More than 14 months after Bobbi Kristina was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her Georgia home in January 2015, Atlanta’s Fulton County Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford ruled on Friday that Nick Gordon was found “legally responsible” in her death.
Gordon, who was the former boyfriend of the late Bobbi Kristina failed to appear in court on Friday, September 16.
Reports say a jury will determine the amount of damages to be awarded to Brown’s conservator.
Bobbi Kristina, the daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her Georgia home in January 2015. A circumstance similar to Houston’s 2012 death. Bobbi Kristina died at age 22 in July 2015 following a six-month medically induced coma.
One month later, the R&B scion’s estate filed a $50 million wrongful death suit against her ex-boyfriend Gordon.
According to court documents obtained by Radar Online last October, the lawsuit filed by Bobbi Kristina’s conservator, Bedelia Hargrove, alleges that “Ms. Brown died due to a violent altercation with Gordon after which he placed her in a bathtub, unconscious, after he injected her with a toxic mixture.”
Gordon, who has vehemently denied the claims, has yet to be charged criminally.
Meanwhile, in response to the news that Nick Gordon was found “legally responsible” for his late daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown’s death, Bobby Brown has issued a statement to Us Weekly.
“I am pleased with the outcome of today’s court proceedings. All I ever wanted was answers relating to who and what caused my daughter’s death,” the statement reads.
“Today’s judgment tells me it was Nick Gordon. Now I need to process all the emotions I have and lean on God to get me and my family through this.”
