Nov. 14, 2025

"TIKTOK HOMEWRECKER ORDERED TO PAY $1.75M, MELODEE'S MOM FREED & MEGAN THEE STALLION SHOOTER STAYS LOCKED UP"

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Reid Carter covers North Carolina jury awarding wife $1.75 million after TikTok influencer Brenay Kennard with 3 million followers had affair with her husband—one of only six states allowing "alienation of affection" lawsuits. Wild trial featured Kennard representing herself, cross-examining victim about her miscarriage while gallery gasped. Husband arrested for bringing gun to courthouse. Plus: Judge orders Brandi Harmon released from jail after she finally answered questions about missing 4-year-old Melodee Buzzard—still no body found. And California appeals court denies Tory Lanez's petition challenging his 10-year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in both feet.

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Callaroga Shark Media, good morning, I'm reed Carter Friday, November fourteenth,

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twenty twenty five. Three legal updates today that show the

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range of American justice, from social media drama to missing

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children to celebrity shootings. North Carolina jury just awarded Akira

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Montague one point seventy five million dollars after TikTok influencer

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Brene Kennard three million followers had an affair with Akira's husband.

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North Carolina is one of only six states that still

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allows alienation of affection lawsuits. Basically, you can sue the

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person who stole your spouse. The trial was wild. Kennard

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represented herself, cross examined, Akira on the stand, asked about

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her miscarriage, gallery gasped husband Tim showed up to court

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with a gun. On November fifth, got a jury deliberated

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two hours, one point seventy five million dollars pay up.

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Missouri judge ordered Brandy Harmon released from jail yesterday. She'd

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been held in contempt for refusing to answer questions about

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her missing four year old daughter, Melody. Buzzard. Judge found

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she finally purged her contempt by answering questions at a

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November seventh hearing released on ten thousand dollars bond, but

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she still faces criminal charges for child neglect and obstruction,

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and Melody is still missing. No body, just blood on

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mom's shoes. And California and Appeals Court denied Tory lane

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As his petition challenging his conviction for shooting Megan d Stallion.

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He's serving ten years. He shot her in both feet

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after an argument leaving Kylie Jenner's party in July twenty twenty.

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The defense argued judicial errors. The court said, no conviction stands,

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sentence stands. Lanez stays locked up. Today, when social media

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influencers destroy families, when mothers finally talk, and when celebrity

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shooters stay where they belong, this is celebrity trials. Let's

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start in North Carolina, Greensboro, Guilford County Superior Court, Civil

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trial Akira Montague versus Brene Kennard. This is a lawsuit

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most Americans didn't know you could file alienation of affection

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and criminal conversation. Sounds like something from the eighteen hundreds

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because it basically is. North Carolina is one of only

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six states, along with Hawaii, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota

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and Utah that still allows these lawsuits. The concept if

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someone has an affair with your spouse and ruins your marriage,

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you can sue them for damages. Alienation of affection means

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the third party destroyed a previously happy marriage. Criminal conversation

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is the legal term for having sex with someone else's spouse. Yes,

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criminal conversation means adultery. Welcome to archaic legal terminology. Most

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states abolished these laws decades ago, called them antiquated, unenforceable,

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bad policy, but six states kept them and North Carolina

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juries have awarded millions in these cases. Enter Brenee Kennard

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twenty nine years old, TikTok influencer three million followers, about

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two hundred and seventy five thousand on Instagram. Lifestyle content

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creator posts about fashion relationships. Daily Life makes money from

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social media lives. The influencer dream and Akira Montague married

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Tim Montague in twenty eighteen. Two Children Together. Lawsuit described

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their marriage as happy and loving with genuine love and affection.

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Your standard American family, working, raising kids, build holding a life.

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Tim Montague worked as a sales manager for Brene Kennard,

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so Kennard was his boss and she was close friends

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with Akira. The two women confided in each other about

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their respective marriages, talked about relationship problems, shared personal details

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best friends. Here's where it gets messy. Kennard's husband and

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Tim Montague were cousins, so this wasn't just friends and

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co workers. This was extended family. Kennard would stay at

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the Montague home when visiting sleepovers, family dinners integrated into

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their lives. According to Akira's lawsuit, that's when Kennard began

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to seduce Tim. The complaint describes Kennard wearing very short

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skirts while bending over in front of him intentional calculated

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testing boundaries. December twenty twenty three. The lawsuit claims Kennard

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and Tim first had sex in the Montague's home while

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Akira was there. Let me read you the exact language

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from the complaint. Was seen twerking and shaking her bottom

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on plaintiff's husband and bathroom located in the marital home.

