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Appearing in court after spending months in prison charged with murdering her boyfriend, OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney looks unrecognisable.
Once a bright blonde who donned bikinis and tiny dresses online, Clenney now appears with much darker hair and acne dotting her once perfectly airbrushed face, as she sits in a bright red prison jumpsuit with her lawyers sitting by her and holding her hands - held together in cuffs.
In a shocking update, the parents of the OnlyFans model, who is accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death, have been arrested. Courtney Clenney's parents, Kim and Deborah Clenney, are now in custody and awaiting extradition to South Florida to face charges.
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Clenney was known for her looks - her bright blonde hair, perfectly manicured nails, long eyelashes and airbrushed face - but her jail time has changed all that (AP)Clenney was brought to court as prosecutors in the case sought information about her parents' involvement from their family lawyer.
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Courtney was accused of killing her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, in 2022. She was later arrested at a rehab facility in Hawaii. The 26-year-old insists she acted in self-defence after enduring an abusive relationship.
Now, her parents are facing charges of tampering with evidence. Additionally, Courtney has been hit with a new charge of unauthorised computer access.
Courtney and her former partner Christian Obumseli, who she is accused of stabbing (Instagram)After Obumseli's sad passing, many of his belongings disappeared from his flat. Police examining the circumstances wanted to check Courtney Clenney's mobile phone and cloud account, as well as her parent's cloud accounts, according to the warrants revealed.
The police got a search warrant for these accounts. With a hand from Apple, they could see messages, including one group-chat between Courtney Clenney, her parents and her lawyers.
In this chat, they discussed cracking open Obumseli's laptop, even thinking about guessing his passwords. "Are there any PIN/passwords we can try before you see her tomorrow?" queried Kim Clenney in one message, show the released warrants.
The parents of Courtney Clenney have also been arrested in the case (Austin Police)
Kim and Deborah Clenney, the parents of an OnlyFans model are accused of tampering with the deceased's belongings (Austin Police)He later discovered that the PIN was numeric, not alphabetic. The next day, he excitedly penned, "Hell yeah! That PIN worked!" per the warrants.
At one point, one lawyer mentioned, "Kim, hold off on going through the computer, please. I don't want to turn you into a witness just yet if you find something useful." There was also talk of maybe sending the laptop by mail to the lawyers.
One attorney added: "When it comes to potential evidence, we always have to consider 'chain of custody' issues and don't necessarily want to take the risk that something gets 'lost' in the mail."
Videos of Clenney and her boyfriend screaming and arguing have been released to the public recently, as investigators reopened her case (Instagram)
How Courtney Clenney looked in her mugshot (Hawai‘i Police Department)Another lawyer said: "Also, as I'm sure you guessed by my prior text, we don't want you accessing files because the State Attorneys could request their own independent analysis of the hard drive and accuse you of creating or modifying files," in another message.
"That's why I want to put a quick pause on that. Obviously I know you would not do that but we want to maintain that credibility."
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The pair had a volatile relationship (@christianvstoby/Instagram)Kim Clenney replied, according to the warrant: "I had barely opened it and was starting to poke around, but we started a video call so I stopped. Never opened a file, so I didn't see anything."
Later, Kim Clenney messaged: "I'd also like for you to have the laptop soon, so you can see if there's anything of use to us on it," the records showed.
Finally, the laptop was given to the defence lawyers, but tampering with someone's computer without their permission is against Florida law.