Puka Nacua‘s lawyer is speaking out about an alleged incident that took place on New Year’s Eve.
The 24-year-old Los Angeles Rams wide receiver was accused by a woman for allegedly biting her and making an antisemitic comment at a NYE gathering.
Now, the athlete’s attorney is hitting back at the claims, and calling them an attempt at a money grab.
Keep reading to find out more…
Puka‘s attorney Levi McCathern said on Tuesday (March 24) in response to the woman seeking a restraining order that the football player “denies these allegations in the strongest possible terms” and they “will be filing a defamation lawsuit and pursuing all available legal remedies in response to these false and damaging statements.”
“Let’s be clear about what this case is — and what it is not. This matter is not sexual in nature, nor does it involve any allegation of domestic violence. If it did, the filings would look very different. They do not. It also doesn’t involve any elements of antisemitism. A completely sober witness has stated unequivocally that Puka never made the comments Ms. Atiabi claims,” Levi said in a statement to TMZ. “In the months that followed, our office was contacted with demands for millions of dollars in exchange for not publicizing these allegations. That is not a legitimate legal claim – it is blackmail.”
“The timing of the claimant’s recent legal action – nearly three months after the alleged incident and just says after JSN‘s record breaking contract as a wide receiver – further underscores the complete lack of credibility behind these accusations,” the statement adds.
In the accuser, Madison Atiabi‘s filing, per New York Post, she says at the December 31, 2025 dinner that Puka was “extremely touchy with the girls and had said ‘F–k all the Jews’ in the course of his conversation when he was at the other side of the table.”
She says she is Jewish and “was immediately offended and emotionally distressed.” Further into the night, she says he “began behaving in a strange, erratic, and physically intrusive manner.
Puka is being accused of biting the thumb of Atiabi’s girlfriend and biting Atiabi “on her left shoulder, on the scapula, with such massive force to leave a complete circular impression of all of his teeth as marks on her skin.”
Just a couple weeks prior to this incident, Puka came under fire for an antisemitic touchdown celebration.
