{"id":191637,"date":"2021-11-09T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=191637"},"modified":"2021-11-09T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T22:29:44","slug":"ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumped by Raiders, Damon Arnette Countersues Aria Valet Over Spitting Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Troubled NFL cornerback Damon Arnette is countersuing a valet at the Aria Resort & Casino. The valet accused him of inflicting mental stress, anguish, pain and suffering last May through alleged aggressive behavior at the casino.<\/p>\n

\"Damon
Damon Arnette parted ways with the Las Vegas Raiders Monday after a TikTok video emerged allegedly showing him threatening to kill someone while brandishing weapons. (Image: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

News of Arnette\u2019s defensive legal maneuver came less than 24 hours after he was released by the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/a><\/p>\n

The team announced Monday it would part ways with the 2020 first-round draft pick. The move came in response to a viral video that appears to show Arnette making threats to kill an unseen person while wielding three firearms.<\/p>\n

\n

The player was sued by Aria valet Sonny Flores in June. Flores claims an intoxicated Arnette spit at him, repeatedly poked him in the chest, and verbally abused him when he refused to retrieve Arnette\u2019s car without a valet ticket, per company policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The suit also includes ten unnamed people in Arnette\u2019s entourage who allegedly joined in the abuse.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit seeks general damages and special damages in excess of $15,000, including attorney\u2019s fees and court costs.<\/p>\n

\u2018Designed to Extract Money\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the counterclaim filed in Clark County District Court, Arnette\u2019s lawyer, Richard Schonfeld, describes the lawsuit as \u201cfrivolous\u201d and designed purely to extract money from his client.<\/p>\n

Schonfeld says that three weeks before Flores sued, Arnette received a letter from the valet\u2019s lawyers demanding $500,000 not to go public about the incident.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit lacks merit and is frivolous, and the demand and the lawsuit were made to extract payment from Mr. Arnette as a result of the improper threat to go to law enforcement, Mr. Arnette\u2019s employer [the Raiders and the NFL], and the media,\u201d<\/strong> the counterclaim states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arnette is also being sued for his alleged involvement in an October 2020 hit-and-run crash in Henderson, Nev., close to the Raiders\u2019 training ground. The plaintiff claims she was injured in the crash.<\/p>\n

Arnette has denied the lawsuit\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n

Rugs III Crash <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Schonfeld\u2019s firm, Chesnoff &\u00a0Schonfeld, is also representing another disgraced former Raiders player.<\/p>\n

Henry Ruggs III<\/a> allegedly crashed his Corvette into another vehicle in the early hours of November 3, killing a 23-year-old woman, Tina Tintor, and her dog. His blood-alcohol content was twice the legal limit at the time, and he was driving at 156 miles per hour, according to law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n

