Influencer Gabbie Gonzalez Accused in Murder-for-Hire Plot to Kill Singer Jack Avery ... Her Father's Also Arrested
Update
12:21 PM PT -- Jack Avery beelined it to court Tuesday and filed for a temporary restraining order against Gabbie Gonzalez.
TikTok influencer Gabbie Gonzalez will be charged in an alleged conspiracy to kill the father of her daughter ... boy band singer Jack Avery, and TMZ has learned her father is also in custody for the alleged plot.
Law enforcement sources tell us Gonzalez will be arraigned Tuesday in L.A. County for conspiracy to commit murder. We've also learned her father, Francisco Gonzalez, was arrested Monday in Florida, and booked for the same crime.
According to the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept ... Gabbie was in a nasty custody battle with Jack over their 7-year-old daughter, Lavender, and Gabbie's father also got involved in the dispute.
One witness told cops ... Francisco had said it would be cheaper if Jack were dead.
Jack is a former member of the boy band Why Don't We.
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The singer posted a scorching Instagram message Monday aimed at President Donald Trump ... accusing him of destroying democracy and using taxpayer money to help January 6 defendants.
In the post, Maines wrote, "Our democracy is disappearing right before our eyes," before unleashing even harsher language -- calling Trump a "fugly slut" and referencing the Epstein files in a hashtag.
Kathie Lee Gifford Buy My Connecticut Estate For $100M!!!
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The TV legend listed her sprawling mansion in Greenwich for an eye-popping $100 Million.
Kathie Lee and her late husband, football great Frank Gifford, bought the property way back in 1994 ... and it's 13,163 square feet of pure luxury.
Hayden Panettiere 'Well-Respected' Oscar Winner Tricked Me Into Looking at His Balls!!!
Hayden Panettiere says an Oscar-winning actor and director showed her his testicles, without consent, when she was just a teenager.
The actress has opened up about a ton of stomach-churning stories in her new memoir "This Is Me: A Reckoning" about the abuse she suffered while coming of age in Hollywood ... and she's now relaying a tale about a party she attended when she was 19.
Panettiere says she was leaving a gathering -- having grown uncomfortable while chatting with a group of men near the end of the night -- when a "well-respected" Oscar winner approached her as she was putting on a coat and complained about the gum stuck to his pants.
Michelle Obama Don't Write Off Other Side as Bigots ...
Michelle Obama says the MAGA movement's not full of racist bigots ... it's formed by desperate, working-class people who needed something different.
The former First Lady of the United States appeared on the podcast "Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso" ... and the two discussed the massive right-wing political movement that rose to the top of American politics under President Donald Trump.
Obama says it's not as simple as labeling anyone who supports the movement a racist or to assume they don't care about the vulnerable in society ... arguing people who voted for President Barack Obama twice jumped over to Trump because the system simply wasn't working for them anymore.
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