{"id":2326927,"date":"2026-03-13T19:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2326927"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:14:31","slug":"lil-nas-x-seeking-diversion-in-lapd-police-battery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lil-nas-x-seeking-diversion-in-lapd-police-battery-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X seeking diversion in LAPD police battery case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>Grammy winner Lil Nas X returned to a Los Angeles courthouse Thursday seeking a different route to the end of his police battery case. <\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old \u201cOld Town Road\u201d and \u201cIndustry Baby\u201d singer (real name Montero Hill) appeared in front of a Los Angeles County judge as his attorney,  Christy O\u2019Connor, expressed her intentions to file a motion for diversion, Rolling Stone <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.rollingstone.com\/lil-nas-x-appears-in-court-plans-to-seek-diversion-in-lapd-battery-case-i-cant-wait-to-be-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>. O\u2019Connor reportedly asked the judge to delay the musician\u2019s case so it could be transferred to an unspecified diversion program, which could keep her client from serving jail time. <\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation Friday. Lil Nas X is due back in court for another hearing April 6. <\/p>\n<p>Lil Nas X was hospitalized and arrested in August after he was seen <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2025-08-21\/lil-nas-x-arrested-hospitalized-possible-overdose-studio-city\">strolling <\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2025-08-21\/lil-nas-x-arrested-hospitalized-possible-overdose-studio-city\">in only his underwear and white boots <\/a>through Studio City. The singer received treatment at a nearby hospital for a possible overdose, but had also been accused of assaulting a police officer. He was charged with four felony counts \u2014 three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer \u2014 related to the incident. Police allege the singer assaulted the officers who were trying to take him into custody. At least three were injured, the L.A. County district attorney\u2019s office said in August.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Nas X, who pleaded not guilty to all counts last year, shared a message to fans upon his latest court appearance. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really love and I miss you and I appreciate your support so much,\u201d he told media outside the courthouse, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nancy__Dillon\/status\/2032139612706246686\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> shared by Rolling Stone\u2019s Nancy Dillon. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to be back hugging you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy winner Lil Nas X returned to a Los Angeles courthouse Thursday seeking a different route to the end of his police battery case. The 26-year-old \u201cOld Town Road\u201d and \u201cIndustry Baby\u201d singer (real name Montero Hill) appeared in front of a Los Angeles County judge as his attorney, Christy O\u2019Connor, expressed her intentions to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lil-Nas-X-seeking-diversion-in-LAPD-police-battery-case.com2Fc72F0b2F168cc89b459995520991285e.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326929,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326927\/revisions\/2326929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}