- Flo Rida’s 6-year-old son fell from the fifth floor of an apartment on March 4.
- The boy’s mother, Alexis Adams, filed a lawsuit against the building manager on Monday.
- Separately, Adams also alleged that Flo Rida does not cover the child’s medical costs.
Rapper Flo Rida’s 6-year-old son fell from the fifth floor of a New Jersey apartment complex earlier this month and the rapper hasn’t paid the boy’s health insurance or medical bills, according to the boy’s mother. , Alexis Adams.
On March 4, Adams’ son with Flo Rida, Zohar Dillard, fell out of the window of his Jersey City apartment and suffered serious injuries, according to a lawsuit filed by Adams this week.
The cost of medical bills adds more fuel to a heated legal battle between Adams and Flo Rida, whose birth name is Tramar Dillard. Adams said Dillard has not helped with Zohar’s health insurance costs as mandated by a 2018 court-ordered child support agreement.
A representative for Flo Rida did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
After falling to concrete from the fifth floor, Adams said Zohar, who is disabled, suffered “a shattered pelvis, left metatarsal fractures, grade 3 liver laceration, internal bleeding and collapsed lungs” and other injuries, according to a statement from his lawyer
“I’m so thankful that my son is alive, fighting and still here with me. He is a real life superhero,” Adams stated.
Flo Rida was accused of not paying medical bills for years
In January, Adams told Insider that Flo Rida has defaulted on child support payments around Zohar’s health and education insurance. Through the settlement, a Bronx County family court had asked Dillard to pay Adams $9,000 a month for child support, as well as the full cost of Zohar’s education and health insurance, according to the court documents.
In an August 2021 affidavit requesting that Flo Rida explain the non-payment, Adams claimed that he has spent tens of thousands of dollars on legal representation, filing motions with the court for the rapper to provide a reason for the underpayments or whether held in prison. contempt of court. Zohar’s school administrators also emailed Flo Rida along with Adams, requesting tuition payment.
The alleged non-payment was also behind a massive $82 million verdict the rapper won against the Celsius energy drink company in early 2023.
“Hammer made $82.6 million, it didn’t surprise me,” Adams told Insider in January. For him to comply “with our child support order by reinstating Zohar’s health insurance and being a true family man and father to our son would really impress me,” she said.
Dillard “has not paid Zohar’s monthly health insurance premium,” Adams said in an August 2021 affidavit filed in support of an order to show cause. And for all of 2020, she “failed to pay me $6,616.68 in health insurance premium costs,” Adams alleged, adding that she was forced to pay out of pocket.
An insurance document reviewed by Insider showed that Zohar’s insurance was terminated in March 2020, after Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield failed to receive premium payments. Zohar has been on Medicaid, according to Adams, which does not cover physical therapy needed for her recovery after the fall.
In response to the fall, the rapper posted a story on instagram on Wednesday, saying that Zohar “is receiving the best medical care and miraculously survived a tragic fall.”
“I ask for your continued prayer,” the rapper added.
In January, Adams also had an unpaid tuition balance of more than $200,000 with Zohar’s school that Flo Rida was asked to pay and is unable to pay, according to the 2021 affidavit.
Recent court documents showed that in November 2022, a lawyer for Dillard argued against the judge’s orders to pay for education, saying he couldn’t afford it. By December 2022, Dillard’s team had asked the court to reduce her monthly child support payment.
A judge will have to determine if Dillard has skipped tuition payments and if he owes Zohar’s expenses, though no hearing date has been set.
Zohar’s mother seeks medical damages from building management in her lawsuit related to Zohar’s fall
In his lawsuit related to the Zohar fall, Adams sued the building management company, Goldberg Management, as well as Pitch Perfect 74, LLC, and unnamed construction companies for negligence, alleging that they were at fault for the fall “by installing windows that posed a dangerous condition and/or installing the wrong size window guards on those windows,” and ignoring their repeated requests for adequate window guards.
Goldberg Management did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.
The lawsuit seeks undisclosed medical damages for Zohar, who, according to Adams in the lawsuit, “has been and will in the future be disabled and unable to perform his usual duties.”
“As a single parent of a child with special needs, this feels like a nightmare,” Adams told Insider in a statement. “My heart is broken into a million pieces.”
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