Disturbing new footage has surfaced showing former OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney hitting and berating her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, mere months before she allegedly stabbed him to death in their posh Miami condo. The video, brought to light by attorneys for Obumseli's family, captures the volatile nature of the couple's interactions.
During their trip to Aspen, Colorado in 2022, as seen in the video obtained via a public records request by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and reported by WSVN, Clenney can be heard accusing Obumseli of infidelity, punctuating her grievances with physical blows. "I was [expletive] sober for two weeks, two weeks! And now, why am I not sober? 'Cause of you!" Clenney is recorded shouting at him.
The violence, it seemed, was not isolated to this one event. Other recordings, such as a surveillance video from the couple's Miami building's elevator, displayed the tension that would boil over. Clenney is shown pushing, striking, and grabbing at Obumseli's hair in this earlier incident, which was highlighted by NBC Miami.
But the defense maintains that the stabbing, which occurred on April 3, 2022, was an act of self-defense. "She was in a struggle for her life. She defended herself; he came at her," said Frank Prieto, Clenney's attorney. On April 3, following the stabbing, police encounters show Clenney desperately told a 911 dispatcher, "My boyfriend is dying of a stab wound," but without the prompt she provided the necessary address.
Prosecutors, however, believe otherwise. They have painted the relationship between Clenney and Obumseli as "an extremely tempestuous and combative relationship," according to Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. This sentiment is echoed by Kim Wald, the attorney representing Obumseli's family. "What this [Aspen video] shows is, that this wasn't self-defense, it wasn't self-defense on the date of this video and it wasn't self-defense on the date of the murder," Wald told NBC6. He further emphasized the pattern of abuse against Christian, challenging the claim of self-defense raised by Clenney's defense.
As the case unfolds, Clenney, now 27, is currently in jail awaiting trial, facing a second-degree murder charge in connection to the killing of 27-year-old Obumseli. The pair had moved to South Florida from Texas in January 2022, but their fresh start rapidly unraveled into a deadly tragedy that is pulling at the threads of the conversation around domestic violence and the responsibility of those involved.
