An OnlyFans creator facing second-degree murder charges for stabbing her boyfriend to death in a Miami high-rise wants jurors to see text messages she says document months of abuse — and the case lays bare the wreckage of an economy the press won't stop celebrating.

Courtney Clenney, 30, was charged after Christian Obumseli died in their shared apartment in April 2022. Her trial starts next month. New court filings in Miami-Dade criminal court Tuesday seek to admit a string of text exchanges Clenney says prove she acted in self-defense when she threw a knife at Obumseli — she claims she didn't mean to kill him.

The motions outline at least nine alleged incidents of violence. In April 2021, Clenney texted Obumseli that he hit her "in my face as hard as you could." He replied that he was only trying to move her hand and "really didn't mean to," according to the filing. Clenney's lawyers say the exchange shows a pattern of Obumseli minimizing his own violence.

In August 2021, she texted that he was "punching me in the back" and "attacking me" after another confrontation. The filings say the messages were sent immediately after the violence and corroborate her account.

The documents also describe a September 2021 incident where Obumseli allegedly dislocated her shoulder for the "fourth time" during an argument about leaving a pool. "As she reached for the doorknob with her right hand, Obumseli grabbed her left wrist and violently pulled her backward, causing her shoulder to dislocate," the motion states.

In Dubai that same year, Clenney claims she told Obumseli not to smoke marijuana due to strict UAE laws. He got upset, and when she touched his arm to continue the discussion, "Obumseli immediately shoved Courtney with such force that she fell onto her side," according to the filing. She believed she had fractured her ribs but did not seek medical treatment while still in Dubai. Another incident in Austin, Texas in January 2022 left her right finger injured after he grabbed her arm, she claims.

The court documents state that "Obumseli repeatedly engaged in a pattern of physical violence, intimidation, threats, stalking, controlling behavior, coercive control, manipulation, and emotional abuse."

Clenney's legal team also plans to introduce medical records, photos, eyewitness testimony, and police and security reports documenting what they call an escalating pattern of abuse. TMZ reported that her attorneys recently claimed Obumseli had been wanted on an animal cruelty charge before his death.

The New York Post covered the filings straightforwardly but leaned on its usual tabloid framing — "social media vixen," "X-rated content creator" — while TMZ kept the focus on the legal strategy. Both outlets treated the case as true-crime spectacle. Neither touched the obvious question: what does it say about a culture that funnels young women into the online sex trade and calls it empowerment?

The text messages may or may not convince a jury. But the broken relationship they describe didn't happen in a vacuum — it happened in an economy that monetizes intimacy and discards the people inside it.