Last month, Dez Bryant was sued by his former financial advisor Royce West over thousands of dollars in alleged damages the Dallas Cowboys wide receiver caused while living at West’s home in Texas for several years. Rather than simply disputing those claims, Bryant is firing back ten-fold.
According to court documents obtained by Ian Rapoport of NFL.com, Bryant has filed a countersuit against West claiming the Texas state senator stole money from Bryant and profited off the star athlete’s name without his knowledge. Bryant accuses West and his associate David Wells, another former member of Bryant’s inner circle, of using the company Dez Enterprises to secure marketing deals that Bryant never made money from and had no knowledge of.
“West would instruct endorsement companies and others to make payments for any endorsement agreements to Wells, not Bryant,” the suit claims. “Many of these payments stopped at Wells and/or West, but never reached Bryant.”
Bryant claims Wells “absconded” more than $200,000 that was owed to Dez from endorsements and says West was “deliberately silent” about such matters, intentionally keeping Bryant in the dark. He is seeking to recover the money that was allegedly stolen from him in addition to collecting damages.
Bryant is no stranger to financial problems, as he reportedly had an issue with unpaid taxes last year. There were also rumblings that his financial situation was not all that great before he signed a lucrative extension with the Cowboys.
