Mannequin sues Kanye West for sexual assault and strangulation on video set

Kanye West is being sued by a mannequin alleging he choked her and subjected her to “pornographic gagging” on the set of a La Roux music video in 2009.

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In a go well with filed Friday (November 22) in a New York federal court docket in New York, plaintiff Jenifer An alleges that West got here to the set of the video for Roux’s hit ‘In For The Kill’ at Manhattan’s Chelsea Lodge, on which she was a background actor, and staged “his personal manufacturing” with none resistance “in a fashion much like pornographic gagging/deep throat/BDSM fetishes.”

An alleges that West got here to the set, pointed to her and stated, “Give me the Asian woman.” She claims West was “towering over” her and “respiration closely” when he subsequently directed the digital camera crew to zoom on her face to seize the alleged assault.

“On digital camera, defendant West started to choke plaintiff with one hand. He then wrapped his different hand round her neck and continued to strangle her with each palms,” the lawsuit alleges. “He then rammed a number of fingers down her throat, repeatedly moved them out and in, and gagged her.”

An claims that West used his fingers “to emulate compelled oral intercourse” whereas allegedly screaming, “That is artwork. That is fucking artwork. I’m like Picasso.”

An alleged that no one on the set helped her. “Plaintiff struggled to breathe and felt as if she had quickly blacked out. When defendant West determined that he was completed with plaintiff, her face was lined in saliva and smeared make-up,” the go well with reads.

The mannequin names Common Music Group as a co-defendant within the lawsuit, claiming they organized West’s deliberate cameo within the video and later “failed to analyze” or take motion. She is in search of compensatory and punitive damages.

NME has approached West, Common Music Group and La Roux’s representatives for remark.

The go well with follows the information of one in all West’s ex-employees suing him over discrimination, a hostile work surroundings, retaliation, not paying wages, and wrongful termination.

Within the lawsuit, filed at Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom, Murphy Aficionado alleges that he was overtly antisemitic in entrance of his workers.

The lawsuit particulars allegations of West spouting “antisemitic tirades” round his workers, which was purportedly a “day by day prevalence”.

The go well with additionally makes allegations of lewd conduct, describing West strolling out of a enterprise assembly in a Beverly Hills lodge in November 2022 to have “loud” intercourse with spouse Bianca Censori within the room subsequent door.

West has not but responded to any of Aficionado’s allegations.

This isn’t the primary time West has been sued by one in all his ex-employees. In June, his ex-assistant Lauren Pisciotta sued him for sexual harassment and wrongful termination and alleged in an expanded lawsuit final month that he had sexually assaulted to her.

On the time, West responded to the claims in an announcement made to Rolling Stone through his authorized consultant, calling Pisciotta’s accusations “baseless”, and asserting he deliberate to countersue.

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

In April, West was sued for racial discrimination by one in all his former safety guards. He was sued by one other member of workers lately for allegedly threatening to “cage” his Donda Academy college students. West has not responded to both lawsuit.

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.