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Kanye West has been accused of sexual assault in a civil lawsuit from a mannequin who claims he strangled her on the set of a music video.
The controversial rapper and producer, who modified his title to Ye in 2021, is alleged to have choked the lady with each arms and subjected her to “pornographic gagging” whereas she was taking pictures the video with one other artist.
The incident allegedly passed off at Manhattan’s Chelsea Resort in 2010, the criticism filed on Friday (22 November) stated, in accordance with US media.
The plaintiff stated she was wearing lingerie whereas working as a background actor on the set when West arrived, pointed to her and stated: “Give me the Asian woman.”
She alleged that West then ordered the digicam crew to zoom in on her face whereas he “towered over” her, “respiratory closely”, and staged his “personal manufacturing” with none resistance.
“On digicam, defendant West started to choke [the] plaintiff with one hand. He then wrapped his different hand round her neck and continued to strangle her with each arms,” the lawsuit alleged.
“He then rammed a number of fingers down her throat, repeatedly moved them out and in, and gagged her.”
The plaintiff alleged that West used his fingers to “emulate pressured oral intercourse” whereas screaming: “That is artwork. That is f***ing artwork. I’m like Picasso.”
She claimed that nobody got here to her help as she struggled to breathe and felt as if she had briefly blacked out.
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Naming report label Common Music Group as a co-defendant, the mannequin claimed that the report label organized the rapper’s cameo within the video however later “failed to research” or take motion over the incident.
She is searching for compensatory and punitive damages.
The Impartial has contacted West’s consultant and UMG for remark.
West was the topic of a separate lawsuit final week by a former Yeezy worker, who alleged that he was subjected to antisemitic tirades by West and compelled to sit down in a lodge suite whereas the “Well-known” rapper had loud intercourse in an adjoining room.
He has been named in a number of complaints within the wake of a sequence of antisemitic remarks shared from his social media accounts in 2022, which led to the tip of profitable partnerships with firms together with Adidas and Hole.
In June, he was sued by his former assistant Lauren Pisciotta, who claimed that West bombarded her with express messages and, in a single incident, masturbated in entrance of her.
Per the submitting reported by Rolling Stone, West allegedly wrote in a single textual content message: “See my downside is I be desirous to f*** however then after I f*** I need a woman to inform me how onerous they been f****ed whereas I’m f****ing them,” earlier than including: “Then I would like her to cheat on me.”
Pisciotta claimed that West would additionally name her underneath the guise of discussing work-related issues solely then to masturbate whereas on the cellphone together with her.
She is suing West for sexual harassment, breach of contract and wrongful termination, and can also be suing West and his affiliated Yeezy firms for fraud, unpaid wages, and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
In October, Piscotta accused West of drugging and sexually assaulting her at a celebration hosted by music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, in an amended lawsuit.
