An ex-assistant of Ye, the rapper previously referred to as Kanye West, has accused him of drugging and raping her whereas at a studio session in Santa Monica, California, co-hosted by Ye and Sean “Diddy” Combs, in accordance with disturbing new court docket paperwork reported by The New York Submit and The Day by day Mail.
Lauren Pisciotta, who filed a wrongful termination and sexual harassment lawsuit towards the rapper in June, mentioned Ye “sought” her and her former unnamed musician shopper out earlier than inviting them to the occasion, in accordance with a submitting in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom this previous week.
Pisciotta alleged that Ye handed her a beverage after telling folks on the occasion they needed to drink in the event that they wished to remain. After she took a couple of sips, she “immediately began to really feel disorientated … and started to slide into an altered and extremely impaired state,” in addition to felt “much less in charge of her physique and speech.”
The following day, she mentioned she couldn’t keep in mind the night time earlier than and felt “immense disgrace and embarrassment,” whereas her ex-client “was too traumatized and disturbed to discuss the night time,” in accordance with the paperwork.
The studio session is alleged to have occurred years earlier than Pisciotta labored for Ye in 2021 and 2022.
Pisciotta, who mentioned she couldn’t recall and wasn’t conscious of “any sort of sexual assault had occurred to her or her former shopper” on the time, alleged that Ye informed her previous to her 2022 firing that they “did sort of hook up slightly one time” on the studio and reminisced on it.
Ye was allegedly upset that his ex-wife Kim Kardashian commented on the rapper and Pisciotta. She claimed that Ye informed Kardashian the 2 “connected” and ignored the “true nature and severity of what he did to” her.
After Pisciotta knowledgeable Ye she couldn’t recall the night time on the studio, he allegedly laughed and mentioned that “ladies like to say they don’t keep in mind.”
The submitting arrives after embattled music mogul Combs pleaded not responsible on intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs final month. He’s been accused of throwing intercourse events he known as “freak-offs,” which included GBH, a date rape drug.
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Pisciotta, in her lawsuit towards Ye filed earlier this yr, accused him of sending unsolicited nudes to her and claimed he would masturbate whereas on the telephone together with her.
A consultant for Ye, in an announcement to The Washington Submit in June, criticized the “baseless allegations” towards him and wrote that Pisciotta “actively pursued him sexually to coerce employment and different materials advantages, then engaged in blackmail and extortion when her advances have been rejected.”
JHB has reached out to a consultant for Ye, who was not instantly accessible for remark.
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