Aug 03, 2015 · Dr. Sebi was born Alfredo Bowman in the village of Ilanga, Honduras on November 26th, 1933. Since this time, he has picked up the ancient art of using herbs to heal the human body of known diseases. ... The New York Attorney general at the time took him to court and sued him over these claims he thought to be false.
Apr 05, 2022 · Dr. Sebi, a healer, pathologist, herbalist, biochemist and naturalist dedicated his life and knowledge to find a cure that will help people preserve their health and fight serious diseases. ... he took on the Attorney General of New York in a Supreme Court trial for he was being sued for false advertisement and practice without a license. This ...
Aug 16, 2016 · In 2014, Bowman sued Dr. Sebi Inc., Dr. Sebi Products, Dr. Sebi URUA Health Club International, Dr. Sebi’s Office, Xave Bowman Chapman (a daughter who served as chief executive officer for Dr. Sebi’s Products for several years), and ten other individuals for “contractual fraud.”
In 1987 New York's Attorney General Robert Abrams arrested and charged Dr. Sebi with illegally practicing medicine without a license; Dr. Sebi was acquitted of the charge. Nick Cannon has now picked up where Nipsey's plans left off and has initiated the filming of a documentary about Dr. Sebi and his USHA Herbal Research Institute ...
After Jackson's brother Randy paid Bowman $10,000, Bowman sued Michael Jackson for related costs, claiming that the singer owed him $380,000, and seeking an additional $600,000 in lost revenue for having deferred other clients and various speaking engagements.
Alfredo Bowman and Dr. Sebi LLC v. Michael Jackson. In 2004, Bowman reportedly treated Michael Jackson prior to his being tried on counts of child abuse. Bowman claimed to have helped the singer overcome addiction to painkillers Demerol and morphine with his African Bio-Electric Cell Food Therapy.
After that, Bowman began his own healing practice in Honduras. He developed a treatment that he called the "African Bio-Electric Cell Food Therapy", and claimed that it could cure a wide range of diseases, including cancer and AIDS, as well as a variety of chronic conditions and mental illnesses.
Bowman was acquitted because jurors said the tape recorded by the agents failed to show that Bowman had made a medical diagnosis of their purported conditions.
On 28 May 2016, Bowman and his associate Pablo Medina Gamboa were arrested on charges of money laundering at the Juan Manuel Gálvez de Roatan Airport, after they were found to be carrying $37,000 in cash and had no explanation for it.
After that, Bowman began his own healing practice in Honduras.
Bowman was released pending a court hearing on 6 June 2016, but he was re-arrested by the Public Ministerio on money laundering charges. He was held for several weeks in a Honduran prison, while his family was attempting to obtain his release.
"Dr. Sebi"—real name Alfredo D. Bowman (1933-2016—has beenwidely promoted by himself and others as a self-taught healer who has cured thousands of people with serious diseases and has proved in court that his methods are effective. The Web site for "Dr. Sebi's Cell Foods" described him this way:
Several Web sites report that in 2004, Bowman spent six months with Michael Jackson (the singing star), treating him with African Bio-Electric Cell Food Therapy and supposedly helping him to overcome addiction to painkiller drugs. Later that year, however, Bowman and Dr. Sebi LLC sued Jackson for $380,000 in unpaid bills and $600,000 in supposedly lost revenues. The complaint stated that Bowman had provided "special herbal compounds" and trained cooks to prepare meals for Jackson [9.10]. Documents from the case are not posted online, but the docket indicates that the suit was dismissed in 2015 for lack of prosecution [11].
In the 1980s, Bowman directed the USHA Herbal Research Institute in Brooklyn, New York and advertised that he could cure AIDS. In 1987, he was charged with the crime of practicing medicine without a license. When the case came to trial, however, the jury found him "not guilty." The only third-party account I could find about the trial says that the jury voted in his favor because it was not persuaded that he was making medical diagnoses or prescribing medicinal substances [6]. There is more to the story, however. At a 1993 Congressional hearing, Shirley Stark, who headed the NYAG's Consumer Fraud Section, indicated that there was a successful civil case against his company. She stated:
In 1987, the New York State Attorney General charged Bowman with two counts of practicing medicine without a licenseafter he placed ads in local newspapers claiming to be able to cure AIDS. The Attorney General's Office sent undercover agents to his office to gain diagnoses and treatments for purported symptoms of disease. Bowman was acquitted because jurors said the tape recorded by the agents failed to show that Bowman had made a medical diagnosis of their …
Bowman was born in 1933 in Ilanga, Honduras. He first learned of herbal healing and related traditional practices from his grandmother; his grandfather was originally from Haiti. Bowman who was of African descent, identified himself as an "African in Honduras", not as an African Honduran.
Bowman became frustrated with Western medical practices in treating his own illnesses such as
Bowman identified as African, not an "African Honduran", but an African in Honduras. He was known to have been married twice and, at the time of his death, he had 17 living children.
In 2018, African-American rapper Nipsey Hussle stated he was planning on creating a documentary about Bowman's successful defenses at his criminal trials. Hussle was later murdered in 2019 by a known acquaintance. Law enforcement have found no link between Hussle's death and Bowman.
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• Williams, Brett, ed. (1991). The Politics of culture. p. 148. ISBN 9780874749311. Retrieved 9 August 2016.