MIAMI (Court TV) — Days after a jury found NFL star Tyreek Hill liable for half a million dollars for two separate attacks on his estranged wife, Court TV obtained video from inside the couple’s home showing those fights.
Tyreek Hill is seen picking up his daughter on a still frame from video. (Court TV)
Lakeeta Vaccaro, who married Hill in 2023, had filed a lawsuit against her ex as part of their divorce, alleging that the wide receiver had assaulted her on a number of occasions. Vaccaro testified during the weeklong trial that shortly after they were married, Hill began aggressively asking her to sign a postnuptial agreement. When she hesitated, Vaccaro said, Hill attacked her repeatedly. She testified that Hill had tackled her, pushed her through a wall, twisted her breasts and scratched her body while trying to forcibly remove her jewelry.
Hill, who won a Super Bowl as a wide receiver with the Kansas City Chiefs before joining the Miami Dolphins, testified that he never laid a finger on his wife. “I would never stand over my wife,” he said. “I would never harm my wife in any way. That’s not my role.”
Evidence shown to the jury included a series of videos captured by a camera mounted over the couple’s daughter’s crib. Those videos, shown to the jury, could not be recorded by the media and were not released to the public.
Court TV was able to review the videos, which show the couple’s infant asleep in bed as her parents argue around her. While most of the videos don’t show Hill or Vaccaro, their comments are clearly audible. Hill repeatedly insults his wife, calling her a “broke girl” and “a little a— girl who will never f— be successful in life.” Vaccaro can be heard screaming for help and repeatedly begging Hill not to pick up their daughter.
On multiple videos, Hill threatens to leave the home with their child, saying, “Me and my daughter gonna leave. And you can’t stop me either.” One video shows both parents’ arms battling over the crib — Hill appears to push Vaccaro to the ground at one point. That video is dated April 7 — one of the dates the jury found Hill did batter his wife.
The panel found Hill had committed battery on his wife on two separate occasions during their marriage and ordered him to pay $500,000 in compensatory damages. The jury did not find that he had assaulted his wife on several other occasions she had alleged, and did not find that he intentionally inflicted any emotional damage.
Hill remains a free agent this season; he described himself as a “gymnastics dad” on the witness stand.
