"Garcia Jr. made a false police report of 'imprisonment' that Plaintiff was depriving Garcia Jr. of food, and alleged other false crimes against Plaintiff"
(Editor’s note: The first version of this story interpreted court documents as a civil suit between Sunny Garcia and his carer. It’s since been revealed Sunny’s father, who shares the same name, Vincent Garcia, although his daddy is Vincent Garcia Jr and Sunny is Vincent Garcia III, is the subject of the case. Hence the update.)
A civil suit in a Texas district court has shone a little light on the state of Sunny Garcia, four years on since the world champ and perennial Triple Crown winner was found unconscious in room 210 of the Best Western Hood in Oregon, almost dead, and apparently by his own hand.
The forty nine year old had posted this shortly before he was found.
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The lack of interest in Sunny beyond the initial outpouring of grief in 2019 indicated that no one was expecting any miracles.
Years on, whispers, rumours.
What was made public was Sunny, who is now fifty-three, was hospitalised, put into an induced coma, had kidney dialysis and lung surgery in California being being sent to a facility in Texas paid for by his wealthy Harvard-educated girlfriend Lori Park, one of the first software engineers at Google. Park was the Champ’s best hope of recovery, said our sources, as she has the “resolve and the resources” to, if not cure, at least improve Sunny’s condition. A good person to have in your corner.
A civil suit filed in a Texas court on July 10 by Park against Vincent Garcia Jr, Sunny’s daddy, for one million dollars, however, has shone light on a complicated and apparently fraught recovery.
In the statement of facts, Park is “saddened to initiate litigation related to these matters but is now forced to file to suit to preserve her legal rights.”
Among the allegations,
10. Garcia Jr. made a false police report of “imprisonment,” that Plaintiff was depriving Garcia Jr. of food, and alleged other false crimes against Plaintiff and Plaintiff’s house staff including that Plaintiff “assaulted” Garcia Jr. and that Plaintiff and Plaintiff’s house staff performed “illegal medical procedures” and falsified records.
11. Garcia Jr. false allegations caused multiple HPD patrol cars to come to Plaintiff’s home late at night, terrifying Plaintiff. Plaintiff was eventually completely exonerated of these allegations by video evidence and an HPD investigation.
12. Garcia Jr. made false statements and threats to Plaintiff’s staff and conspired with a police sergeant who ran her security with the intent of impairing her ability to run and properly staff the home.
13. Garcia J.r agreed with Plaintiff that he was simply a guest in her home but then covertly attempted to establish residency in the home so that he could not be removed for his dangerous conduct. Garcia Jr. subsequently refused to leave Park’s property and misrepresented in different instances to police officers and others that he was both a legal tenant of the property and a 50% owner of the property. Garcia J.r lied to police by alleging that he had no other place to go besides Park’s home even though he owns his own home in Hawaii and Plaintiff had notified Garcia Jr. that she had prepaid for a hotel room for Garcia Jr. Plaintiff had provided Garcia Jr. with the hotel reservation confirmation such that Garcia J.r could verify the reservation in his name.
14. Additionally, Garcia Jr. lied to neighbors and security guards about the nature of medical care being provided in the home. This defamation caused the homeowners’ association to attempt to evict Park from the home during the Covid pandemic, forcing Plaintiff to retain legal counsel
and eventually being forced to purchase the property on short notice and with extreme financial cost
15. During this time, Defendant Garcia J.r assaulted Plaintiff by throwing a suitcase at Plaintiff, following Plaintiff to another room and throwing another suitcase across that room, and threatening to commit further violence against her. Plaintiff was forced to hire security to protect her in her own home because Garcia Jr. would not leave and was dangerous. Garcia Jr. had other violent outbursts and would talk of his past of “beating” and otherwise harming other people.
The Instagram account @freesunnygarcia2 claims Vince shared custody of Sunny with Parks but, well, yeah, see above.
More coming obviously.
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Why should they have all the fun. Share it around I say.
I think that’s the bigger story
Thank you for the clarification – all the allegations apparently concern Vincent Jr (the Father) not Vincent III (Sunny).
