Los Angeles Influencer Summer Wheaton did not argue on Monday guilty of killing a man when she drove recklessly drunk after a stars -lined Independence Day party in Malibu.
Once increasing to social media star row with 100,000 Instagram followers, the 33-year-old's life took a sharp fall after being intoxicated on July 4 last year at an exclusive party in the luxury Nobu restaurant.
And in a tragic turn of events, her decision to get into the car that night led her to be accused of a collision with a car share car driven by 44-year-old Martin Okeke, who injured the husband and father of one deadly.
A passenger in Okeke's car was also injured but survived.
Wheaton, who stopped on Instagram for a while, was later accused of gross manslaughter of vehicles while she was intoxicated, driving under the influence of alcohol and causing a lot of physical injury.
On Monday she walked into the courtroom with a gray turtleneck under a gray frui with V-neck, gray pants and black six-inch heels.
She was lived at La Superior Court in Van Nys, where she said that her lawyer, Elon Berk, was not guilty of all charges against her.
Court Commissioner Sarah Ellenberg ordered Wheaton to appear during a provisional hearing on April 30, so that she could until then remain free on $ 230,000 bail.
Los Angeles Influencer Summer Wheaton walked into a completely gray outfit and six-inch heels on Monday to plead
The once increasing influencer was presented at La Superior Court in Van Nuys, where she said nothing like her lawyer, Elon Berk, not guilty of all accusations against her
Wheaton is accused of causing the fatal collision by getting behind the wheel while they are intoxicated after a Ritzy 4 July party
The Commissioner also gave the influencer a 48-hour deadline to register for the SCRAM alcohol monitoring program.
Scram (secure continuous alcohol monitor remotely) is a single bracelet testing on alcohol through the skin transpress to sampling every 30 minutes.
Berk objected that his client was subjected to Scram and told the court that Wheaton had no previous alcohol -related convictions or charges.
But Commissioner Ellenberg rejected him 'in the interest of public safety' because 'the charges against Wheaton are very serious'.
In addition to her alcohol ban, the Commissioner also warned Wheaton not to take drugs that are non-recipe.
Martin Okeke, 44, was killed when a car driven by Wheaton on July 4, 2024 collided with him on the Pacific Coast Highway
Wheaton, who describes himself online as a 'wellness lawyer', has been fired because he turns the tragedy into a spinning company.
Although she initially suspended her social media account, she has since gone to Instagram again to post a self-serving video in which she spoke about her 'hard' times in recent months.
During the clip, she haved $ 35 'on faith -based' template to life organizational planners and assured her followers that 'beautiful things can bloom out of despair'.
Court Commissioner Sarah Ellenberg ordered Wheaton to appear during a provisional hearing on April 30, so that until then she could remain free on $ 230,000 bail
The Commissioner also gave the influencer a 48-hour deadline to register for the Scram alcohol monitoring program, which means
She went to Instagram after she had taken a break from placing and used the tragedy as content for a brand agreement – even organizing a 'religious' template of $ 35.
Okeke leaves his wife Chinasa and their daughter. His family has submitted an unlawful death suit against her and Nobu
“Do you know that feeling when life feels like it falls apart, but somehow it is the start of something very beautiful?” She said about a video with her on walks and on the beach.
“I went through moments when I really didn't know how I thorn,” she gushes in the video that was subtitled “things are not always the way they seem.”
In the horrible stack, the police say that Okeke was killed when Wheaton's White Mercedes-fast with 81 MPH crossed in a limit of 45 MPH-Het Central Reserve and crossed the central reserve around 10.30 pm and in his Cadillac in the opposite direction on Pacific Coast Highway.
Hours had been on the Ritzy Red, White & Bootsy Party in Nobu hours, where celebrities such as Mike Tyson and Blake Griffin were guests, and Entertainment was provided by Jamie Foxx, Tyga and Wiz Khalifa.
The Okeke family has opened a GoFundMe page that has so far collected less than $ 9,000 of his goal of $ 50,000,
They have submitted an unlawful death case against her and Nobu, in which they claim that wheaton was 'seriously intoxicated and disabled' at the time of the crash.
The death of Okeke and the subsequent charges against Wheaton came in the middle of a continuous campaign of inhabitants of Malibu for lower speed limits and stricter safety regulations on the infamous Pacific Coast Highway after the death of four Pepperdine University Co-eds there in a crash of October 2023.
Sixty people died on PCH since 2010.
