An OnlyFans model accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend in 2022 has had a major charge against her dropped.
On Thursday, South Florida prosecutors dismissed the computer hacking charge against Courtney Clenney, 29, after a judge ruled that the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office had violated attorney-client privilege by confiscating text messages and emails between Clenney, her parents, and her attorneys, according to The Associated Press.
Clenney's parents had also been charged with hacking, but those charges have since been cleared.
The one-time OnlyFans model, who's been held in a Miami jail without bond since 2022, is still facing a second-degree murder charge.
Defense attorney Jude Faccidomo, representing the Clenneys in the hacking case, argued that the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office should step down from the murder case due to unlawful access to privileged communications regarding defense strategy.
"There is no ethical way for that office to stay on the homicide case knowing what they know and what they illegally garnered from breaching those messages," Faccidomo said.
Known as Courtney Tailor on Instagram and OnlyFans, Clenney is accused of murdering Christian Obumseli at their Miami apartment in April 2022.
Prosecutors allege the stabbing resulted from a "tempestuous and combative relationship" that began in November 2020.
While Clenney has acknowledged killing Obumseli, she maintains it was an act of self-defense.
Her attorney, Frank Prieto, previously described him as regularly abusive towards his client.
Clenney initially claimed Obumseli had pushed and threw her down to the floor, prompting her to grab a knife and throw it at him from about 10 feet away; however, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy determined that the wound could not have been caused by a knife thrown from that distance.
Clenney was arrested in Hawaii several days after the stabbing and is believed to have given Obumseli's computer to her parents sometime between the killing and her arrest.
