Lawsuit towards Snoop Dogg revived after beforehand being dismissed

A lady who accused Snoop Dogg of sexual assault has revived the lawsuit towards the rapper, three months after the case was initially dismissed.

The Jane Doe accuser first filed the lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal courtroom on February 9, claiming that Snoop (actual identify Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.) and his affiliate Bishop Don “Magic” Juan (Donald Campbell) assaulted her after she attended the rapper’s live performance at Membership Warmth Extremely Lounge in Anaheim, California on Could 29, 2013.

In response, Snoop Dogg requested a federal choose to dismiss the swimsuit, claiming the allegations have been “implausible and false”.

Within the 17-page dismissal filed on February 24 and obtained by Rolling Stone, the rapper denied that he cornered an unidentified girl in a recording studio rest room almost 9 years in the past and compelled her right into a intercourse act.

“Nothing remotely resembling plaintiff’s story about defendant Calvin Broadus ever occurred. He vehemently denies ever participating in any intercourse act with the plaintiff or assaulting or battering her,” his legal professionals wrote in courtroom filings.

Requested by Rolling Stone whether or not the lady ever labored for Snoop, a spokesperson for the rapper claimed there have been no data of the lady’s employment. “[She] was by no means employed by Snoop Dogg or any of his firms and has furnished no proof to help her declare of employment by Snoop Dogg and/or his firms,” the consultant for Snoop stated.

The accuser later pulled her lawsuit “with out prejudice” after the rapper requested the courtroom to dismiss it for lacking a submitting deadline.

Now, the lady’s authorized crew have resubmitted the lawsuit in a California district courtroom. It as soon as once more incorporates the sexual assault and sexual battery accusations towards the rapper and his affiliate Bishop Don Magic Juan. It additionally now incorporates defamation claims that allege Snoop Dogg used social media to make threats towards Doe (by way of Rolling Stone).

Based on Rolling Stone, the lawsuit alleges that after a non-public mediation between the accuser and Snoop Dogg’s authorized groups, the rapper used Instagram to “threaten, intimidate, and coerce Plaintiff into not exercising her constitutional rights to interact in a mediation.”
The lawsuit quoted a now-deleted Instagram publish that was shared the identical day because the mediation session, the place Snoop Dogg wrote, “Gold digger season is right here watch out Nefews maintain ya guards up.”

The lawsuit acknowledged: “Defendant Snoop Dogg’s sample and apply of threats, retaliation, harassment, and intimidation unsurprisingly didn’t cease there.”
The lawsuit additionally claims that regardless of the alleged sufferer wanting anonymity, her identification was revealed by a spokesperson for the rapper after the preliminary discovering.

“By releasing Plaintiff’s identify, Defendant Snoop Dogg but once more demonstrated his sample and apply of scaring, intimidating, retaliating towards, and harassing victims of sexual harassment, assault, and battery, by successfully calling on his hundreds of thousands of followers to threaten, intimidate, and retaliate towards Plaintiff,” the lawsuit stated.

“The grievance refiled at this time towards Snoop Dogg by ‘Jane Doe’ and her legal professional is meritless,” a spokesperson for Snoop Dogg stated in an announcement to Rolling Stone. “It follows Jane Doe’s legal professional’s voluntarily dismissing only a few months in the past her earlier grievance on the alleged matter. He additionally dismissed an earlier grievance – that is the third strive.”

Snoop Dogg’s crew added: “The grievance refiled at this time towards Snoop Dogg by ‘Jane Doe’ and her legal professional is meritless. It follows Jane Doe’s legal professional’s voluntarily dismissing only a few months in the past her earlier grievance on the alleged matter. He additionally dismissed an earlier grievance – that is the third strive.

“As earlier than, this refiled grievance is riddled with and predicated upon falsehoods and inaccuracies. Furthermore, as Jane Doe and her legal professional know or ought to know, Jane Doe has by no means been Snoop Dogg’s worker. In March 2022, the plaintiff and her legal professional have been served with a movement to dismiss by authorized counsel for Snoop Dogg. That movement made clear to Jane Doe and her legal professional the false nature of Jane Doe’s allegations towards Snoop Dogg. Jane Doe’s legal professional then in April 2022 requested the courtroom to dismiss his shopper’s grievance. Snoop Dogg appears to be like ahead to proving the falsity of those allegations.”

For assist, recommendation or extra data concerning sexual harassment, assault and rape within the UK, go to the Rape Crisis charity website. Within the US, go to RAINN.

NME has additionally reached out to representatives of Donald Campbell for remark.