According to Daily News and Analysis, in London, Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony are facing a 3-million-pound lawsuit launched by an airhostess who claims she was bitten by Anthony’s guard dog, Floyd. Lisa Wilson, a flight attendant for NetJets, claims that the couple’s military-trained German Shepherd attacked her while she was working on a private jet on July 3, 2006 while flying from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, Long Island, to Burbank, California.
Wilson claims that the “personal protection” dog growled at her as she walked past, before biting the leg of her trousers and causing her to fall over. Wilson alleges that she injured her back so badly she can no longer work and is now suing the couple in New York’s Brooklyn Federal Court for 3 million pounds. She claims that she had been warned to be careful around Floyd, suggesting the couple knew he was a threat. She also indicated that Anthony told her not to make eye contact with the dog and to call Floyd by his name if she needed to pass.
It has emerged that a vet who examined Floyd concluded that the singer and her husband were responsible for the alleged attack. Wilson was carrying silverware at the time of the alleged attack and the vet found that the couple’s personal chef had also been targeted by the dog when he carried sharp objects.
Wilson’s lawyer William Cafaro was quoted by the Daily Express as saying, “The dog was obviously dangerous and we will prove at tirla that it was only a matter of time before he hurt someone.” He also stated that Floyd should have had a muzzle or leash on and Lopez and Anthony should have warned Wilson “to stay completely away from the dog.”
Lopez and Anthony’s lawyer responded in court papers that the pair had hired their own animal-behavior expert to evaluate Floyd.
