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Stefon Diggs Sues Ex-Fling Mulan Hernandez For Assault and Extortion; She Fires Back With Assault Claims Of Her Own

BY Edwin Lamptey February 27, 2025 8:17 AM EDT

NFL star Stefon Diggs is taking his off-field drama to court, filing a bombshell lawsuit against model and reality TV personality Mulan Hernandez.

The Houston Texans wide receiver accuses his former casual flame of assault, property destruction, and an extortion scheme worth millions.

However, Hernandez isn’t backing down either—she’s calling his story a lie and claims he’s the one who assaulted her, backing it up with alleged medical receipts.

Diggs dropped the legal hammer this week, detailing a wild encounter on June 7, 2024. He alleges Hernandez showed up uninvited at his apartment around 6 a.m. after a night of partying and unleashed chaos.

Per the lawsuit, she “aggressively berated” him, stormed into his gaming room, and ignored his pleas for her to leave. When words didn’t work, Diggs says she turned to action—smashing his pricey gaming PC, trashing a $130,000 watch, and flushing his phone down the toilet.

As if that wasn’t enough, he claims she punched him in the chest repeatedly and dropped a chilling line: “You won’t be playing this year,” which he took as a direct threat to his NFL career. Fed up, Diggs says he left his own home when she refused to budge.

The drama didn’t end there. Diggs alleges that after he cut ties, Hernandez teamed up with her friend Brianna Mack—who was present during the blowout—to squeeze him for cash. He claims they’ve been trying to extort millions, prompting him to sue both women for trespassing, intentional infliction of emotional distress, aiding and abetting, and conspiracy, plus additional assault and conversion charges against Hernandez. He’s seeking damages between $250,000 and $1 million to put the saga to rest.

Hernandez, on the other hand, has a starkly different version. In a fiery Instagram response, she alleges Diggs assaulted her that same day, striking her from behind and leaving her with a concussion.

She claims his lawsuit is a “fabricated story” cooked up after mediation—requested by his legal team—fell apart.

Alongside her statement, she posted a medical document purportedly showing her concussion diagnosis, vowing, “I will not be intimidated nor silenced.” She’s framing it as a domestic violence issue, adding, “Everything that is done in the dark will come to the light.”

Diggs isn’t buying it. His lawsuit notes Hernandez’s hospital visit on June 7 was for nausea and vomiting, allegedly from slipping on a wet kitchen floor—not an assault. He says a second visit on June 14, claiming a punch to the head, came after they’d stopped all contact. Diggs insists he never laid a hand on her beyond self-defense, doubling down that her accusations are a cash grab orchestrated with Mack.

With both sides digging in, this he-said-she-said battle is heating up fast. Diggs, a four-time Pro Bowler sidelined by an ACL tear in 2024, is now a free agent facing more than contract talks. Meanwhile, Hernandez, known as Basketball Wives Orlando, is standing her ground.

Who’s telling the truth? The courts will decide—but for now, this clash is a messy mix of star power, serious allegations, and sky-high stakes.

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