PORTER RANCH — Police arrested singer Ray J early Thursday on suspicion of making a criminal threat after a profane, live-streamed dispute at his Porter Ranch home with his ex-wife Princess Love over custody of their children, TMZ reported.
The 44-year-old R&B singer and actor, whose real name is Willie Norwood, was arrested at 4:08 a.m. Thursday by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Devonshire Division and booked at 6:38 a.m. into the LAPD’s Valley Jail in Van Nuys, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s inmate information site.
Bail was set at $50,000 and Norwood was released on bond at 11:11 a.m.
According to the live-stream, which was shown on TMZ’s website, Norwood claimed someone was trying to take his children and he was being threatened.
Ex-wife Princess Love Norwood, a 41-year-old actor and producer, was shown carrying a child and told Norwood she was taking the children. Norwood is shown with a silver handgun and appeared to be threatening to shoot others in the home.
Officers were called to the home and Norwood was taken into custody.
He posted a response on Instagram after his release Thursday morning.
“You were in my house, we’re having an argument … if you want to leave, leave,” he said.
Norwood said the children were asleep on his bed. He alleged the adults “were drunk,” and that “I’m going to defend my kids. I’m going to defend my space.”
Princess Love also posted a video on Instagram at about 2 p.m. Thursday.
“What I’m not about to do is let him deflect and make it about me, and make it seem like I was drunk and it was my fault because that was not the case,” she said.
“I went to his house with the kids because I wanted the kids to have a good Thanksgiving with their dad,” she said, adding that she had just moved into her new house and that Norwood had been gone for months without seeing or speaking to the children.
Norwood is the younger brother of singer and actress Brandy.
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