Usher doles out $1m to woman he infected with herpes

Singer, Usher has settled a million-dollar lawsuit after infecting his sex partner, a celebrity stylist with herpes. According to Radar Online, legal documents detailed how the eight-time Grammy winner, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, had rigorous unprotected sex without disclosing he was stricken with the rabid virus.

Court papers also showed that he was exposed to herpes in 2009 or 2010, around the same time that he filed from divorce from ex-wife Tameka Foster. In a disgusting revelation, a ‘greenish discharge’ once oozed from the performer’s penis, but otherwise he had no signs of the infection and was labeled an ‘asymptomatic carrier’ by doctors. After initially admitting concern to his partner, Usher, later convinced her that an STD examination result was negative, and they continued to engage in unprotected sex.

“Believing Usher’s statements that it had been nothing and cleared up, she continued her relationship,” a lawyer for the victim wrote in a legal complaint for damages. Their romps went without a hitch until three weeks after a passionate hookup when the victim woke up feeling very sick with a fever of 100 degrees, chills, headache, and aches and pains. She also developed lesions and blisters in her vagina and was so terrified was she that she sought immediate treatment where a doctor promptly diagnosed her with herpes.

According to the document, the singer whose pseudo name was ‘Papa Bear’ in messages to the victim, posted a check covering her medical bills totaling $2,754.40. Now married to Grace Miguel, he is accused of consciously and purposefully withholding his herpes diagnosis from the woman and continued to have unprotected sex.

California law requires a person who knows he or she is infected with genital herpes to warn partners of the diagnosis before sexual contact occurs and in this case, Usher didn’t. He has not responded since news of his settlement got out.