The original report did not make that clear, hence the confusion –
Sunny (Vincent III) is apparently comatose and has had no part in any of this –
Maybe Derek could send a real journalist out to Texas to find out what’s going on.
Soooo…it’s Sunny’s father who has been fighting with the girlfriend?
Which means…Sunny is still a vegetable (said in the nicest way possible, of course)?
Now you are talking, You do mean a frozen one aye?
I love pudding drinks.
Frozen margaritas, Frozen strawberry daiquiris, Frozen pina coladas.
Blender, Ice, spirits, sweet fruit, heaven!!!
This just flipped into batshit crazy mode
If sonny’s name is Vincent Garcia III he can’t also be Vincent Garcia Jr. These are two different people. Sounds like someone in sonny’s family was around sonny’s at parks place and lost their shit.
👏
If only there was a surf news website with surf journalists who could get to the bottom of this?
Super bizarre. But I think bc of medical/psyche/attempted suicide history he was probably placed in a Conservatorship. Like Brittany Spears, and having no control over finances, living arrangements, travel etc. I think the GF was declared Conservator. As such, she also would have been controlling management of medical treatment prescribed by his Doctor. I don’t believe Sunny was making up shit out of whole cloth regarding medical treatment. The GF was likely billing Sunny’s insurance for home care.
As time has gone by, Sunny’s medical/psyche might have improved a bit to the point where he was able to formulate frustration at being told what to do, what to eat, what meds to take and when to take a shit.
It’s interesting how she says she was forced to buy the house. There’s more to that story. No one is forced to buy property, unless she was doing something illegal while leasing the place, and the owner caught wind of it, was pissed about liability exposure and forced her to buy the property above market value cause she was acting shady.
Hopefully Sunny gets good counsel and Discovery should be a hoot.
With all the jibber jabber about what a cunt Ke11y was over shading ADS, most peeps don’t credit him for gifting Mark and Vincent lifetime achievement awards!
And we would be spelling his name Ke13y.
God bless the king.
Sunny-good
Girl-bad
V8 and Popov with a celery stick tucked in it and a shake of pepper on top. Bacon is extra.
Forgot tabasco
Yeah a Bloody Mary is the best plane drink. All the VitC offsets a hangover. Yes and tabasco is essential.
Last time I took prop plane from
Northern Minnesota to Minneapolis I drank a six pack in ten minutes right before I got on at 6am.
How many times did you need to go to the toilet?
Haha. Weather forecast was ominous. Don’t like flying in jets much less prop planes
That much beer in your bladder you musta spent most of the flight in the toilet.
Maybe she is forcing Sunny to write a book
Nice Misery reference!
Little man with big mouth threaten slaps at Pipeline,…long time.
Little man likes drugs.(big in Hawaii)
Little man od at rich girlfriends house on mainland.
Little man get slaps from haole girlfriend on mainland, and haoles surf Pipe without Little man.
SEE WHAT DRUGS DO!!? Real slaps!
Isn’t garcia jr Sunny’s dad
Half of the NFL has some sort of Jr., Sr., or numeral on their jerseys.
Which is ironic considering most of them don’t know who their fathers are…
They all come out of the woodworks once they hear Jr. had that first check deposited.
None better than Gardner Minshew II whose dad is not named Gardner Minshew.
Yes but Minshew Two rolls off the tongue quite nicely.
She definitely got him Fritzelled in the basement. Hope she is being gentle with him.
So….is it safe to pile on yet?
Maybe he doesn’t want to return to Hawaii after failed suicide.
Sunny filed a police report.
Now she’s trying to cover her ass cause she might have been gaming the system running an improperly licensed medical care facility out of her house.
Hang on, isn’t it the father who is the accused here? He’s the one known as Jr. isn’t he, according to Derek’s intro above.
So all this relates to pappy Sunny, not comatose Sunny. I think….
I see Derek posted an “Update” to clarify the matter.
Either way, burden is on her to prove her allegations. And I still don’t understand the “eventually being forced to purchase the property on short notice and with extreme financial cost” part of her allegations.