Kanye West’s ex-assistant alleges he sexually assaulted her in expanded lawsuit

Kanye West‘s ex-assistant has alleged he sexually assaulted her in a newly expanded lawsuit.

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In June, Lauren Pisciotta sued him for sexual harassment and wrongful termination, with court docket paperwork obtained by Web page Six claiming he created a hostile work setting by sending a number of inappropriate textual content messages throughout her employment. She additionally accused West of locking her in a room with him and masturbating subsequent to her, amongst different situations of alleged sexual harassment.

On the time, West responded to the claims in a press release made to Rolling Stone by way of his authorized consultant, calling Pisciotta’s accusations “baseless”, and asserting he deliberate to countersue.

“She was terminated for being unqualified, demanding unreasonable sums of cash (together with a $4 million annual wage) and quite a few documented incidents of her lascivious, unhinged conduct,” the assertion learn, additional claiming that Pisciotta supplied West intercourse on his birthday and despatched him “unsolicited nude pictures.”

Now, his former private assistant has amended her lawsuit so as to add a number of new claims, together with that she was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted by West at a studio session in California.

Within the up to date lawsuit (obtained by Rolling Stone), Pisciotta stated she and an unnamed former artist supervisor shopper have been invited to the studio session at an unspecified date. Disgraced rap mogul Diddy is alleged to have co-hosted the session, though he isn’t named as a celebration within the swimsuit and there are not any allegations of wrongdoing towards him.

It’s claimed that drinks have been served all through, with “an announcement that everyone needed to drink in the event that they wished to remain,” the swimsuit stated.

“Unbeknownst to Plaintiff, the drink she was served was laced with an unidentified drug,” it continued. “After just a few small sips of the beverage poured on the path of Kanye West a.ok.a. Ye by a studio assistant after which served to her by Kanye West a.ok.a. Ye, Plaintiff instantly began to really feel disoriented.

“As Plaintiff started to slide into an altered and closely impaired state, she felt much less in charge of her physique and speech and that’s the place Plaintiffs reminiscences of that night time escape her,” the swimsuit continued.

It was stated that the subsequent day, Pisciotta awoke “bodily ailing and confused”, and felt “immense disgrace and embarrassment for not having the ability to recall a single element of her night time after these preliminary sips of her drink” that have been served to her by West, the swimsuit alleges.

It was solely years later that Pisciotta stated she came upon that she had been allegedly sexually assaulted, after West revealed they did “hook up” on the studio session.

She then advised West that she had “no reminiscence or recollection of that night time” and “solely remembered the very starting of the night time after they sat down on a sofa in a room full of individuals, and took sips of the one drink he handed her,” the swimsuit claims, happening to state that West laughed and stated: “Girls like to say they don’t bear in mind.”

A rep for West didn’t instantly return a request for remark, per Rolling Stone.

Information of the amended swimsuit emerged solely days after West was sued by a former worker, who claimed that the rapper employed him to spy on the Kardashians, observe his spouse Bianca Censori and extra.

In keeping with a criticism filed in Los Angeles on Thursday (October 10) which was obtained by Web page Six, an nameless Michigan-based man recognized as John Doe claimed that the ‘Flashing Lights’ rapper employed him round December 2022 as a deputy marketing campaign director.

Doe went on to say that his position transitioned into director of intelligence, a job by which he allegedly was required to conduct “numerous investigations” on the likes of attorneys, those that have sued the rapper in addition to his household and family members comparable to his ex-wife and present spouse.

NME has reached out to West for a remark or a response.