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Courtney Clenney — the OnlyFans creator charged with killing her boyfriend Christian “Toby” Obumseli — drew attention this week not for testimony, but for her behavior before the legal arguments even began.
At a Miami-Dade Circuit Court motions hearing Friday (February 20), Clenney was seen blowing kisses toward the gallery, sticking out her tongue, and making other playful faces while seated at the defense table. The gestures occurred as attorneys argued over evidence and expert testimony ahead of her upcoming murder trial.
Clenney, 29, is charged with second-degree murder in Obumseli’s April 2022 stabbing death inside the Miami apartment they shared. Prosecutors allege his fatal wound was delivered with a downward plunge that struck a major artery. Obumseli, then 27, later died at a hospital.
She has pleaded not guilty, maintaining she acted in self-defense and threw the knife at Obumseli during a confrontation. Her defense team has portrayed her as a victim of domestic abuse and contends Obumseli was the aggressor. Prosecutors dispute that narrative, arguing the physical evidence and autopsy findings do not support a self-defense claim.
After the deadly stabbing, Clenney fled to Hawaii. She was arrested there in August 2022 and later extradited to Florida. She has remained in jail without bond since her return.
At last week’s hearing, Clenney’s defense sought to disqualify one of the prosecution’s expert witnesses, Dr. Michael Bannon, based on a decades-old dispute with the defense’s proposed expert, Dr. Lenore Walker. Judge Andrea Wolfson denied the defense motion, allowing Bannon to remain part of the case.
Prosecutors also asked the judge to allow jurors to hear recordings Obumseli made of Clenney without her knowledge. The defense argued that because the recordings were covert, they should be suppressed. Wolfson agreed to exclude most of those recordings, but ruled that those captured on shared spaces — including the apartment balcony and the building lobby — could be shown at trial because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in those locations.
Court documents and recent reporting show that Clenney’s trial is now scheduled to begin April 27, 2026, in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, with prosecutors expecting the proceedings to take less than two weeks.
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