Former Fugees rapper Pras may be a “Ghetto Superstar,” but he’s also a deadbeat dad who skipped a child-custody trial to hop a private jet to South America for the World Cup, his baby mama’s attorney said in a Manhattan court Thursday.
“Because he’s a celebrity, he doesn’t want to be here,” said Kenneth Sternberg, representing Pras’ ex-gal pal Angela Severiano.
The Grammy winner, whose full name is Pras Michel, tried to phone in his testimony from a coffee shop in Bogota, Colombia, but a judge stopped him.
“It’s not acceptable to call in from a cafe in Colombia,” Family Court Magistrate Karen Kolomechuk thundered.
“This is not a free-for-all.”
Kolomechuk deemed Michel “in default.”
Severiano, 38, is asking the court to increase Michel’s monthly child-support payout from around $3,000 to $7,000.
A singer-turned-consultant, she lives on the Upper East Side with their boy, Landon, 3.
Michel, 41, who wrote the hit 1998 song “Ghetto Superstar” after the Fugees broke up in 1997, is now a film producer.
His attorneys, Jaclyn Soroka and Daniel Rivlin, said he was away on business and had tried to return to the United States but could not leave Colombia because of passport problems.
Michel posted pics on Facebook of himself on a private jet on June 10 and wrote, “#Flying #private here we come #Brazil #worldcup #worldcup 2014.”
The parties return to court next month.