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Twerking in the bathroom in Akira's house make it make sense.

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The affair escalated. Kennard and Tim developed a flirtatious relationship

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that they flaunted on social media. Because nothing says I

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respect your marriage. Quite like publicly flirting with your employee,

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your friend's husband on TikTok where three million people can watch.

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According to the lawsuit, Kennard and Tim would talk openly

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about how much they enjoyed having sex with each other,

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had intercourse when Akira was home sleeping. This is your

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best friend's husband, your employee, in her house while she's

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asleep down the hall with their children. Some people just

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can't be rehabilitated. Some people are just evil. Eventually, Tim

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Montague abandoned Akira and their two children, moved out, went

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to live with Brene. Kennard left his wife and kids

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for his boss, for his wife's best friend, for his

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cousin's wife. July twenty twenty four, Akira filed the lawsuit

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alienation of affection, criminal conversation, seeking damages for the destruction

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of her marriage, the emotional harm, the impact on her children,

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the betrayal. The trial was scheduled for early November twenty

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twenty five, and it became a circus. Brenee Kennard decided

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to represent herself, no attorney, just her cross examining witnesses,

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making legal arguments, presenting her own defense. Because when you

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have three million TikTok followers. You think you can do anything,

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smart enough to build a social media empire, too stupid

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to hire a lawyer for a multimillion dollar lawsuit. The

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trial featured Cannard directly confronting Akira on the witness stand.

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Akira testified about the affair, about the betrayal, about finding

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out her best friend was sleeping with her husband, about

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her children, asking where Daddy went. Then Kennard cross examined

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her and went for the jugular. According to the Rally

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News and Observer's courtroom reporting, Kennard asked Akira about a

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miscarriage she'd suffered. That must have been painful for you, right.

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The gallery gasped audibly. Social media influencers who'd shown up

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to document the case couldn't believe what they were hearing

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Akira's response, Well, I wouldn't expect you to know since

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you don't have children. The judge had to remove the

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jury at one point scolded both women for editorializing, told

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them to stick to facts. Stop the commentary. This is

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a courtroom, not a TikTok video. Akira testified that having

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Kennard stay at her house made her so uncomfortable she

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quit school, that the situation destroyed her mental health, that

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she couldn't function knowing what had happened in her own home.

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Kennard suggested Akira was wrongly blaming her for all her problems,

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that the marriage was already falling apart, that Akira was

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using the lawsuit as escape goat. Akira's response, I take

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accountability for allowing an intruder into my home. She described

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the impact on her family started crying on the stand.

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My children aren't the same. But in closing arguments, Kennard

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dismissed the entire case as a money grab. This was

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a marriage that had been falling apart for years. Classic

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defense in alienation of affection cases argue the marriage was

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already dead, that you didn't destroy anything, it was already destroyed.

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That the plaintiff is just looking for someone to blame

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and someone to pay. Here's the problem with that argument.

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Even if the marriage had problems, you don't sleep with

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your friend's husband. You don't flaunt the affair on social media,

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you don't twerk on him in their bathroom, you don't

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have sex in their house while she's sleeping, and you

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definitely don't cross examine her about her miscarriage. During trial,

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the jury deliberated for nearly two hours, returned with a

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verdict guilty on both counts, alienation of affection, criminal conversation

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damages one point seventy five million dollars. Akira's supporters in

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the gallery erupted, chanting team Akira celebration. Justice served. Brenee

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Kennard now owes her former best friend one point seventy

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five million dollars for destroying her marriage. But wait, there's more.

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November fifth, during the trial, Tim Montague, the husband at

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the center of all this, was arrested. Why he brought

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a gun to the courthouse? Your tax dollars at work?

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Man whose affair is being litigated decides to show up armed.

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Security found the weapon, arrested him, charged him with bringing

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a firearm into a government building. What was he planning

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to do? Shoot his wife, shoot his girlfriend, shoot the

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jury if they ruled against Kennard. We don't know, but

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bringing a gun to your wife's civil trial against your

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mistress is not the move. And and it gets better.

