T.I. is getting ready to release Kill The King very soon, but he has a long-running legal headache he wants to put behind him for good first. According to AllHipHop, he asked a federal judge in Los Angeles to dismiss what's left of assault accuser Sabrina Peterson's case against him.
For those unaware, she claims a July 2025 Instagram video from the rapper caused her emotional distress. The video consisted of him promoting Washington, D.C. comedy show and made comments that Peterson felt threatened her. "It’s a beautiful day to not spread lies and to not be negative. It’s a beautiful day, man, to mind your business," the Atlanta MC had said.
Earlier this week on Monday (June 15), he reportedly filed the motion asking United States District Judge Fernando M. Olguin to dismiss Sabrina's claim against him. J. Cameron-Banks, Tip's attorney, claimed her emotional distress claim is false, pointing to the plaintiff's amended responses with no additional facts and her consistent returns to allegations from 2007 and 2014.
The rapper's team argued the IG video in question never referenced her explicitly and that only three of 45,000 accounts that liked the video or commented on it mentioned her by name. They also argued the Instagram post doesn't meet legal standards for actionable emotional harm.
T.I. & Sabrina Peterson Case
This legal battle between T.I. and Sabrina Peterson emerged explicitly in 2021. She accused him of pointing a gun at her head during a fight with his assistant, which he and his wife Tiny denied. Peterson later sued for defamation, invasion of privacy, and more.
But in June of 2023, a court dismissed most of the case, ordering her to pay the couple over $96K in legal fees. Another judge threw the case out in March of 2025 due to lack of progress, which related to defamation and court-abuse claims.
T.I. federally sued Sabrina Peterson for defamation in December of 2024, claiming her allegations about a federal investigation into him for alleged sex trafficking are completely false. Following the dismissal of Peterson's defamation and counter-abuse allegations, plus other accusations, the only thing that stands of her case against him is this emotional distress claim.
The hearing over this dismissal request will reportedly take place on July 30 at Los Angeles' First Street Courthouse.
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