INDIANAPOLIS – Texans veteran free agent wide receiver Stefon Diggs’ lawyer, Kent Schaffer, has filed a civil lawsuit on the NFL player’s behalf in Harris County court against a woman, Mia Jones, alleging assault and extortion.

Jones, known as Mulan Hernandez on social media and a former participant in the “Basketball Wives” series, is being sued for damages up to $1 million for assault, wrongful taking of property, trespassing, intentional infliction of emotional damage, aiding and abetting and conspiracy.

Jones allegedly attempted to extort Diggs, a Maryland native acquired in a trade from the Buffalo Bills last year, with her friend, Brianna ‘Brii” Mack backing up her version of events.

Jones allegedly punched the NFL player multiple times. And she allegedly damaged his watch, threw his cellular telephone in a toilet, destroyed his video game devices, made threats against his football career, including a threat of filing a lawsuit accusing him of assault last fall, according to the lawsuit.

Per the lawsuit, Diggs and Jones had a “casual relationship” and the woman frequently stayed at his apartment.

Jones allegedly on June 6, per the lawsuit, interrupted him playing video games and “began to aggressively berate” him while, he believed, her to be intoxicated due to alcohol and recreational drugs.

Jones allegedly slammed his video game console to the ground, damaged his $130,000 watch and punched Diggs several times and yelled “I’m not going anywhere” as Mack witnessed the incident.

“You won’t be playing this year,” Jones told Diggs, per the civil filing, and threatened him with a gun.

Diggs’ lawsuit emphasized he attempted to stop the confrontation and didn’t make physical threats toward the women.

She alleged that she slipped on a wet kitchen floor on June 7 and didn’t lose consciousness and received a negative CT scan.

Then, Jones allegedly attempted to interest Diggs in dinner plans and allegedly told a separate doctor on June 14 that she was punched in the back of the head with a closed fist.

Diggs’ lawsuit said that Jones claimed she was living with Diggs and was five weeks pregnant when the player allegedly assaulted her with Mack filing an affidavit supporting her story several months after the alleged assault occurred.

Diggs tore his anterior cruciate ligament in his knee against the Indianapolis Colts and finished the season on injured reserve.

Texans general manager Nick Caserio and coach DeMeco Ryans have both said this week that the door is open for Diggs to potentially return. A new contract would need to be negotiated, though.

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