Courtney Clenney, the former OnlyFans and model who was inside their luxury Florida condominium, will appear in court next week. Court records show Clenney, 28, is scheduled to have a report hearing for her at 9:30 a.m.
on Aug. 13 at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building in Miami.
Report hearings are typically where a judge hears the status of the case from both the state and the defense. A trial or plea date could also be decided then. has contacted Clenney's defense lawyer Frank Prieto for comment.
Clenney is a former OnlyFans and Instagram model known online as Courtney Tailor. On April 3, 2022, she called 911 to report her boyfriend Christian "Toby" Obumsel, a 27-year-old investor, had been stabbed during an argument between them. Police body cam footage captured Clenney speaking to police, covered in Obumsel's blood.
Clenney admitted to police that she killed Obumsel but claimed it was self-defense. She alleged Obumsel had thrown her on the ground so she grabbed a knife and threw it at him from 10 feet away. The medical examiner ruled Obumsel's cause of death as a knife wound that punctured the subclavian artery in the right side of his chest.
It was determined his wound could not have been caused by a knife thrown from that distance. On August 9, 2022, Clenney was arrested on second-degree murder charges. She was in Hawaii at the time, recovering from substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the .
Clenney's lawyer repeatedly asserted that she stabbed Obumseli in self-defense. But his family claims Clenney received preferential treatment because she was a white woman and he was a Black man. According to her arrest warrant, the MPD and Miami-Dade State Attorney concluded that Clenney and Obumseli "were in a violent and toxic domestic relationship for over two years" which often escalated into the woman "throwing and/or using weapons on various occasions.
" "These incidents culminated on April 3, 2022, with the defendant acting without justification and causing the death of the victim by stabbing the victim, in an imminently dangerous act demonstrating a depraved mind without regard for human life," the warrant read. Surveillance video from the couple's apartment building that surfaced after Obumseli's death showed a violent that took place a little over a month before his stabbing. According to the Miami-Dade State Attorney, Clenney was arrested in Las Vegas for domestic battery on Obumseli in a hotel in July 2021.
previously complained that the arrest warrant "contains deceptive and incomplete statements," adding that "it is a shame that the State Attorney's Office is seeking to win this case in the court of public opinion by showing an irrelevant and likely inadmissible video of Courtney in an elevator getting physical with Obumseli." "The video does not depict the events leading up to what was captured in the elevator. Obumseli was the abuser, the worst kind of abuser," Prieto told in August 2022.
"He would manipulate and abuse Courtney in private when he thought nobody was around. Do not forget that the initial investigation from the City of Miami Police Department uncovered an independent witness who saw Obumseli hitting Courtney in the head while he thought he was in the privacy of Courtney's apartment," he added..
