The family of Christian “Toby” Obumseli released new video Thursday of former OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney physically and verbally attacking him while accusing Obumseli of cheating just months before she admitted to stabbing him to death in Miami.
The video is being used by the Haggard Law Firm as part of the murder case against Clenney. The firm is representing Obumseli’s family.
The video was shot in Aspen, Colorado in 2022 and was released via a public records request with the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office, according to the law firm.
Prosecutors say Clenney stabbed Obumseli in their Miami apartment on April 3, 2022, and prosecutors plan to use the Aspen video to show she was “volatile and violent.”
The video was taken by a third person and shows Clenney, who was wearing a blue puffy jacket over a zebra print sports bra and matching pants, attacking Obumseli, who was wearing a Boston Celtics jersey.
It’s unknown what started the argument, though Clenney is heard accusing Obumseli of flirting with other girls and tells him she had been sober for two weeks.
“And now why am I not sober? Because of you,” she tells Obumseli before slapping him in the video.
The video shows Clenney repeatedly trying to hit Obumseli, who does his best to stop the blows from landing and to keep her away from him.
“Actually I’m done, can you send him home?” Clenney was heard saying before turning back to Obumseli. “You’re costing me money, I didn’t do s--- since I got to this f---ing house because of you.”
Kimberly Wald, who represents Obumseli’s family, said the Aspen video shows the victim in the relationship was Christian.
“She (Clenney) just is consistently this volatile and agitated individual when she’s triggered and we see Christian, again being the victim,” she said. “He’s a victim of domestic violence and it substantiates all of the other evidence we have in this case that he is victimized, and he loves her, and he maybe doesn’t even know he’s in this volatile situation.”
The case
According to police, Clenney admitted to fatally stabbing Obumseli, her then live-in boyfriend on April 3, 2022, in Miami.
Both the defense and the prosecution agree the stabbing in the apartment they had shared in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood was a case of domestic violence. They just disagree on who was the abuser on the day of the stabbing.
Clenney’s defense has claimed she stabbed Obumseli in self-defense because she was a victim of his violence. Prosecutors have accused Clenney of being Obumseli’s abuser.
Obumseli’s family has since filed a lawsuit against One Paraíso Condo, the condo’s management company, and Allied Universal Security.
The lawsuit also claims Clenney exhibited a pattern of behavior. Haggard pointed to six police calls and a surveillance video recorded inside the condominium’s elevator as evidence of Clenney’s violence. He said there is also a record of calls by the condo’s management, the security company and several tenants.
Prosecutors also released a video of a fight in an elevator around the same time as the Aspen incident, where Clenney allegedly beat Obumseli.
In that incident, Clenney claimed that she feared Obumseli and was trying to get him out of the elevator so he would not follow her upstairs to her unit.
Clenney, now 27, has been at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center since Aug. 26, 2022, without bond on a second-degree murder charge, according to county jail records.
She is expected to appear in front of a judge on Friday morning.