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- Flo Rida’s 6-year-old son suffered a fall from the fifth floor of an apartment on March 4.
- The child’s mother, Alexis Adams, filed a lawsuit against the property manager on Monday.
- Separately, Adams has also claimed that Flo Rida will not cover the child’s medical costs.
Rapper Flo Rida’s 6-year-old son suffered a fall from the fifth floor of a New Jersey condominium earlier this month, and the rapper has not paid the child’s health insurance or medical bills, according to the child’s mother, Alexis Adams.
On March 4, Adams’ son with Flo Rida, Zohar Dillard, fell from the window of her Jersey City apartment and suffered serious injuries, according to a lawsuit Adams filed this week.
Medical expenses costs further fuel a heated legal battle between Adams and Flo Rida, née Tramar Dillard. Adams said Dillard did not contribute to Zohar’s health insurance costs, as required by a 2018 court-ordered child support agreement.
A representative for Flo Rida did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
After falling from the fifth floor onto the concrete, Adams said the disabled Zohar suffered “a shattered pelvis, left metatarsal fractures, grade 3 liver tears, internal bleeding and collapsed lungs” and other injuries, according to a statement from her attorney.
“I’m just so grateful that my son is alive, fighting and still here with me. He’s a real superhero,” Adams said.
Flo Rida has been accused of not paying medical bills for years
In January, Adams told Insider that Flo Rida failed to pay child support around Zohar’s education and health insurance. Through the agreement, Dillard had been ordered by a Bronx County family court to pay Adams $9,000 a month in child support and the full cost of Zohar’s education and medical insurance, according to court records.
In an August 2021 affidavit asking Flo Rida to explain the missing payment, Adams claimed that she spent tens of thousands of dollars on legal representation and filed petitions with the court so the rapper could have a reason for the incomplete payments indicates or is held contempt of court. The principals of Zohar’s school, along with Adams, also emailed Flo Rida asking for tuition to be paid.
The alleged lack of payments also led to a massive $82 million judgment the rapper won against energy drink company Celsius in early 2023.
“Winning $82.6 million at Tramar didn’t surprise me,” Adams told Insider in January. It would really impress me if he “fulfils our child support order by reinstating Zohar’s health insurance and is a real family man and father to our son,” she said.
Dillard “failed to pay the monthly premium for Zohar’s health insurance,” Adams said in an August 2021 affidavit filed in support of a common cause order. And for all of 2020, “he failed to pay me $6,616.68 in health insurance premiums,” Adams claimed, adding that she was forced to pay out of pocket.
An insider-reviewed insurance document showed Zohar’s insurance was terminated in March 2020 after Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield failed to receive premium payments. Zohar was on Medicaid, which does not cover the physical therapy needed for his recovery from the fall, according to Adams.
In response to the fall, the rapper posted a story to Instagram on Wednesday, saying Zohar “receives the best medical care and miraculously survived a tragic fall.”
“I ask for your continued prayer,” the rapper added.
Alexis Adams
In January, Adams also had over $200,000 in unpaid tuition at Zohar’s school that Flo Rida was ordered to pay and cannot afford, according to the 2021 affidavit.
Recent court documents showed that in November 2022, an attorney for Dillard argued against the judge’s order to pay for the training, saying he could not afford it. By December 2022, Dillard’s team had petitioned the court to reduce his monthly child support.
A judge must determine whether Dillard waived educational payments and whether he owes expenses on Zohar, though no hearing date has been set.
Zohar’s mother is suing the building management for medical damages in her legal battle related to Zohar’s fall
In her lawsuit relating to Zohar’s fall, Adams sued property management company Goldberg Management and Pitch Perfect 74, LLC and unnamed construction companies for negligence, alleging that they were responsible for the fall “by installing windows that were a hazardous condition and/ or by “fitting the wrong size screens to the windows” and ignoring their repeated requests for the correct window screens.
Goldberg management did not immediately respond to insiders’ requests for comment.
The lawsuit seeks undisclosed medical damages for Zohar, who Adams said in the lawsuit “was and will be disabled and will be unable to perform his usual functions.”
“As a single mom to a child with special needs, this feels like a nightmare,” Adams told Insider in a statement. “My heart broke into a thousand pieces.”
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