Courtney Clenney: former social media star denied bond while awaiting trial for boyfriend’s murder

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The social media star accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death has been denied bond and will remain in jail while awaiting trial, CBS reports.

In a hearing on Dec. 8, 2022, Judge Laura Shearon Cruz denied the defense’s request for Clenney to be released, while the prosecution argued that the alleged millions she made as a content creator on OnlyFans made her a flight risk, CBS says.

The Daily Mail previously reported that Clenney made over $3 million since 2020 on her OnlyFans account, which was shut down after her arrest in August 2o22.

Judge Shearon stated she doesn’t buy Clenney’s claim of self-defense, in which Clenney claimed she threw a knife at her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, from ten feet away, the New York Post reveals.

A medical examiner, according to Miami State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, said Obumseli’s injuries are more aligned with a downward thrusting of a knife, not a throw, CBS previously reported.

Clenney is accused of stabbing Obumseli to death on April 3, 2022, after a tumultuous two year relationship filled with hostility and abuse allegations from Clenney, claiming Obumseli abused her, and Obumseli’s family and the prosecution, who point to Clenney as the abusive one of the relationship, CBS reports.

Clenney, 26-years-old, has been charged with second-degree murder, CBS says. In…

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Lavinia Thompson
Degrees of Monstrosity: Female Killers

Just an old garden witch who writes about murder, true and fictional.