Orioles Cancel Diplo’s Efficiency at Camden Yards Following Sexual Assault Allegations
Diplo’s forthcoming efficiency at Camden Yards, house of Main League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles, has been cancelled within the wake of recent sexual assault allegations in opposition to the famous person music producer.
Diplo’s on-field efficiency, a part of the Birdland Summer season Music Sequence, was slated to happen on July twenty fourth following Baltimore’s matchup in opposition to the Washington Nationals. The present has now been axed after the staff shared a press release on Twitter.
The Orioles’ social media assertion concerning the cancellation was transient, providing no specifics behind the choice to name off the upcoming present. Nevertheless, because the Baltimore Sun notes, the staff had been selling the live performance as just lately as Wednesday, July seventh, the identical day that new allegations in opposition to Diplo got here to mild.
As first reported by TMZ, paperwork filed by Diplo’s accuser described a harrowing encounter whereby the DJ allegedly coerced her into performing oral intercourse, an act which the lady believes he recorded with out her consent.
Diplo’s lawyer Bryan Freedman has denied the allegations, calling them “fully outrageous” and “meritless” in a press release. Freedman additionally steered that Diplo’s accuser, who has not but been named, is participating in a “shakedown.”