According to the plaintiff's sworn affidavit, Diallo told him at one point that she was homeless. The plaintiff's motion for summary judgment presents this as a fabricated claim of hardship, made in order to solicit additional financial support.
The bank records
The plaintiff's filings include Bank of America statements he says belonged to Diallo, showing that she was, in fact, making regular monthly rent payments during the period covered by the claim — payments documented for November, October, September, August, and July 2018. The filings identify the building as an upscale apartment property in downtown Houston, with monthly rent described in the plaintiff's motion as running as high as $12,000.
What the record shows
The contrast between the homelessness claim and the contemporaneous rent payments is offered in the plaintiff's filings as one of the more directly documentable examples in the case, since it rests on financial records rather than only his own account of conversations. As with the rest of this site, it comes from the plaintiff's affidavit and exhibits and was entered as uncontested in the judgment rather than tested at a contested trial — see the main article for that history.