Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual harassment.
Kanye West’s former personal and executive assistant, Lauren Pisciotta, has expanded her sexual assault lawsuit against the rapper, alleging that he drugged and sexually assaulted her. The original lawsuit outlined incidents of harassment by West that included unwanted sexual texts and gestures while talking to her on the phone. The amended complaint, filed last week, includes allegations that he “touched, groped, fondled, grabbed and penetrated” Pisciotta without her consent on multiple occasions, including once at a party hosted by Sean Diddy. Combs.
In the lawsuit, which was first reported by TMZ and viewed by Pitchfork, Pisciotta alleges that West assaulted her at a San Francisco hotel where she was gathering a team to work. donda. Pisciotta said West knocked on her door early one morning and asked to use her shower because the shower was broken. After undressing and showering, she alleges, West went into a separate room where she was sitting, threw his towel over her and pushed her onto the bed before choking her and “pushing her naked body and penis in.” [Pisciotta’s] face”. She says that after repeatedly saying, “I don’t want to do this,” West eventually apologized, gathered his clothes and left with a bodyguard waiting outside. Pisciotta claims he feared retaliation if he spoke out, despite the double-tap incidents at the office.
The lawsuit alleges that on an unspecified date, Pisciotta attended a studio session hosted by West and Diddy in Santa Monica, California. She claims West served drinks to the invitees and told them they had to drink it if they wanted to stay. After a few small sips, he says, he slipped into an “altered and severely weakened state,” losing control of his body and speech. She says she woke up with no memory of the night’s events, but West later told her they “bonded a little bit” that night. In that conversation, West said his ex-wife, who has not been named, made negative comments about Pisciotta via text and accused her and West of being “intimate” together. West, he claims, told his wife that the pair were “hooking up” but not that he had been “drugged and sexually assaulted.” Upon hearing this, West allegedly laughed and said that “women like to say they don’t remember.”
The lawsuit states that upon learning that she was “working for the man who sexually assaulted her,” she was “overcome with immense shame, discomfort, and utter disgust.” His job was eventually terminated before a chance encounter with West and his current wife, Bianca Sensori, at a Post Malone concert. She alleges that upon seeing Pisciotta, West grabbed her neck and aggressively pulled her toward his chest, saying, “I always knew what I would do to you if I ever told you again.” Then, she claims he forced his tongue into her ear while Sensory looked on.
Pisciotta says she was left with “severe anxiety, depression and debilitating PTSD,” requiring a “rigorous schedule” of therapy and medication. He sued West for exemplary and punitive damages related to the alleged assaults, as well as other damages related to the claims in the original lawsuit.
Pisciotta’s attorney, Mark Currenney, had no further comment when reached by Pitchfork.
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