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This was technically a civil case, but everyone involved has

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criminal charges now. Tim Montague arrested for the gun Akira

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Montague found guilty of criminal contempt for violating a prior

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custody order. Unclear what that means, but she was held

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in contempt. At some point during the proceedings, Brene Kennard

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charged with cyber stalking, presumably against Akira using social media

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to harass her former friend. So the affair led to

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a one point seventy five million dollar verdict, a gun arrest,

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contempt charges, and cyber stalking charges, all because an influencer

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couldn't keep her hands off her employee. Now Kennard has

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to pay one point seventy five million dollars. Good luck

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earning that back through TikTok sponsorships. Maybe she can post

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a video Day in the life of someone who owes

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one point seventy five million dollars for sleeping with her

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best friend's husband. Get those engagement numbers up. Here's the

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question should alienation of affection lawsuits exist? Arguments for marriage

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is a legal contract. If someone intentionally destroys that contract,

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they should face consequences. Affairs have real harm emotional, financial,

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familial victims deserve recourse arguments against. You can't legislate love.

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People fall for the wrong person, Marriages fail for complex reasons,

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not just because of affairs. Allowing these lawsuits turns divorce

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into a money making opportunity, opens the door for vindictive litigation.

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I'll tell you this, most states got rid of these

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laws because they're messy, hard to prove, turn courtrooms into

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he said, she said, drama about whose marriage was happy

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and whose wasn't. But in this case, Kennard admitted the affair,

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admitted having sex with Tim Montague. The only question was

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whether she alienated his affections from Akira, and the jury

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said yes, one point seventy five million dollars. Yes. Was

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the marriage perfect before the affair? Probably not, Most marriages aren't.

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But Kennard didn't just sleep with Tim. She was Akira's

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best friend, stayed in their home, knew their children, had

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access to their lives, then betrayed all of it. That's

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not just an affair, that's calculated destruction of a family.

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Akira Montague will probably never collect the full one point

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seventy five million dollars. Kennard will appeal, will drag this out,

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We'll claim she doesn't have the money, will file bankruptcy,

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will do whatever influencers do when they can't pay their debts.

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But the verdict sends a message. Actions have consequences. You

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can't destroy families and walk away, even if you have

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three million followers. The real victims here are the two

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children who watch their father leave, who don't understand why

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daddy lives with mommy's friend now, who are growing up

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with parents at war and civil court, criminal court, and

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probably family court too. Those kids didn't ask for any

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of this. They just wanted a family. Instead, they got

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a TikTok drama that became a national news story. Make

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it make sense. We'll be right back with updates on

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Melody Buzzard's mother finally being released from jail after answering

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questions about her missing daughter, and Tory Lane is losing

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his appeal for shooting Megan they Stallion. Welcome back to

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celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter. Update from Missouri in the

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Melody Buzzard case. We've been covering this for months. Four

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year old girl missing since July twenty twenty four. Mom

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Brandy Harmon, refusing to tell anyone where her daughter is

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held in contempt of court. Jailed still wouldn't talk. Yesterday,

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November thirteenth, Judge Joshua Dear ordered Harmon released from custody.

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Why Because on November seventh, she finally started answering questions.

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Judge found she had purged her contempt by providing information

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during a closed door hearing last week. Released on ten

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thousand dollars bond back out. No longer in jail for contempt,

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but she still faces criminal charges child neglect obstruction. Those

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charges move forward separately. The contempt release doesn't mean she's free,

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it means she's no longer being held for refusing to cooperate.

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What did Harmon say in that November seventh hearing. We

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don't know. It was sealed family Court closed proceedings, but

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whatever she said was enough to convince Judge Dear she

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was finally cooperating. Here's what we know about the case.

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July twenty twenty four, Melody Buzzard disappeared four years old.

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Brandy Harmon is her mother. Melody also has a father,

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Tyler Buzzard, who's been fighting for custody and demanding answers.

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Harmon initially claimed Melody was with fans Emily, then changed

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her story, then refuse to answer questions, invoked her Fifth

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Amendment right against self incrimination, which tells you everything you

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need to know about what happened to Melody. If your

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daughter was alive and safe, you'd say where she is,

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you'd cooperate, you'd bring her home. You only invoke the

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fifth when answering would incriminate you in a crime. Investigators

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found blood evidence on Harmon's shoes. Testing confirmed it was

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consistent with being Melody's blood. No body found, but blood

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evidence suggests the worst. Tyler Buzzard, Melody's father, has been

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begging for answers, filed for custody, demanded Harmon beheld accountable.

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The court agreed, held her in contempt when she refused

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to talk, jailed her until she cooperated. That was the

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legal pressure point. You can't just refuse to answer questions

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about a missing child. Courts have the power to hold

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you in contempt, jail you indefinitely until till you comply.

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Harmon stayed silent for months. Finally last week she answered

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something enough to purge the contempt, enough to get released.

