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On the afternoon of April 3, 2022, 27 year old cryptocurrency trader Christian "Toby" Obumseli was fatally stabbed by his 26 year old girlfriend, OnlyFans model and Instagram influencer Courtney Clenney, inside the couple's 22nd floor luxury apartment at One Paraíso in Miami's Edgewater neighborhood. The stabbing was initially treated by police as a possible case of self defense, but after months of investigation and public pressure from Obumseli's family, Clenney was arrested in Hawaii in August 2022 and charged with second degree murder. She has been held in custody in Miami without bond since her extradition to Florida later that month. Her trial has been delayed multiple times and is currently expected to begin in the summer of 2026.
Courtney Clenney, known online as Courtney Tailor, was a 26 year old model and influencer based in Miami at the time of the killing. She had built a substantial online following, boasting over 2 million Instagram followers and a lucrative OnlyFans account. Her parents Kim and Deborah Clenney lived in the Austin, Texas area.
Christian "Toby" Obumseli, 27, was a Nigerian American cryptocurrency trader. Family members would later describe him as a devoted brother, son, and cousin. Prior to his death, he had been in a two year relationship with Courtney Clenney.
Clenney and Obumseli reportedly began dating in November 2020. They lived together for a time in a penthouse at the Berkshire Riverview in South Austin, Texas, where downstairs neighbors would later tell FOX 7 Austin that their fights got so bad they routinely spilled over into other units, including one occasion in which a large tiger painting was thrown onto a downstairs 10th floor balcony during a violent dispute.
In January 2022, the couple relocated to South Florida, where they rented an apartment on the 22nd floor of the luxury One Paraíso condominium tower in Miami's Edgewater neighborhood for a reported $10,000 per month. Their relationship reportedly continued to be tempestuous, and building management would later say that neighbors and staff made at least six separate 911 calls during the roughly three months the couple lived in the building. According to prosecutors, building management had begun preparing to evict them at the time of the stabbing.
On the afternoon of April 3, 2022, following what witnesses reported was another loud argument, Courtney Clenney fatally stabbed Christian Obumseli inside the 22nd floor apartment. The medical examiner would later determine that Clenney had used a serrated kitchen knife to inflict a single wound roughly three and a half inches deep into Obumseli's chest, puncturing his subclavian artery.
Clenney immediately called 911 and claimed she had stabbed her boyfriend in self defense during an assault. Miami Police officers who responded to the scene took her into brief custody but did not initially arrest or charge her, opting to further investigate the incident. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle would later describe the couple's two year romance as "extremely tempestuous and combative" and characterize Obumseli as a victim of domestic violence.
In the months that followed, Miami-Dade prosecutors reviewed extensive surveillance footage, digital evidence, and witness statements, including a February 21, 2022 elevator surveillance video that showed Clenney aggressively attacking Obumseli in the same building. Obumseli's family also began publicly criticizing what they characterized as slow police work.
On August 10, 2022, Clenney was arrested by U.S. Marshals and Hawaii Police in Hilo, Hawaii, where she had been staying at a rehabilitation facility for substance abuse and post traumatic stress disorder. She was charged with second degree murder with a deadly weapon. She waived extradition on August 12, 2022 and was returned to Miami, where she pleaded not guilty on August 31, 2022 and was ordered held without bond. She has been detained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center ever since.
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Clenney's defense team, led by attorney Frank Prieto, has continued to argue that she was the victim in an abusive relationship, and that Obumseli's death was the result of a lawful use of force in self defense.
In January 2024, Kim and Deborah Clenney, Clenney's parents, were arrested in Travis County, Texas on Florida felony warrants of unauthorized access to a computer. Prosecutors alleged that after Kim Clenney had taken Obumseli's personal laptop from the crime scene apartment following its release by Miami police, Kim and Deborah worked with members of Courtney's legal team to guess Obumseli's password and access his files without authorization. Those charges were later dropped after a Florida judge ruled that investigators had improperly accessed messages between the Clenneys and their attorneys that were protected by attorney client privilege.
Obumseli's father Chio Obumseli, on behalf of the estate, has also filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Courtney Clenney, the One Paraíso Condominium Association, its property owners and management, and Allied Universal, the building's security contractor, arguing that the building and its security personnel had ignored multiple prior warnings about the couple's escalating violence.
Courtney Clenney's murder trial has been delayed multiple times since her August 2022 arrest, largely due to the sheer volume of digital evidence in the case and the extended legal fight over the Clenney family's alleged unauthorized access to Obumseli's laptop. Her trial was most recently scheduled for late April 2026, but was pushed back again to the summer of 2026. If convicted of second degree murder, she faces up to life in prison. She remains in custody in Miami-Dade County.
The One Paraíso is a 53 story luxury condominium tower designed by architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia of Arquitectonica and completed in 2017 in Miami's Edgewater neighborhood, on the west bank of Biscayne Bay just north of downtown Miami. The building is home to residential condominiums, and the ground floor is open only to residents and their invited guests. The unit Clenney and Obumseli shared has since been resold and remains a private residence.
The building lobby, common spaces, and residential floors are not open to the public. Please be respectful of the current residents of One Paraíso and remember that this location is home to more than 300 families who have no connection to the events of April 3, 2022. Stay on public sidewalks along Northeast 31st Street and Biscayne Boulevard at all times and do not attempt to enter the building or interact with residents or staff.
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