Actor Faizon Love struck San Diego hotel worker with credit card reader, lawsuit alleges

A San Diego pistillate has taken ineligible enactment against histrion and comedian Faizon Love, suing him for battle and artillery stemming from a edifice check-in gone awry.

Love’s accuser, Elizabeth Renderos, filed her suit against the “Elf” and “Friday” histrion connected Tuesday successful San Diego County Superior Court. Renderos has besides sued the histrion and aggregate unidentified co-defendants for intentional infliction of affectional distress, negligence, negligent infliction of affectional distress and spot damage.

An lawyer for Renderos did not remark to The Times. A typical for Love did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for comment.

The complaint, reviewed by The Times, centers connected an alleged incidental that occurred Aug. 9, 2024 astatine a Sheraton Hotel successful San Diego wherever Renderos was moving arsenic a front-desk agent. Renderos informed Love, 56, upon checking successful that the edifice could not grant his reservation, allegedly booked done a third-party app, due to the fact that the edifice was astatine afloat capacity. The “Couples Retreat” actor allegedly “became agitated and aggressive” erstwhile Renderos advised him to interaction the app to person a refund for the unfulfilled reservation, the suit said.

“Without provocation, [Love] forcefully ripped the recognition paper scholar disconnected the antagonistic and hurled it astatine [Renderos],” the ailment alleges, “striking her connected the close broadside of her head.”

Renderos’ suit alleges that she suffered a concussion and a “visible bump down her close ear” arsenic a effect of the incident. She besides claims her glasses were breached that evening and that she continues to endure “great” intelligence and carnal “pain and suffering.” Additionally, Renderos’ ailment says she “incurred, and volition proceed to incur” expenses for her aesculapian care, including hospitalization and aboriginal treatment.

The suit said constabulary responded to the incident, took statements from some Renderos and Love and cited the second for battery. The San Diego Police Department did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for an incidental report. As of October, determination is an progressive warrant for Love’s arrest. He is wanted connected a felony complaint for battle with a deadly weapon, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office database.

A time aft the alleged incident, Love expressed his vexation with the third-party hotel-booking app. In an Instagram post, helium warned followers to enactment away from the app.

Renderos is seeking an unspecified magnitude successful damages and requests a proceedings by jury. A proceeding is acceptable for August.