Daddy Yankee filed a federal defamation lawsuit in Miami seeking at least $10 million in damages, accusing a businessman of making false and damaging public statements that linked the reggaeton icon to money laundering and an alleged financial network tied to Venezuela's late President Hugo Chávez.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, names businessman León Fernando Fiksman as the defendant. According to the complaint, Fiksman made the statements during an appearance on the Spanish-language podcast "Levántate y Cárdenas," where he allegedly accused the artist, whose legal name is Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez, of participating in money laundering activities and being connected to financial operations involving the Chávez government.
