Russell Crowe will NOT face charges relating to bust-up with Azealia Banks after authorities complete investigation
The rapper had alleged the actor had choked her and used the n-word but authorities could find no evidence to back up her claims
RUSSELL Crowe will not face charges relating to an incident with rapper Azealia Banks.
The actor had been accused of spitting at the rapper, bear-hugging her to prevent her from attacking guests, but the District Attorney's office assessing the charges has opted not to press charges after investigating the matter.
The 25-year-old rapper claimed the 52-year-old actor choked and spat on her as he tried to get her out of his hotel suite in October but the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has now confirmed no further action will be taken against Russell.
A charge evaluation worksheet says a prosecutor felt that a jury would "find the physical escort out of the room was justified to prevent the imminent violence threatened by Banks."
In the run up to the incident, Azealia allegedly threatened to "stab" his guests in the throat and there was a lack of injuries visible on the rapper.
Meanwhile, Azealia previously called for Russell to offer her an apology for what happened.
She said: "[Russell] feels that he did nothing wrong, so I'm just like, OK, if you want to pay a bunch of litigators and a bunch of people to apologise to me, then I guess that's what you want to do. You could apologise to me for free now and make this all go away ... Even if I were being erratic, you should have enough sense to have me escorted out properly and keep your hands and your spit to yourself.
"Even if I were proven to be telling the truth in this situation, people have built their case up against me, and honestly I don't have the care or the time to try and fight millions ... like, I can't fight the whole world. I am tired of defending myself. You know, it's just really unfortunate.
People are going to think whatever they want to think about me. Y'all need to think about this damn music."
The report claims the actor's actions were justified 'to prevent the imminent violence threatened by Banks' according to Page Six, which also claims the alleged spitting incident was 'incidental to preventing more serious threatened violence'.
Azealia had also claimed that Crowe had used the n-word towards her, but the investigation found multiple eye-witnesses who disputed the claim.
The outspoken rapper took to Facebook to slam the decision by the authorities, writing: "Seriously heartbroken over this news of my case against Russell Crowe being thrown out. I paid a lawyer to defend me who went ghost two weeks ago, and now a DA is saying that he was justified in spitting on me."
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