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But Melody is still missing. No body recovered, no confirmation

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she's alive, no answers for her father or the public.

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This case has gone national. Social media obsessed with it,

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True crime communities demanding justice everyone asking the same question,

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where is Melody Buzzard and the only person who knows

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won't say. Harmon's release doesn't mean this is over. The

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criminal charges child neglect and obstruction are still pending. Prosecutors

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can still charge her with more serious crimes if evidence

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supports it, and if Melody's body is found, murder charges

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are on the table. But for now, Harmon is out

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on bond, awaiting trial on the existing charges, and Melody

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is still missing. Four years old should be starting kindergarten,

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learning to read, playing with friends. Instead, She's been missing

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for four months. Blood evidence suggests she's dead, and her

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mother won't say where she is. Some people just can't

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be rehabilitated. Some people are just evil. Melody Buzzard, four

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years old, deserves to be found, deserves a proper burial,

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deserves justice, and her father deserves answers. Rest in peace, Melody,

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someone has to say your name. Quick update from California

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Court of Appeal just denied Tory Lane's his petition challenging

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his conviction for shooting Megan V. Stallion. Tory Lane's real name,

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Daystar Peterson is serving ten years in state prison. Convicted

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December twenty twenty two of three felonies, assault with a

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semi automatic firearm, possession of a concealed and unregistered firearm,

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and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. July twenty twenty,

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Lane's and Meghan were leaving a party at Kylie Jenner's

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house in the Hollywood Hills. Got into an argument in

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the car. Meghan got out started walking away. Lane shot

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her multiple times, hit her in both feet. She collapsed, bleeding,

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begging him to stop. Police arrived, found Meghan injured, found

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lane Is with a gun, arrested him. Megan initially didn't

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tell police what happened, Afraid, traumatized, eventually came forward, said

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Lane as shot her. Testified at trial about the shooting,

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about the pain, about the betrayal they'd been friends. Jury

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convicted Lane's on all counts August twenty twenty three. Sentenced

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to ten years, could have gotten up to twenty two years.

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Judge gave him ten. Lane's attorneys immediately filed appeals. The

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main arguments judicial errors during trial, evidentiary issues, claimed the

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judge improperly admitted certain evidence, claimed the jury instruction were flawed,

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claimed Lane's didn't get a fair trial standard appeal arguments.

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Every convicted defendant claims judicial error. Sometimes they're right. Most

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of the time they're not. California Court of Appeal reviewed

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the case, examined the trial record, reviewed the evidence, checked

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the jury instructions. Looked for errors, found none significant enough

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to overturn the conviction. Yesterday denied Lana's petition. Conviction stands,

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sentence stands, he serves the full ten years. Lanez can

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still appeal to the California Supreme Court. Probably will, but

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the odds of them taking the case are slim. Appellate

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courts affirmed the conviction. No glaring errors, no miscarriage of justice,

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Just a man who shot a woman and got convicted.

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Megan the Stallion testified about the shooting, about Lanez yelling

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dance bitch while firing at her feet, about the physical

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pain and emotional trauma, about people not believe leaving her,

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about the public ridicule she was telling the truth. The

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jury believed her. The judge sentenced him. The appellate court

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affirmed it, and Tory Lanez stays in prison good. He

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shot an unarmed woman in the feet, could have killed her,

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left her bleeding on the street, showed no remorse, denied

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it happened, tried to destroy her credibility. Ten years isn't enough,

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but it's something. Megan thy Stallion, thirty years old Grammy

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winning rapper, survived being shot by someone she considered a friend.

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Spoke out despite public backlash, testified despite knowing she'd be attacked,

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got justice, and Tory Lanez learned that shooting people has consequences,

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even in America, even for celebrities, even when the victim

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is a successful black woman. The Internet loves to doubt.

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Justice isn't always fast, but it's always riveting. That's celebrity

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trials for Friday, November fourteenth, twenty twenty five, TikTok influencer

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Brenee Kennard ordered to pay one point seventy five million

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dollars for having an affair with her best friend's husband.

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North Carolina still allows alienation of affection lawsuits. Kennard represented herself,

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asked about the victim's miscarriage during cross examination, jury said

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pay up. Brandy Harmon released from jail after finally answering

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questions about missing four year old Melody Buzzard still faces

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criminal charges, Melodies still missing, and Tory Lane's appeal denied

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stays in prison for shooting Megan. They Stallion ten years

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justice served. I'm reed, Carter. Have a great weekend. This

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is celebrity trials.