pass through it, meaning rather than affecting the area along one fault line, a quake could continue along a second fault and affect a larger area.
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But Kate Scharer, a co-author of the study and a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, said there’s no reason for California residents to be significantly more concerned than they were before hearing about the study.
While the stress has reached a milestone, the pressure was already high and the fault has been overdue for a large earthquake for some time, according to the study.
It has been over 100 years since a major tectonic rupture has affected the greater Los Angeles area, which means stress on the tectonic plates has been building, according to the study.
The 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake was the most recent “big one” to affect Southern California, while the San Jacinto Fault saw moderate earthquakes in 1918, 1968 and 1987, according to the study. A long period without seismic activity “raised concern that the next slip event in this region could be both large and complex,” the study says.
As more time passes, an earthquake becomes more likely because built-up energy needs to be released.
“We know for the southern San Andreas and the San Jacinto fault that they were just a little bit over the average (time between earthquakes) from looking at the geologic record,” Scharer said.
Those two faults are at highest risk for an earthquake because they are the fastest moving, she said.
The study looked at a geologic record of earthquake activity across the past 1,000 years, giving a new perspective on the total stress the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are under. Tectonic plates are always moving and accumulating stress, save for those few seconds where an earthquake is happening.
When an earthquake releases built-up stress from hundreds to thousands of years of an interseismic period, energy is felt in the form of an earthquake, Scharer said.
Earthquake forecast models from the U.S. Geological Survey are “a reminder that damaging earthquakes are inevitable for California,” and the new study highlights just how much stress the fault systems are under as Californians prepare for the “big one,” according to the USGS.
The study’s importance is with the calculations of stress the researchers did. After a geologic record, which looks at prehistoric earthquakes and is assembled by digging trenches across faults and looking at layers that have been offset in the past, is created, the researchers were able to determine that the stress on the San Andreas fault is at a 1,000-year high.
The stress level could influence if the Cajon Pass facilitates an earthquake spreading from one fault to another, or if it stops an earthquake from doing so. When the stress levels on both faults are similar, both faults appear to rupture jointly, according to the study.
Using a physics-based computer model, the researchers found that that the stress that would normally be released in large earthquakes has continued to accumulate and is at unprecedented levels.
The Cajon Pass, the study suggests, could facilitate a joint rupture of both the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults simultaneously, which could be “significantly more damaging than a single-fault event,” affecting densely populated areas including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and the Coachella Valley, according to the UH news release.
“This is not a prediction of when an earthquake will happen,” Burkhard said. “However, studies like this are important contributions to national and global earthquake hazard research in that we are using rigorous, quantitative science to better understand the risk facing millions of people. What we can say is that the system is critically stressed, and that physics-based models like this one give us a clearer picture of the range of scenarios we should be prepared for. That information matters for hazard assessments, infrastructure planning, and emergency preparedness.”
Honolulu Star-Advertiser staff contributed to this report.
What began as a handful of calls from Treasure Valley residents has grown into a rat problem that is exposing gaps in Idaho law and leaving homeowners to handle infestations largely on their own for at least another year.
Rats have been reported in the Treasure Valley since 2022, when Eagle residents started spotting Norway rats and roof rats in yards, under decks and near canals. Residents have also shared videos showing the rodents in their neighborhoods.
As the reports mounted, it became clear that no agency in Idaho is legally responsible for dealing with rats. The issue traces back to an 1868 legal doctrine known as Dillon’s Rule, which limits Idaho cities and counties to powers specifically granted by the state. Because rats are not mentioned in state law, local governments have no authority to act and no funding to do so.
During this legislative session, state lawmakers tried to change that. Senate Bill 1271 would have directed the Idaho Department of Agriculture to map infestations and coordinate a response across the Treasure Valley. The bill passed the Senate but later died in the House, with opponents arguing it was a local problem, not a state one.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says rats can spread diseases such as Plague and Salmonella through droppings, urine and bites.
With the Legislature out of session until next year, Sen. Nichols and Rep. John Gannon are pushing for action without waiting for a change in state law. This week, they sent a letter to local officials across the Treasure Valley urging cities, counties, irrigation districts and parks agencies to each designate a point person to help coordinate a response now.
The letter describes the situation as a public health, safety and property concern and warns that a coordinated effort now would be far less costly than a crisis later.
In the meantime, residents are being urged to seal vents, secure trash and call an exterminator if they see signs of rats. Nichols has said she fears that when lawmakers return next January, the problem will be harder and more expensive to solve.
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