\n Aaliyah<\/span>
\n Uncle Blames Singer\u2019s Cousin<\/span>
\n For Tragic Deadly Aircraft Crash<\/span>
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\n August 31, 2026
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Aaliyah’s uncle claims his son is partly in charge for the late singer’s dying … lobbing the bombshell allegation as the 2 combat over cash in courtroom.<\/p>\n
TMZ obtained a lawsuit filed by Jomo Hankerson towards Barry Hankerson and his file label Blackground Data. Barry is Aaliyah’s uncle and longtime supervisor. Jomo is Barry’s son and Aaliyah’s cousin.<\/p>\n
Within the docs, Barry claims Aaliyah’s cousin was paid to coordinate journey for her music video shoot within the Bahamas … referring to the fateful August 2001 journey the place she died in a aircraft crash.<\/p>\n
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Aaliyah’s uncle says his son “failed in his accountability” to deal with journey plans … and she or he as a substitute took a personal jet that crashed and killed everybody onboard.<\/p>\n
Barry says the deadly crash “could have been averted had [Jomo] adopted via on his compensated process of journey coordination.”<\/p>\n
Aaliyah’s uncle mentioned his relationship together with his son was by no means the identical after Aaliyah’s dying.<\/p>\n
Blame recreation apart, the remainder of the household struggle is fairly attention-grabbing too.<\/p>\n
Jomo claims his dad breached a settlement over music rights \u2026 particularly, recording masters and music publishing copyrights for Aaliyah, Toni Braxton, DMX, and Timbaland.<\/p>\n
Jomo says he’s owed 12% of the cash Barry constructed from the music property per a settlement deal … however claims his dad used the file label to cover cash and “manufacture bills that don’t have anything to do with the music property, all for the aim of pressuring [him] into accepting lower than what he’s owed.” Jomo is looking for over $1.2 million in damages.<\/p>\n
Barry denied all allegations of wrongdoing within the go well with, claiming the settlement in query just isn’t legitimate as a result of it was executed below fraud.<\/p>\n
Barry additionally claimed his son as soon as threatened to launch unreleased Aaliyah music if his monetary calls for weren’t met.<\/p>\n
Jomo has additionally denied all claims of wrongdoing. The case is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n August 31, 2026
\n 1:00 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Aaliyah’s uncle claims his son is partly in charge for the late singer’s dying … lobbing the bombshell allegation as the 2 combat over cash in courtroom.<\/p>\n
TMZ obtained a lawsuit filed by Jomo Hankerson towards Barry Hankerson and his file label Blackground Data. Barry is Aaliyah’s uncle and longtime supervisor. Jomo is Barry’s son and Aaliyah’s cousin.<\/p>\n
Within the docs, Barry claims Aaliyah’s cousin was paid to coordinate journey for her music video shoot within the Bahamas … referring to the fateful August 2001 journey the place she died in a aircraft crash.<\/p>\n
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Aaliyah’s uncle says his son “failed in his accountability” to deal with journey plans … and she or he as a substitute took a personal jet that crashed and killed everybody onboard.<\/p>\n
Barry says the deadly crash “could have been averted had [Jomo] adopted via on his compensated process of journey coordination.”<\/p>\n
Aaliyah’s uncle mentioned his relationship together with his son was by no means the identical after Aaliyah’s dying.<\/p>\n
Blame recreation apart, the remainder of the household struggle is fairly attention-grabbing too.<\/p>\n
Jomo claims his dad breached a settlement over music rights \u2026 particularly, recording masters and music publishing copyrights for Aaliyah, Toni Braxton, DMX, and Timbaland.<\/p>\n
Jomo says he’s owed 12% of the cash Barry constructed from the music property per a settlement deal … however claims his dad used the file label to cover cash and “manufacture bills that don’t have anything to do with the music property, all for the aim of pressuring [him] into accepting lower than what he’s owed.” Jomo is looking for over $1.2 million in damages.<\/p>\n
Barry denied all allegations of wrongdoing within the go well with, claiming the settlement in query just isn’t legitimate as a result of it was executed below fraud.<\/p>\n
Barry additionally claimed his son as soon as threatened to launch unreleased Aaliyah music if his monetary calls for weren’t met.<\/p>\n
Jomo has additionally denied all claims of wrongdoing. The case is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n