Nick Gordon appears in Court after Arrest5 min read

Bobbi Kristina Brown’s ex boyfriend Nick Gordon appeared in court Sunday a day after he was arrested for alleged domestic violence battery against his girlfriend Laura Leal following a confrontation in Sanford, Florida.

Gordon had told police he never hit her and that he was the one who was “abused.” In court, the judge set his bail for $15,500, ordered him to wear a GPS monitor and to stay away from Leal. He is due back in court on August.

Gordon’s girlfriend went to the police station Saturday and reported that Gordon “unlawfully commit domestic battery by hitting and punching her in the face and the back of the head with a closed fist,” a police report states. Officers found him at a local club house near the couple’s home and arrested him on domestic battery and false imprisonment charges.

According to the report, Gordon and Leal got into a heated argument at home after watching the NBA playoff game at a sports bar.

An officer observed injuries on Leal’s arms and face and told her sister to drive her to the ER. The officer took statements from both women and Gordon was then arrested.

Gordon’s arrest comes several months after a judge found him legally responsible for the death of Brown, who died months after being found unconscious in a bath inside their Georgia home, after her estate filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit against him. He was ordered to pay more than $36 million to her family.

The $36 million included $15 million for present value of life, $13.8 million for pain and suffering and $1.37 million for assault and battery. The lawsuit had alleged Brown “died due to a violent altercation” with Gordon, “after which he placed her in a bathtub, unconscious, after he injected her with a toxic mixture.”

The daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston died in July 2015 at age 22 after being in a coma for months. She was found face down and unconscious in a bathtub in a Georgia home she shared with Gordon, whom she’d referred to as her “husband” on several occasions. Their relationship initially made headlines since Brown’s mother had helped raise Gordon and the two had grown up together.

He denied any wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime. Her estate later filed a $50 million wrongful death civil lawsuit against him.