{"id":70046,"date":"2026-03-26T07:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/rams-star-puka-nacua-sued-over-alleged-antisemitic-remark-and-biting-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:55:18","slug":"rams-star-puka-nacua-sued-over-alleged-antisemitic-remark-and-biting-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/rams-star-puka-nacua-sued-over-alleged-antisemitic-remark-and-biting-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams star Puka Nacua sued over alleged antisemitic remark and biting incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Lawyer says witnesses clear player of wrongdoing<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Receiver was guilty only of \u2018horseplay\u2019, says lawyer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Star Los Angeles Rams receiver Puka Nacua has been sued by a woman who says he made an antisemitic statement and bit her on the shoulder on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p> The civil lawsuit was filed this week in Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/24\/puka-nacua-restraining-order-allegedy-biting-woman-made-antisemetic-remarks\/?adid=social-tw\">according to TMZ<\/a>. The suit also cites gender violence and negligence.<\/p>\n<p> Madison Atiabi and her attorney, Joseph Kar, claim Nacua said \u201cfuck all Jews\u201d during a New Year\u2019s Eve dinner in Los Angeles last year. Atiabi is Jewish and says she \u201cimmediately felt uncomfortable and emotionally distressed\u201d when the wide receiver made the comments. She says Nacua also bit her and left teeth marks on her shoulder later in the night. The lawsuit also alleges that Nacua bit Atiabi\u2019s friend on the thumb \u201cwith such force that her companion screamed in acute pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Nacua\u2019s attorney, Levi McCathern, has strongly denied Nacua made any antisemitic statements. He described the bites as \u201chorseplay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCathern said in a statement that \u201cmultiple sober witnesses have stated unequivocally that Puka never made the comments Ms Atiabi claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/26\/rams-star-puka-nacua-sued-over-alleged-antisemitic-remark-and-biting-incident\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer says witnesses clear player of wrongdoing Receiver was guilty only of \u2018horseplay\u2019, says lawyer Star Los Angeles Rams receiver Puka Nacua has been sued by a woman who says he made an antisemitic statement and bit her on the shoulder on New Year\u2019s Eve. The civil lawsuit was filed this week in Los Angeles, &#8230; <a title=\"Rams star Puka Nacua sued over alleged antisemitic remark and biting incident\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/rams-star-puka-nacua-sued-over-alleged-antisemitic-remark-and-biting-incident\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rams star Puka Nacua sued over alleged antisemitic remark and biting incident\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}