Boosie didn’t shy away from expressing his disappointment after attempting to honor the late Caleb Wilson. Caleb, a Southern University student, was a victim of a fraternity hazing incident in February. This month, the rapper publicly shared his plans to start a scholarship in the 20-year-old’s memory. However, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill now claims that Boosie had no authority to mention Caleb’s name. In response, she’s threatening a lawsuit on behalf of his family.
Attorney General Accuses Boosie Of Doing THIS
As mentioned, the Baton Rouge artist announced the scholarship earlier this month during his sixth annual Boosie Bash Festival at Southern University. This week, Liz Murrill said Boosie used Caleb Wilson’s name, image, and likeness without the family’s permission, per local outlet WBRZ. She’s also asserting the rapper used Wilson’s memory for event promotion that wasn’t charitable.
“Caleb Wilson’s parents have advised me that they have not given consent and know nothing about their son’s name and image being used to promote this event,” the Louisiana Attorney General reportedly said.
The AG added, “They didn’t even know the event was happening. They have requested that his name, image, and any reference to a scholarship for him be removed from all promotional materials. I intend to take legal action due to their misappropriation of his name and image to promote their for-profit event. This is not a charitable event.”
Rapper Claps Back At Liz Murrill’s Threat
It didn’t take long for Boosie to learn of the lawsuit threat. He hopped on X (formerly Twitter) to clarify his intentions on Monday (March 24). Additionally, he rebuffed the notion that Caleb Wilson’s parents did not know about the scholarship or that he abused the late college student’s memory for a paid event. Boosie said the lawsuit threat is “the ultimate betrayal” and called out the Louisiana Attorney General and Wilson’s family.
“It’s sad for this lawyer n family to say I promoted my event off someone’s passing! My event was promoted on Eventbrite since Nov 14. This incident happened a week before my event was to take place! How the f**k can I capitalize off someone death for a concert. That’s ain’t me. A death of a student won’t help a concert., it would hurt a concert,” Boosie wrote.
The rapper added that he was asked to “help the situation” and believed that’s what he was doing. Taking legal action against him while he’s trying to help feels like a “completely wrong” slap in the face. “WHEN KEEPING IT REAL GOES WRONG SMH BR I’M DONE. ANOTHER MONEY GRAB ‼️THIS IS The ULTIMATE BETRAYAL SMH,” Boosie added.
On Tuesday (March 25),
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