Iyanna “Yaya” Mayweather, daughter of boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, has been ordered by a Texas judge to pay more than $50 million to a woman she stabbed in 2020 during a dispute involving rapper NBA YoungBoy. The judgment, signed in May, only became public this week after TMZ located the court filing.
What happened in the original 2020 stabbing?
The attack took place in April 2020 at a residence tied to rapper NBA YoungBoy, with whom Mayweather shares a child. Mayweather stabbed Lapattra Jacobs with two knives during a confrontation, leaving Jacobs hospitalized. Mayweather pleaded guilty to felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on the criminal side of the case and was sentenced to six years of probation in 2022.
How does the $50 million judgment break down?
The Harris County judge awarded Jacobs a total of $50,105,000: $40,105,000 in compensatory damages plus $10 million in exemplary (punitive) damages. The compensatory figure includes roughly $8 million for past medical expenses, pain, suffering, physical impairment, lost earning capacity, and disfigurement, plus another $32 million covering those same categories going forward, reflecting Jacobs’ claim of permanent loss of function in her arm from the attack. The court found Mayweather’s conduct involved “an extreme degree of risk” that justified the additional punitive award on top of compensatory damages.
Why is this only becoming news now, months after the ruling?
The judgment was signed by the court back in May 2026, but it didn’t draw public attention until TMZ surfaced the filing this week. Jacobs originally sued NBA YoungBoy as well, but those claims against the rapper didn’t proceed to trial, leaving Mayweather as the sole defendant on the civil judgment. It’s unclear at this stage whether Mayweather has the financial means to satisfy a $50 million judgment, or whether her legal team plans to appeal; none of the parties has issued a public statement on the ruling.
What a $50 million judgment is actually worth
The number is the headline, and it is also the least reliable part of the story. Civil judgments of this size are routinely uncollectable. A court can find that someone owes $50,105,000; it cannot create assets that do not exist. Collection means pursuing bank accounts, property, and future earnings, and a judgment against a defendant without a large estate frequently yields a fraction of its face value over many years, or nothing at all.
Yaya Mayweather’s father is one of the wealthiest athletes in history. That fact is doing enormous unspoken work in how this story is being read, and it should not. A parent’s fortune is not reachable to satisfy an adult child’s judgment. Unless her own assets are substantial, Lapattra Jacobs may have won a number rather than a payment.
The gap between the two verdicts is the real story
Set the outcomes side by side. Criminally, Mayweather pleaded guilty to felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and received six years of probation. No prison. Civilly, a court found her conduct involved an extreme degree of risk and assessed damages for permanent loss of function in Jacobs’ arm.
Both results came from the same stabbing. The criminal system, which is the one that can take away liberty, imposed the lighter consequence. The civil system, which can only move money, made the stronger statement about the harm. That inversion is common and rarely examined, and it raises a question worth sitting with: when a plea deal produces probation and a civil court later describes the same act as extreme, which verdict reflects what actually happened to the victim?
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