Nick Gordon found liable for the wrongful death of Bobbi Kristina Brown

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Nick Gordon was found liable for the wrongful death of Bobbi Kristina Brown on Friday, after being a no-show at the hearing on the civil lawsuit filed against him by the estate, ET has confirmed.

In June 2015, Brown's conservator, Bedelia Hargrove, filed a $10 million wrongful death civil suit, alleging that Gordon physically abused and stole thousands of dollars from her. In an amendment to that suit, it is alleged that Gordon gave Brown a "toxic cocktail, rendering her unconscious and then put her face down in a tub of cold water causing her to suffer brain damage."

Brown was found face down in a bathtub in her Georgia home on Jan. 31, 2015. After spending nearly six months in a coma, she died in hospice care last July 26 at the age of 22.

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"Gordon did not appear. The judge struck his answer and entered default judgment against him," Craig Terrett, the attorney representing Bobbi Kristina's father, Bobby Brown, told ET on Friday. "The only issue now is damages, which will likely be tried before a jury possibly in November."

"It's been a long time. Bobbi Kristina has been dead for how long?" Bobbi Kristina's aunt, Leolah Brown, told Atlanta's NBC affiliate WXIA-TV outside of the court room on Friday. "It's been a long time, hasn't it? ... He should have been arrested. I'm angry because I want to see some justice."

Gordon's lawyers released a statement last August regarding the lawsuit filed against their client, claiming it is both "slanderous and meritless."

"Nick has been heartbroken and destroyed over the loss of his love and it's shameful that such baseless allegations have been presented publicly," the statement reads. "Nick has engaged civil counsel and intends to defend the lawsuit vigorously and expose it for what it is: a fictitious assault against the person who loved Krissy most."

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No criminal charges have been filed against Gordon.

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The Fulton County, Georgia, medical examiner listed Brown's official cause of death as pneumonia in March. Brown died from complications caused by her face being immersed in water, along with drug intoxication, the medical examiner said in a statement.

"The underlying cause of death is the condition which starts the downhill course of events leading to death and in this case is the immersion associated with drug intoxication," the statement read. "The pneumonia and encephalopathy [brain damage] are more immediate causes which resulted from the immersion and drug intoxication."

The toxicology report found marijuana, alcohol, "a cocaine-related substance," anti-anxiety medication, and morphine in her system.

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