LaBelle gives woman $100,000 for shouting at baby

PATTI LaBelle will pay $100,000 to settle a complaint that she verbally and physically assaulted a mother and her 18-month-old daughter in a Manhattan apartment lobby two years ago. The agreement ends a lawsuit that accused the singer of “yelling, screaming obscenities, throwing water and drenching with water, attempting to strike and physically injure” Roseanna Monk and her child, Genevieve, in the lobby of Trump Place on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on November 11, 2010. A jury trial had been scheduled for late November, but US District Judge John Koeltl signed an order dismissing the case at the request of each side Wednesday morning. LaBelle, who lived in the same apartment building as the Monks at the time, denied the allegations in her initial response to the lawsuit last December, according to court documents.                      –SS

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