The undisclosed agreement is expected to be presented to a Miami-Dade County judge during an Aug. 10 hearing.
MIAMI — Social media model Courtney Clenney has reached a plea agreement in the second-degree murder case arising from the 2022 stabbing death of her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, her attorneys confirmed.
The terms of the agreement have not been made public and will not become final unless they are accepted by the court. Clenney’s attorneys said they expect to present the deal during an Aug. 10 plea hearing in Miami-Dade County. It remained unclear Sunday whether Clenney would plead to the existing murder charge or to a lesser offense, and no proposed sentence had been announced.
Clenney, 30, has been held in the Miami-Dade jail since August 2022. She previously pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and maintained that she acted in self-defense when she stabbed Obumseli, 27, during an argument inside their condominium in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood.
Miami police said the stabbing occurred April 3, 2022, at the One Paraiso condominium building on Northeast Seventh Avenue. Officers responding to an aggravated battery call found Obumseli with a stab wound to his torso. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Clenney acknowledged causing the injury but gave investigators an account that her lawyers have said supports self-defense. She told authorities that Obumseli pushed her and threw her to the floor before she grabbed a kitchen knife and threw it toward him from several feet away. Prosecutors have challenged that account and said Obumseli was unarmed.
The medical examiner found that Obumseli suffered a single wound to the chest that was about three inches deep, according to reports describing the investigation. Prosecutors charged Clenney four months after the death, following a review that included witness statements, surveillance recordings and evidence concerning the couple’s relationship.
At the time of the arrest, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle described the relationship as turbulent and combative. Prosecutors have argued that Clenney was the aggressor, while her defense attorneys have said she was an abused partner who feared for her safety.
Obumseli’s family has disputed the defense’s portrayal of the relationship and maintained that he was the victim of domestic violence. Larry Handfield, an attorney representing the family, told Local 10 News that Obumseli’s relatives had been closely involved in discussions about the proposed resolution and that the parties had agreed to a path forward.
The case had been moving toward trial before the plea agreement was announced. Lawyers had spent months disputing what evidence jurors could hear, including messages, videos and allegations about conflicts between Clenney and Obumseli before his death.
One widely reported surveillance video showed Clenney striking Obumseli during an earlier confrontation in an elevator. Her attorneys argued that the recording did not show the full history of the relationship and planned to present other evidence they said supported her self-defense claim. Prosecutors maintained that the available evidence did not justify the fatal stabbing.
Clenney, who also used the name Courtney Tailor online, had built a large audience on social media and the subscription platform OnlyFans before her arrest. The public attention surrounding her work and the release of videos from the investigation brought national scrutiny to the case, though her online career has no bearing on whether the court accepts the plea agreement.
Her attorneys said they would not discuss the agreement’s specific terms until they are placed on the court record. Until a judge accepts the deal and Clenney enters a plea, the second-degree murder charge remains pending and the agreement could still change.
The Aug. 10 hearing is expected to determine the charge to which Clenney will plead, whether the judge accepts the agreement and what sentencing process will follow. She remained in custody Sunday.
Author note: Last updated August 2, 2026.