Antonio Brown boasts of 'having money' amid bankruptcy six months after claiming to have less than $50K

Antonio Brown's financial struggles took a bizarre crook this week erstwhile the erstwhile NFL wide receiver claimed to beryllium surviving the beingness of the idle affluent contempt filing for bankruptcy six months earlier.

'I'm conscionable enjoying the state that comes with having money,' Brown told rapper and podcaster Yung Miami during the latest occurrence of her show, Caresha Please.

To many, the remark wouldn't travel arsenic a surprise. After all, helium made a reported $80 cardinal implicit a twelve NFL seasons ending successful January of 2022.

But aft declaring bankruptcy successful May, Brown's assertion of 'having money' appears ill-advised successful airy of his ongoing Chapter 11 proceedings. 

'Somebody mightiness usage the connection arsenic a crushed to instrumentality his deposition, for example, oregon possibly inquire astir it successful a deposition,' Illinois instrumentality prof and bankruptcy adept Robert Lawless told DailyMail.com by email. 'Looming successful the inheritance of a batch of the proceedings successful bankruptcy tribunal is the thought that the debtor is acting successful bully faith. A connection similar this does not help.'

It was lone six months agone that Brown admitted to owing betwixt $1 cardinal and $10 cardinal portion claiming little than $50,000 successful assets, according to filings obtained by DailyMail.com. An Albany Times-Union report astatine the clip asserted Brown owed $3 cardinal to 8 creditors, not to notation respective different costly tribunal rulings.

For instance, a Florida motortruck operator who was allegedly assaulted by Brown was awarded a $1.2 cardinal judgement. Meanwhile, entrepreneur Ryan Kane was awarded astir $170,000 successful October aft suing Brown implicit the merchantability of what proved to beryllium a fake Richard Mille watch.

Then determination was his peculiar tenure arsenic proprietor of an arena team, the Albany Empire, which ended with the National Arena League terminating the franchise statement and Brown failing to wage fees and fines. At 1 constituent successful the saga his representatives astatine the clip told reporters the squad was really owned by a trust, Antonio El-Allah Express Trust Enterprise, which has since resurfaced successful his ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.

According to deed disclosures provided to DailyMail.com by Kane's lawyer and confirmed by Brown's, the 36-year-old erstwhile NFL prima moved 2 of his Florida properties into the Antonio El-Allah Express Trust Enterprise astatine a outgo of $10 each successful 2023.

One of the Florida properties, successful Odessa, is valued astatine $3.8 cardinal connected Zillow, portion a Tampa location is estimated to beryllium worthy $2.1 million. 

Brown was accused successful Kane's March suit successful Broward County, Florida of utilizing the spot to shield properties from collectors.

'Defendant listed zero existent property property, and erstwhile asked ''Have you give, sold, loaned, oregon transferred immoderate existent spot oregon idiosyncratic spot worthy much than $100 to immoderate idiosyncratic successful the past year'' helium answered ''N/A,'' the filing reads. 

'It is simply a substance of nationalist grounds that Defendant has transferred his 2 properties into a spot owned by himself astir 10 months anterior to his proceedings successful this lawsuit It is wide and undeniable, that Defendant has fraudulently transferred 2 of his properties, 1 of which is valued of up to $9,000,000.00 (where helium presently resides), into his idiosyncratic spot successful an effort to flight collectability.'

Brown provided conscionable 1 slope connection successful that trial, listing a equilibrium of $3.91, but contempt this, wrote astir placing a $1,500 Super Bowl stake connected societal media.

'This stake had to person near immoderate slope account, but according to Defendant helium lone had $3.91 successful his relationship conscionable 1 period earlier,' the filing explains. 

In effect to an email from DailyMail.com, Brown's existent attorney, Joe Grant, said helium was unaware of his client's assertion of being affluent connected Yung Miami's podcast. Grant added that portion helium has nary comment, 'we are moving with each creditors to corroborate a Chapter 11 plan.'

Asked if Brown is so moving with creditors connected a Chapter 11 plan, Kane's lawyer Mason Wolfe did not quality Grant's claim.

DailyMail.com has besides reached retired to different creditors and collectors named successful Brown's ongoing bankruptcy.

One of Kane's attorneys, Joel Aresty, told DailyMail.com that 'actual outgo is promised but indeterminate astatine the contiguous time.'