After Brutally Beating Woman Over Her Ex, Birdman, Keyshia Cole Must Pay Victim Tons Of $$

Posted On : December 28, 2017

ILOSM fam,’ we’ve all heard of the old school saying, “You can take the woman (or man) outta the hood, but you can’t take the hood outta the woman.” That woman in question this go ’round, would be none other than the R&B around-the-way-chick, Keyshia Cole.

Throwback pic of Keyshia Cole and her then alleged boyfriend, Birdman

Now, we all know that Keyshia’s got that ready-to-fight gene in her blood stream, because we’ve seen both her mother, Frankie, and her big sister, Neffe, display those same qualities on reality TV. But apparently, one woman must’ve missed those episodes, because on one fateful night in 2014, she had to reportedly learn the hard way…and that lesson just come back to kick Keyshia in the you know what…

Sabrina Mercadel, woman suing Keyshia for beating

Many of y’all may recall when Keyshia Cole made headlines after a woman named, Sabrina Mercadel- a then Cash Money Records employee- filed a police report against Cole, and was granted a restraining order to keep Keyshia 100 yards away from her. That was the result of an alleged fist fight -or shall I say, a beatdown- that Cole was said to have delivered to Mercadel. The reason for that, according to the victim, is because at that time, Keyshia was dating Birdman a.k.a. Toni Braxton’s new boo-thang, and flew clean off the rails when she found Sabrina was at Birdman’s Los Angeles condo at 5 a.m..

It was reported that Keyshia went straight ‘Mike Tyson’ on Sabrina, yelling “What are you doing with my man?!” and then proceeding to punch her in the face, claw her with her nails, and throw various objects at her. Sabrina also claimed in court docs, that after the fight, her neck and back were in severe pain and that Keyshia damaged her finger so badly, that it may no longer be usable.

Ultimately, Keyshia was arrested for the incident, then released on bail. Although neither Keyshia, nor Birman ever spoke publicly about the reported ‘Rumble In The Jungle’ beatdown, it was said that Birdman dropped Keyshia like a bad habit after that fiasco.

Fast forward to three years later and now here comes the worst part of it all for Ms. Cole…she just lost big time in a lawsuit Sabrina filed against her. See details below…

Dayumn!! Keyshia Must Pay HOW MUCH?!!


In 2014, Sabrina initially filed a $1 million lawsuit against Keyshia over the attack, but that must have fell through because she came back in 2017 and filed a $4 million ‘suit against her. Now though, it’s just been reported that Keyshia is ordered to pay Sabrina Mercadel a whopping six figure settlement- $106,635.00 to be exact! Here’s why:

Via TMZ: Keyshia Cole is gonna pay dearly for attacking a woman in Birdman’s L.A. condo. […] Sabrina says she lost the use of a finger as a result of the attack. […] The suit ended with a default judgment against Keyshia because she was a no-show in court. Sabrina was awarded $100,635 … that’s a lot of money, but nowhere near the $4 million Sabrina was after.

Keyshia, Keyshia, KEYSHIA!!! I’m willing to bet that she’ll think twice before morphing into Keyshia ‘Tyson’ next time.

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