OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney: Key decision in murder case delayed until after New Year

FLORIDA – A key decision in the case of an OnlyFans model accused of murdering her boyfriend over two years ago has been delayed.

A Florida judge has postponed a decision regarding controversial evidence obtained by the prosecution in the case of Courtney Clenney.

Clenney, an OnlyFans and Instagram star known online as Courtney Tailor, is facing a second-degree murder charge related to the April 2022 deadly stabbing of her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, in Florida.

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The evidence in question was part of the failed prosecution of her parents, 60-year-old Kim Dewayne Clenney and his wife, 57-year-old Deborah Lyn Clenney, who live in Bee Cave. The two were arrested in Austin in January and accused of hacking into Obumseli’s laptop.

Prosecutors say the seizure of evidence was lawful as they were unaware Clenney’s parents were represented by council at the time. However, Clenney’s defense team argues that the evidence is under attorney-client privilege and should not be made public.

The judge has postponed a decision until after the New Year holiday.

Who is Courtney Clenney?

Courtney Clenney was arrested in August 2022 in Hawaii for the April 2022 fatal stabbing of her live-in boyfriend, Christian Obumseli. She has been held without bond since her arrest.

At the time of her arrest, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle characterized Obumseli’s death at the couple’s Miami apartment as the culmination of a “tempestuous and combative relationship” that began in November 2020. 

The county medical examiner said in an autopsy report that Obumseli, who worked in cryptocurrency, died from a forceful downward thrust from a blade that went three inches into his chest, piercing a major artery. 

An arrest report said that Clenney acknowledged killing Obumseli but said she was acting in self-defense. She said Obumseli had pushed her and thrown her to the floor, which prompted her to grab a knife and throw it at Obumseli from about 10 feet away. The medical examiner said Obumseli’s wound could not have been caused by a knife thrown from that distance.

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Clenney has acknowledged killing Obumseli but said she was acting in self-defense. Her attorney, Frank Prieto, has also previously said that Obumseli was regularly abusive.

Clenney and Obumseli previously lived in a penthouse at the Berkshire Riverview in South Austin, where a neighbor who lived below them told FOX 7 Austin that their fights got so bad they quite literally spilled over into his apartment, such as when a tiger painting was thrown onto his tenth-floor balcony during a violent dispute.

Aidan Nesvisky told FOX 7 Austin that police were called on the couple multiple times, but when they moved to Florida, Rundle said the violence continued, getting so bad their building was prepared to evict them.

The arrest of her parents

Her parents, Kim and Deborah Clenney, were accused of tampering with evidence in her murder case and allegedly hacking into Obumseli’s laptop. 

The couple, as well as their daughter, were all charged with one count of unauthorized access or excessive access to a computer, computer system or electronic device, a third-degree felony in Florida.

The arrest affidavits for Clenney’s parents say that following Obumseli’s death, many of his belongings were taken from the couple’s Miami apartment and were not provided to his family, heirs or estate.

Investigators also confirmed with the attorney for Obumseli’s estate that they had never received his property from anyone nor gave permission to anyone to possess, keep or access his laptop, says the affidavits.

Investigators believe Clenney gave Obumseli’s laptop to her parents at some point between the killing and her arrest.

A warrant was issued for the iCloud accounts of Clenney and her parents due to shared messages, photos and finances of the three, says the affidavits. Those warrants led investigators to uncover a group chat between Clenney’s parents and Clenney’s attorneys, which contained messages about Obumseli’s laptop and how to access it, beginning the month after Clenney was arrested.

In one message, Clenney’s father allegedly said “Hell yeah! That PIN worked,” to which one of the attorneys replied “Kim. Hold off going through the computer please. I don’t want to turn you into a witness just yet if you find something useful.”

Deborah Clenney also allegedly transported the laptop to one of the attorneys in Dallas, says the affidavits. The laptop was then later turned over to an IT expert in Florida.

Hacking charges dropped

In July, South Florida prosecutors elected to drop the computer hacking charges against Clenney and her parents.

A circuit judge ruled in June that the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office violated attorney-client privilege in January when investigators confiscated text messages and emails between Clenney, her parents and her attorneys, according to court records. 

Defense attorney Jude Faccidomo, who represented the Clenneys in the hacking case, called for the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office to recuse itself from the murder case as prosecutors obtained communications about defense strategy, which they weren’t legally allowed to see.

The state attorney’s office didn’t respond to messages from The Associated Press at the time about whether it would recuse itself from Clenney’s murder case.

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