Ruggs III has been charged with multiple felonies and faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a press conference Monday, Raiders general manager Mike Mayock\u00a0was asked whether there were concerns about young athletes, like Ruggs III and Arnette, coming straight from college to live and work in a party town like Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan a country kid live in a big city or vice versa? … We do have to be aware of Vegas,\u201d he said. \u201cBut my thing is this \u2013 in just about any mid- to big-sized city in the country, if you want to find trouble, you can find it. And our job is to find the kids that will get past that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Troubled NFL cornerback Damon Arnette is countersuing a valet at the Aria Resort & Casino. The valet accused him of inflicting mental stress, anguish, pain and suffering last May through alleged aggressive behavior at the casino. News of Arnette\u2019s defensive legal maneuver came less than 24 hours after he was released by the Las Vegas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":191638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEx-Raiders Damon Arnette Countersues Aria Valet Over Spitting Claim<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette countersues Aria Resort & Casino valet who accused him of spitting and abusing him.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-Raiders Damon Arnette Countersues Aria Valet Over Spitting Claim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette countersues Aria Resort & Casino valet who accused him of spitting and abusing him.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-09T18:12:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-09T22:29:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/damo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casinoorgphilc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/\",\"name\":\"Ex-Raiders Damon Arnette Countersues Aria Valet Over Spitting Claim\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/damo.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-09T18:12:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-09T22:29:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\"},\"description\":\"Former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette countersues Aria Resort & Casino valet who accused him of spitting and abusing him.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/damo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/damo.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675,\"caption\":\"Damon Arnette parted ways with the Las Vegas Raiders Monday after a TikTok video emerged allegedly showing him threatening someone and brandishing weapons. (Image: Getty)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sports Betting\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/sportsbetting\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Sports\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/sportsbetting\/sports\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Dumped by Raiders, Damon Arnette Countersues Aria Valet Over Spitting Claim\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Casino.org\",\"description\":\"Latest Casino and Gaming News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\",\"name\":\"Philip Conneller\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"Philip Conneller\"},\"description\":\"In Philip Conneller\u2019s eight years with Casino.org, he has covered the gaming industry from Las Vegas to Macau and everything in between. He currently focuses his coverage on gaming law, white-collar crime, global money laundering, tribal gaming, politics, and regulation. Philip was the original features editor for poker\u2019s Bluff Magazine and editor for Bluff Europe, which he helped launch. His writing has also been featured in ESPN, Forbes, Time Out, The Sun, and The Daily Star, as well as iGaming Business, eGaming Review, and numerous other industry news and tech websites. His news stories for Casino.org\/news have been linked by The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, People Magazine, and Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, among many others. Philip once won $20,000 with 7-2 off-suit. He has been reprimanded for unwittingly playing Elton John\u2019s piano on two separate occasions on both sides of the Atlantic. He became a writer because he is a lousy pianist. Philip lives outside London with his wife and children, where he spends his time agonizing about Arsenal FC. Contact Philip at philip.conneller@casino.org.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/philip-conneller\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/philip-conneller-1495a48\/?originalSubdomain=uk\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/casinoorgphilc\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/phillip-conneller\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ex-Raiders Damon Arnette Countersues Aria Valet Over Spitting Claim","description":"Former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette countersues Aria Resort & Casino valet who accused him of spitting and abusing him.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ex-Raiders Damon Arnette Countersues Aria Valet Over Spitting Claim","og_description":"Former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette countersues Aria Resort & Casino valet who accused him of spitting and abusing him.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/","og_site_name":"Casino.org","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews","article_published_time":"2021-11-09T18:12:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-11-09T22:29:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/damo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Philip Conneller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@casinoorgphilc","twitter_site":"@Casino_Org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Philip Conneller","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/","name":"Ex-Raiders Damon Arnette Countersues Aria Valet Over Spitting Claim","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/damo.jpg","datePublished":"2021-11-09T18:12:29+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-09T22:29:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b"},"description":"Former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette countersues Aria Resort & Casino valet who accused him of spitting and abusing him.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/damo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/damo.jpg","width":1200,"height":675,"caption":"Damon Arnette parted ways with the Las Vegas Raiders Monday after a TikTok video emerged allegedly showing him threatening someone and brandishing weapons. (Image: Getty)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-raiders-damon-arnette-countersues-aria-valet-over-spitting-claim\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sports Betting","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/sportsbetting\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Sports","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/sportsbetting\/sports\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Dumped by Raiders, Damon Arnette Countersues Aria Valet Over Spitting Claim"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/","name":"Casino.org","description":"Latest Casino and Gaming News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b","name":"Philip Conneller","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png","caption":"Philip Conneller"},"description":"In Philip Conneller\u2019s eight years with Casino.org, he has covered the gaming industry from Las Vegas to Macau and everything in between. He currently focuses his coverage on gaming law, white-collar crime, global money laundering, tribal gaming, politics, and regulation. Philip was the original features editor for poker\u2019s Bluff Magazine and editor for Bluff Europe, which he helped launch. His writing has also been featured in ESPN, Forbes, Time Out, The Sun, and The Daily Star, as well as iGaming Business, eGaming Review, and numerous other industry news and tech websites. His news stories for Casino.org\/news have been linked by The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, People Magazine, and Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, among many others. Philip once won $20,000 with 7-2 off-suit. He has been reprimanded for unwittingly playing Elton John\u2019s piano on two separate occasions on both sides of the Atlantic. He became a writer because he is a lousy pianist. Philip lives outside London with his wife and children, where he spends his time agonizing about Arsenal FC. Contact Philip at philip.conneller@casino.org.","sameAs":["https:\/\/muckrack.com\/philip-conneller","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/philip-conneller-1495a48\/?originalSubdomain=uk","https:\/\/x.com\/casinoorgphilc"],"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/phillip-conneller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}