In an emotional interview outside her Riverdale townhouse, Veronica Lighty blasted reports that her husband Chris killed himself over an argument with her.
“My husband was too smart of a man. He was a genius. No smart man is going to leave his children for fighting with his wife,” she told the Daily News in her first public comments since the founder and chief of Violator Management took his life Thursday morning.
“That makes absolutely no sense. We had a passionate relationship. We fought all the time,” she added.
Reports suggested Lighty — the longtime manager who worked with the likes of Mariah Carey, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Diddy and Ja Rule — owed $5 million to the IRS and was heartbroken over his wife filing for divorce.
“I had filed for divorce last year, but retracted it” two days before Father’s Day, she said. “That was my gift to him.”
She also noted that they had sold their Chelsea apartment for $5.6 million and moved to an equally luxurious Riverdale townhouse.
The Associated Press reported Friday that Lighty had used the proceeds from the sale of the Chelsea apartment to pay off most of the IRS debt. But the AP also said he still owed more than $330,000 in state and federal taxes.
