T.I. and Tiny sued by Air Drive veteran claiming they drugged and sexually assaulted her
T.I. and his spouse Tiny are being sued by an Air Drive veteran who claims the couple drugged and sexually assaulted her.
The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday (January 2) by a Jane Doe plaintiff, who says the alleged incident came about in 2005, when she was round 22-23 years previous.
Doe claims she was stationed in Los Angeles and attended a celebration at Coolio’s home, the place she met a person often known as Caviar who purportedly labored for the couple. She alleges he arrange a gathering along with her and the couple at a membership the next night time and says that when she acquired into the VIP part, Tiny – actual title Tameka Harris – handed her a drink that she believes was spiked.
In response to the swimsuit, which was seen by Rolling Stone, Doe says she was separated from her buddy and brought to a resort room with T.I., Tiny, and two different girls, who finally have been requested to depart. She claims T.I. – actual title Clifford Harris – made calls for of her with “specific element” like he was “reciting a script” earlier than Tiny stripped her bare and entered the bathe along with her.
By this time, Doe alleges she was “extraordinarily dizzy and lightheaded” and appeared “visibly drugged” when T.I. directed her to the mattress after which turned on a pornographic movie as Tiny climbed on her again and held her face down on her abdomen.
“Whereas Tiny was straddled on Plaintiff’s again and pinning her down, T.I. then proceeded to slip his toes into Plaintiff’s vagina,” the submitting reads. “Plaintiff informed him ‘No’ (and) tried to maneuver T.I. out of her and away from her. T.I. then mentioned he would go get a condom and Tiny continued to arouse herself by grinding on Plaintiff and massaging her bottom. The plaintiff grew more and more sicker and felt extraordinarily in poor health by the assault and battery she was experiencing.”
The girl alleges she then needed to go to the toilet to vomit and whereas she was there, T.I. mockingly mentioned, “Are you all proper? … Appears to be like such as you in final place.” She alleges she handed out and observed she was in “critical ache” the following morning when a safety guard demanded that she go away the room the place T.I. and Tiny purportedly have been sleeping.
“Forcing somebody, on this case by the use of medicine, into doing one thing of a sexual nature they don’t need to is sexual battery — rape,” the plaintiff’s lawyer Rodney Diggs informed Rolling Stone. “Even in spite of everything these years, the embarrassment, disgrace, melancholy — it nonetheless lingers. Silencing girls silences justice. Not will my shopper stay silent; we at the moment are looking for justice for her and everybody who has been equally violated.”
The girl filed a police report with the Los Angeles Police Division in April 2021. Nevertheless, a declination supplied by the Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s workplace a couple of months later mentioned that the case wouldn’t be thought-about because the statute of limitations, which is ten years, has expired.
Nevertheless, Doe was in a position to file her lawsuit beneath California’s Sexual Abuse and Cowl Up Accountability Act, which got here into impact on January 1, 2023, and provided a one-year “look-back” window to file lawsuits in instances of alleged sexual abuse with expired statues of limitations, as long as the allegations embrace an tried cover-up. (Some instances have been allowed to be filed on Tuesday because the legislation expired throughout a vacation weekend.)
T.I. and Tiny vehemently denied the allegations in an announcement to the outlet. “On the heels of positivity, negativity at all times rears its ugly head. This plaintiff has been threatening to file this lawsuit for THREE years. For THREE years, now we have emphatically and categorically denied these allegations,” they mentioned.
“For THREE years now we have maintained our innocence and refused to pay these extortionate calls for for issues we didn’t do. For THREE years, we’ve maintained the identical place whereas the claims on this story have modified time and time once more. Our place is evident. We’re harmless of those faux claims, we won’t be shaken down, and we stay up for our day in court docket.”
In Could 2021, the New York Times reported that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division had closed a unique case filed in opposition to T.I. and Tiny, alleging an incident of sexual assault and drugging in 2010, because the statute of limitations had expired.
A number of sexual abuse allegations have been made in opposition to T.I. and Tiny, starting in January 2021 when the couple’s former buddy Sabrina Peterson shared excerpts of conversations between her and several other different girls who alleged numerous situations of sexual abuse and coercion.
Following Peterson’s allegations, T.I. and Tiny mentioned that they “deny within the strongest doable phrases these baseless and unjustified allegations”.
In March, lawyer Tyrone A. Blackburn, who was on the time representing 11 individuals alleging sexual assault in opposition to T.I. and Tiny (together with Peterson and Jane Doe), mentioned that six different individuals had come ahead to him with allegations in opposition to them.
A lawyer for T.I. and Tiny, Steve Sadow, responded to Blackburn’s claims: “Respectfully, when Blackburn exposes his would-be accusers to the sunshine of day by revealing their names, I’ll have an actual remark. Hiding their identities makes it unattainable for me to take action.”
In Could, T.I. appeared to reference the allegations within the tune ‘What It’s Come To’. The next month, he launched a music video for the observe that depicted him and Tiny as figures on the centre of a grand scheme to take them down.