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A judge has denied a request by Remy Ma, accused of shooting an acquaintance in July over missing money, to travel to Europe for a five-country concert tour.
Ivan Fisher, lawyer for the 26-year-old rapper, told the judge his client, whose real name is Remy Smith, needs the tour to earn money. Since her arrest, Fisher said, Smith has been unable to get sufficient U.S. bookings, and a proposed recording contract has been put on hold.
Fisher told the judge the tour, which was to begin in Paris on Dec. 31, would net Smith up to $40,000, "which she very much needs."
Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Rena Uviller said Thursday she wouldn't allow Smith to leave the U.S. because of the serious charges facing her.
Smith is accused of shooting Makeda Barnes-Joseph twice in the abdomen on July 14, 2007, after leaving a party in Greenwich Village, claiming that $2,000 was missing from her purse and accusing Barnes-Joseph of taking it.
Barnes-Joseph was hospitalized for 16 days, prosecutors said.
Smith surrendered to police the day after the shooting.
The next month, the rapper was arrested on witness intimidation and gang assault charges related to a bar fight in the New York City borough of the Bronx. Prosecutors say that on Aug. 19 she caused several male friends to attack a witness' boyfriend. They say he suffered a black eye, shattered jaw and broken cheekbone.
Smith was the only person charged.
She has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including assault, coercion, gang assault and witness intimidation. She is free on $250,000 bail.
The judge adjourned the case until Jan. 22.
