Courtney Clenney Eyes 2028 Freedom After Transfer To Minimum-security Women's Prison
Courtney Clenney, who pleaded guilty to killing boyfriend Christian Obumseli with a kitchen knife in their Miami apartment, has been moved to a minimum-security women's prison with cosmetology classes and a running club. Florida records show her projected release date: July 20, 2028.
Case at a glance
- Courtney Clenney — former OnlyFans model, convicted
- Christian Obumseli — boyfriend, victim
Next: No further hearings appear in the available coverage. Clenney's case is resolved at the trial-court level: she pleaded guilty, was sentenced, and is now serving her term. The date to watch is her Florida Department of Corrections projected release, July 20, 2028, which could shift earlier or later depending on standard DOC credit adjustments and her disciplinary record while incarcerated.
The stabbing inside a Miami apartment
Christian "Toby" Obumseli, 27, was stabbed to death on April 3, 2022, inside the Miami high-rise apartment he shared with his girlfriend, Courtney Clenney, a former OnlyFans model who was 30 at the time of her sentencing, according to MARCA's report, which cited Court TV's coverage of the case.
One day before the killing, Clenney had told police she wanted to end the relationship, MARCA reported.
Clenney told investigators the stabbing was an accident — that she threw a kitchen knife at Obumseli from roughly three meters away as an act of self-defense, per MARCA's account of the case.
The Miami-Dade medical examiner reached a different conclusion. The wound found on Obumseli's shoulder did not match Clenney's account of a knife thrown from that distance, and investigators determined the scene had been staged, MARCA reported.
An arrest in Hawaii, then a plea deal
Four months after Obumseli's death, Clenney was arrested at a rehabilitation center in Hawaii and charged with second-degree murder, according to MARCA.
She had remained in jail since that arrest. Her defense team had prepared to present evidence at trial that Obumseli, not Clenney, had been the abusive partner during the relationship, MARCA reported.
Instead of going to trial, Clenney accepted a plea deal. She pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon, and the second-degree murder charge was dropped, MARCA reported, citing Court TV.
The plea agreement Clenney signed described the relationship as "extremely tempestuous and combative," and stated that both she and Obumseli had been involved in separate physical altercations during the relationship, according to MARCA's account of the document.
Obumseli's family disputes that mutual framing. They maintain it was Christian, not Clenney, who was actually being abused in the relationship, MARCA reported.
"extremely tempestuous and combative," — language from Courtney Clenney's signed plea agreement, as reported by MARCA
Six years, minus the time already served
A judge sentenced Clenney to six years in prison and five years of probation on the manslaughter charge after she entered her guilty plea, MARCA reported, citing Court TV and dating the sentencing to August 10.
Clenney had already spent roughly four years in jail awaiting trial since her arrest in Hawaii. That time counted against her sentence, leaving her with about two years left to serve when the six-year term was handed down — a detail confirmed independently by both MARCA and AOL.com, the latter citing Florida Department of Corrections records obtained by TMZ.
A transfer to a minimum-security women's prison
Florida Department of Corrections records obtained by TMZ, and reported by AOL.com, show Clenney has since been moved to Gadsden Correctional Facility, a privately operated women's prison in Quincy, Florida.
She is now classified as a minimum-security inmate. Gadsden was Florida's first privately owned prison built to house state inmates when it opened in 1995, according to AOL.com.
The facility's programming includes cosmetology and culinary arts courses, yoga, aerobics, and a 5K running club, AOL.com reported. The records cited in that report describe the programs the facility offers; they do not say which, if any, of them Clenney has personally enrolled in.
State records list her projected release date as July 20, 2028 — a little under two years from the time of the TMZ report — according to AOL.com.
Her account, the evidence, and the family left behind
Clenney's own version, as told to police, was that the stabbing happened by accident — she said she threw the knife at Obumseli from about three meters away as self-defense, MARCA reported.
The medical examiner's finding undercut that account. The wound on Obumseli's shoulder did not match a knife thrown from that distance, and investigators concluded the scene had been staged, according to MARCA's reporting on the medical examiner's conclusion.
In her signed plea agreement, the relationship between Clenney and Obumseli is described in writing as "extremely tempestuous and combative," with both partners accused of separate altercations, MARCA reported.
Obumseli's family rejects that mutual framing. They maintain he was the one being abused, not Clenney, according to MARCA.
What happens next
No further hearings appear in the available coverage. Clenney's case is resolved at the trial-court level: she pleaded guilty, was sentenced, and is now serving her term. The date to watch is her Florida Department of Corrections projected release, July 20, 2028, which could shift earlier or later depending on standard DOC credit adjustments and her disciplinary record while incarcerated.
How this plays in court
A medical examiner's finding that a wound doesn't match a suspect's account of self-defense is the kind of physical evidence prosecutors typically build toward a murder charge on — but it's also the kind of finding a defense can contest as a matter of interpretation once plea talks start, which narrows what a jury would actually have had to decide.
The defense's plan to present evidence that Obumseli was the abusive partner speaks to Florida's self-defense statutes; prosecutors weighing whether a jury might credit that narrative, even partially, often have reason to negotiate rather than risk an acquittal or a lesser verdict at trial.
The plea's language — describing the relationship as mutually "tempestuous and combative" — is a negotiated characterization, not a jury finding. It let both sides avoid a trial where competing accounts of who struck whom first would have been a live, contested question of fact.
Credit for time already served is routine in Florida sentencing. The six-year sentence and the roughly two years Clenney actually had left to serve aren't contradictory figures — they're arithmetic once nearly four years of pretrial detention is subtracted.