US Court Orders Floyd Mayweather’s Daughter Yaya To Pay $50m Over 2020 Stabbing Incident

Iyanna “Yaya” Mayweather, daughter of retired American boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, has been ordered by a United States court to pay $50.1 million in damages to a woman she stabbed during an altercation in 2020.

According to legal documents obtained from the District Court of Harris County, Texas, on Monday, September 14, 2026, the presiding judge awarded the victim, Lapattra Lashai Jacobs, $40.1 million in compensatory damages and an additional $10 million in exemplary damages.

The compensatory payment covers physical pain, mental anguish, lost earnings, and permanent disfigurement, while the $10 million exemplary damages were imposed after the court found that Mayweather intentionally committed aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The court also instructed Mayweather to submit detailed financial statements, including bank account details, contractual agreements, and income streams, to facilitate the payment of the judgment sum.

The incident occurred on April 3, 2020, at the home of American rapper NBA YoungBoy, with whom both women share children.

A verbal argument escalated into violence when Mayweather retrieved two kitchen knives and stabbed Jacobs twice, causing injuries to her arm that required surgery.

Mayweather previously pleaded guilty to criminal charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in April 2022 before the conclusion of the civil proceedings.