T.I. is facing a lawsuit filed by relatives of a deceased victim whose body was filmed in a 2009 episode of the rapper's reality television show.
The family of Joseph Williams claims that footage of Williams' body was featured on T.I.'s MTV show "Road to Redemption." The family says they did not give any consent to use the footage & that they 've suffered mental distress from the incident.
T.I's "Road to Redemption" focused on the Atlanta rapper's attempts to warn young people about crime. In the episode, T.I. visited the Haugabrooks Funeral Home in Atlanta with a young man & shows him a dead body. The mortician at Haugabrooks said that the young man was a hustler whose parents did not know how he died. The lawsuit claims T.I. & Haugabrooks of falsified this information.
The lawsuit is directed at T.I., MTV, Haugabrooks & others involved in the episode & television show. The family is looking for unspecified damages.
Source - Hip Hop Blog
