Barber shop owner sues Katina Powell, book publisher over 'false allegations'
Mar 01, 2016 10:26 AM EST
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The owner of a barber shop mentioned in "Breaking Cardinal Rules" has filed a lawsuit against Katina Powell and IBJ Publishing.
Powell, 42, has claimed that she hosted 22 stripping and sex parties from 2010 to 2014 inside Billy Minardi Hall, the on-campus dorm for athletes.
Powell has said that former Louisville graduate assistant Andre McGee arranged the parties and paid her $10,000 for supplying dancers.
According to the complaint, in the book's first few pages, Powell claimed she met a friend named "Tink" at Cardinal Kuts, a barber shop owned by Donald Kentae Patterson, "where the smell of marijuana wasn’t unknown." The book says that's when Tink proposed that Powell provide dancers for University of Louisville basketball players.
According to the suit, on page 20 of the book, Powell claims Kentae (Donald Kinte’ Patterson) "requested a bachelor party that became a disaster."
The lawsuit says those statements cannot be true because Cardinal Kuts was not in existence in 2010 and 2011, and that Patterson didn't begin the shop until 2013.
WDRB has confirmed through the Secretary of State's office that Cardinal Kuts did not begin operating until 2013.
According to the lawsuit, Powell's book stated that "marijuana was commonplace" at the shop and implied that Patterson took part in introducing McGee to Powell "and set up the promotion, advancing, and profiting from dancers, escorts, strippers, and/or prostitutes at the University of Louisville."
Because of those statements, the lawsuit claims that Patterson has suffered "injury to his reputation, lost barber clients, lost income, had to quit coaching, and was required to change the name of his shop to Patterson's Barber Shop."
The suit is asking for damages for "intentional infliction of emotional distress/outrage" and "civil conspiracy."
Mar 01, 2016 10:26 AM EST
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The owner of a barber shop mentioned in "Breaking Cardinal Rules" has filed a lawsuit against Katina Powell and IBJ Publishing.
Powell, 42, has claimed that she hosted 22 stripping and sex parties from 2010 to 2014 inside Billy Minardi Hall, the on-campus dorm for athletes.
Powell has said that former Louisville graduate assistant Andre McGee arranged the parties and paid her $10,000 for supplying dancers.
According to the complaint, in the book's first few pages, Powell claimed she met a friend named "Tink" at Cardinal Kuts, a barber shop owned by Donald Kentae Patterson, "where the smell of marijuana wasn’t unknown." The book says that's when Tink proposed that Powell provide dancers for University of Louisville basketball players.
According to the suit, on page 20 of the book, Powell claims Kentae (Donald Kinte’ Patterson) "requested a bachelor party that became a disaster."
The lawsuit says those statements cannot be true because Cardinal Kuts was not in existence in 2010 and 2011, and that Patterson didn't begin the shop until 2013.
WDRB has confirmed through the Secretary of State's office that Cardinal Kuts did not begin operating until 2013.
According to the lawsuit, Powell's book stated that "marijuana was commonplace" at the shop and implied that Patterson took part in introducing McGee to Powell "and set up the promotion, advancing, and profiting from dancers, escorts, strippers, and/or prostitutes at the University of Louisville."
Because of those statements, the lawsuit claims that Patterson has suffered "injury to his reputation, lost barber clients, lost income, had to quit coaching, and was required to change the name of his shop to Patterson's Barber Shop."
The suit is asking for damages for "intentional infliction of emotional distress/outrage" and "civil conspiracy."
