The parents of the OnlyFans model accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend have been arrested on suspicion of "concealing evidence".
Courtney Clenney was charged with second-degree murder with a weapon for the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, on April 3, 2022, as reported by Court TV.
Obumseli, known as Toby to his loved ones, tragically passed away of a single stab wound to the upper chest in the luxury apartment building he shared with Clenney in Miami, Florida.
The 27-year-old pleaded not guilty and claimed that she stabbed her late partner in self-defense as he was allegedly physically abusing her.
Clenney was arrested in Hawaii and extradited to South Florida, where she has been at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without bond since August 2022.
On January 10, her parents, Deborah, 57, and Kim Clenney, 60, were taken into custody by police in Texas and booked into Travis County Jail just after 2:30PM on out-of-state felony warrants, according to WPLG.
Per the report, Kim reportedly found a laptop belonging to his daughter's late boyfriend in the same apartment where the man was fatally stabbed. The device was not taken immediately and turned over to the police.
"Clenney’s parents attempted to conceal evidence as they cleaned out her Edgewater high-rise apartment," the outlet said, citing police sources.
They added that the parents had allegedly tried accessing the laptop before handing it to Obumseli's attorneys.
Clenney's attorney spoke out about the parents' arrest and said that it sees it as a way of keeping them from speaking ahead of a gag order hearing later this week.
"We’re extremely surprised and very concerned about the arrest of the Clenney family; this could be an example of prosecutorial overreach and misconduct," Frank Prieto said in a statement obtained by Local 10 News. "The Clenneys have quite a story and it’s a story the State of Florida maybe does not want the public to hear.
"We believe the Clenney family has been targeted with some trumped up charges to discredit them in the press and make their lives miserable. It stinks of a power play by prosecutors to control the narrative," he added. "It appears the prosecutors are going for media mileage in this one with little or no evidence as we have yet to know what the true accusations are."
Earlier this month, the law firm representing Obumseli’s family released a disturbing three-minute-long clip that allegedly shows the pair fighting in a room in Aspen, Colorado, back in 2022.
It begins with Clenney screaming at Obumseli: "I was sober for two weeks! Two weeks, and then why am I not sober? Because of you!" before repeatedly hitting him. The boyfriend then grabs the model's hands, prompting her to tell him to let go repeatedly.
While the cause of the fight is unknown, Clenney accuses Obumseli of flirting with other women and touching someone’s breast. "Christian I’m f***ing fed up with you, I’m fed up with how you f***ing treat me," she said.
At one point she looks at the third person in the room and says: "Actually, I’m done. Can you send him home," before turning her attention back to Obumseli and appearing to slap him again.
"You’re costing me money, I didn’t do s*** since I got to this f***ing house because of you," she yelled, before concluding the video with: "Christian, you’re fired."
While the attorneys for Obumseli’s family argued that the footage reveals Clenney’s "physical and verbal abuse," the attorney representing the model reasserted her claim that she was the victim of abuse.
"This video is an example of the toxic relationship between Obumseli and Courtney Clenney. Evidence exists that Obumseli physically abused Courtney on prior occasions and on April 3, 2022, Courtney was forced to defend herself from Obumseli’s physical attack," her attorneys said in a statement to the publication.
