{"id":596,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/596","headline":"Jury finds Tyreek Hill liable on two battery counts, orders $500,000 payment","dek":"A Miami jury cleared the Dolphins receiver of seven other counts, including continuing domestic violence, in a civil trial brought by his estranged wife.","body":"A Florida jury found Tyreek Hill liable Tuesday night on two counts of battery in the civil trial brought by his estranged wife, Lakeeta Vaccaro, as part of their ongoing divorce. The same jury found him not liable on five other battery counts, one count of assault, one count of intentional infliction of emotional distress, and one count of continuing domestic violence.\n\nJurors awarded Vaccaro $500,000 in compensatory damages. They did not award any punitive damages.\n\nVaccaro testified that Hill physically and verbally abused her during their marriage, including an instance in which he tried to punch her in the stomach while she was pregnant with their daughter. The couple had an on-and-off relationship for years, briefly engaging in 2021 before marrying in 2023. Vaccaro said the relationship turned violent within months, as Hill pushed for her to sign a postnuptial agreement she objected to over a disputed clause.\n\nHill told jurors he did verbally abuse his wife, though he in turn accused her of stealing from him. The split verdict closes out a trial that aired years of allegations from a marriage that unraveled almost as quickly as it began.","published_at":"2026-10-14T04:49:16.110960+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Defector","publisher":"Defector","title":"Tyreek Hill Found Liable For Two Counts Of Battery","url":"https://defector.com/tyreek-hill-found-liable-for-two-counts-of-battery"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Jury orders NFL star Tyreek Hill to pay $500,000 for battery on ex-wife","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jury-orders-nfl-star-tyreek-011630928.html"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Tyreek Hill found liable on two of 10 counts related to domestic violence in civil trial verdict","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7688160/2026/10/13/tyreek-hill-civil-trial-verdict/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Tyreek Hill's estranged wife testifies about alleged abuse in Connecticut hotel","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tyreek-hills-estranged-wife-testifies-184115246.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Tyreek Hill found liable on 2 of 10 domestic violence counts in civil trial with estranged wife","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/tyreek-hill-found-liable-on-2-of-10-domestic-violence-counts-in-civil-trial-with-estranged-wife-015232754.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Tyreek Hill found liable on two counts of battery, jury awards estranged wife $500K","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tyreek-hill-found-liable-two-025815826.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}