Observe: This text incorporates references to alleged sexual assault and battery that some readers could discover disturbing.
Metro Boomin is being sued by a lady who claims that he raped her in 2016, ensuing within the lady’s undesirable, and, in the end, terminated, being pregnant. The girl, Vanessa LeMaistre, filed her criticism within the Superior Courtroom of Los Angeles County on Tuesday, October 29. Formally, she is suing the musician for battery, sexual battery, and three additional violations of California’s civil codes. Metro Boomin, whose authorized title is Leland Tyler Wayne, has denied the allegations via his lawyer.
In her lawsuit, obtained by Pitchfork, Vanessa LeMaistre says that she met Metro Boomin, in Las Vegas, Nevada, within the spring of 2016, not lengthy after the loss of life of her toddler son. The 2 “had a number of discussions about music and life typically,” main them to spend time collectively, over the following months, at Metro Boomin’s recording studio in California. “Ms. LeMaistre grew to really feel protected and cozy in Wayne’s presence and considered him as a good friend,” the criticism reads.
Throughout one studio go to, in September 2016, LeMaistre says “she took half a Xanax, which she used to assist get via troublesome days and numb the ache, and was given a shot of alcohol.” She says that, after consuming the alcohol, she misplaced consciousness, and, when she regained consciousness, “she awakened on a mattress with Wayne on prime of her.” She alleges that she “misplaced consciousness once more and awakened in some unspecified time in the future later to Wayne performing oral intercourse on her.” On account of her incapacitation, she couldn’t give consent for the intercourse acts, she contends.
A couple of weeks after the alleged assault, LeMaistre discovered that she was pregnant. “Given the latest lack of her son and the traumatic reason behind her being pregnant, Ms. LeMaistre knew that she couldn’t proceed the being pregnant and keep any semblance of her declining psychological well being,” the lawsuit reads. “Because of this, Ms. LeMaistre had an abortion in November 2016.”
In an announcement shared with Pitchfork, Metro Boomin’s lawyer, Lawrence C. Hinkle II, wrote, “It is a pure shakedown. These are false accusations. Mr. Wayne refused to pay her months in the past, and he refuses to pay her now. Mr. Wayne will defend himself in courtroom. He’ll file a declare for malicious prosecution as soon as he prevails.”
LeMaistre’s attorneys—Michael J. Willemin, Monica Hincken, Omar H. Bengali, and Robert J. Girard II—mentioned an announcement of their very own: “Metro Boomin has constructed a profitable profession with lyrics and social media that aren’t solely offensive but additionally explicitly define his intentions to hurt ladies. These are greater than mere phrases, and it’s time for him to be held accountable for his manipulative techniques and unacceptable habits.”
As well as, Michael J. Willemin mentioned, in response to Hinkle’s “shakedown” remark, “Making defamatory remarks will not be going to assist Metro Boomin’s trigger and we stay up for proving Ms. LeMaistre’s claims in courtroom and in the end earlier than a jury.”
If you happen to or somebody you realize has been affected by sexual assault, we encourage you to achieve out for help:
RAINN Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline
https://rainn.org
1 800 656 HOPE (4673)
Disaster Textual content Line
SMS: Textual content “HELLO” or “HOLA” to 741-741
