"How my ex-girlfriend tried to extort $5m from me" – Aliko Dangote reveals

Nigerian billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote has narrated how his American ex-girlfriend, Autumn Spikes tried to extort $5 million from him.

Recall that the woman had taken to social media to share a replica of the courtroom doc and dragged the billionaire for providing her a meager quantity of $15,000 as “hush cash”.

Aliko Dangote, nevertheless used the pseudonym, John Doe, alias AD, standing because the ‘acronym’ for his identify.

He seeks $30,000 in damages towards Ms Spikes, who within the strategy of exposing their relationship, uncovered his butt on social media.

One of many courtroom paperwork filed by the plaintiff on January 22, is titled, ‘Grievance petition for declaratory judgment criticism for (about) extortion petition for injunctive aid’ in keeping with Premium Instances.

The doc accused Spikes of libel, defamation, cyberstalking and a breach of settlement ”to maintain their relationship non-public and off the social media”.

The doc additionally said that Mr Dangote’s wealth made him a goal for Ms. Spikes, who demanded “meritless claims of $5 million” within the nature of “palimony to which she just isn’t legally entitled”.

It additionally disclosed that Ms Spikes had requested monetary help from Dangote to startup her enterprise and he obliged on the grounds that it might be non-public.

The courtroom doc learn partially, “Autumn Spikes demanded from the plaintiff help as an entrepreneur in a start-up enterprise when there was no mortgage dedication, nor oral or written promise.

“The plaintiff as soon as introduced an oral willingness to supply entrepreneurial help to Autumn Spikes on the situation that it’s confidential and personal.”

Nevertheless, he began seeing social media posts and deliberate media speak reveals, which was supposed to show him and make his life depressing if he refuses to pay her the demanded sum of $5,000,000.

Mr. Aliko mentioned his “generosity towards Autumn Spikes, if any, has been breached by Autumn Spikes’ publicity and solicitations to media speak reveals if he fails to pay her meritless calls for.”

The billionaire famous that he had the fitting to cease being beneficiant to her and demand a refund of the funds he had given her to help her enterprise up to now.

He additionally alleged that Ms. Spikes continued to threaten to topic him to false publicity if fails to conform to her calls for.

The doc additional revealed that the “Defendant has threatened communications on social media, Fb, Instagram, and in any other case.

Dangote additionally needs the defendant to be restrained from demanding “cost in trade for non-disclosure of their relationship”.

In accordance with the attorneys, the plaintiff used pseudonyms like John Doe and AD to keep away from pointless media consideration and avert coercion to pay the demanded cash by Ms Spikes.