T.I. and Tiny Harris Face Lawsuit Over Sexual Assault Allegations – Billboard

T.I. and his spouse Tiny Harris are dealing with a brand new civil lawsuit that claims they drugged and sexually assaulted a lady they met in a Los Angeles nightclub in 2005.

In a criticism filed Tuesday in Los Angeles court docket, legal professionals for a Jane Doe accuser say T.I. (Clifford Harris) and Tiny (Tameka Harris) gave her a spiked drink after she was launched to them within the VIP part of a membership, then introduced her again to their resort room the place they “forced her to get naked” and assaulted her.

“Plaintiff did not consent to any of the sexual assault or misconduct and did not have the capacity to consent after being drugged by defendants,” legal professionals for the alleged sufferer write within the lawsuit, which was obtained by Billboard.

Attorneys for accuser, who they are saying was in her early twenties and serving within the U.S. Air Force on the time, declare she was launched to the couple by an affiliate named “Caviar,” who she says she met the earlier evening on the home of the rapper Coolio. Midway by means of the alleged incident, after she allegedly drank a beverage supplied her by Tiny, she started to really feel “extremely dizzy and lightheaded” and later handed out.

The allegations share similarities to previously-reported accusations. In 2021, the New York Times reported a police investigation over an alleged 2005 incident by which “a military veteran” claimed the well-known couple had “raped her in a hotel room” after she had grow to be “incapacitated” whereas ingesting with them within the “VIP section” at a Los Angeles membership.

At the time, the couple strongly denied any wrongdoing, saying the accusations have been a part of “a sordid shakedown campaign.” Prosecutors later declined to carry expenses over the allegations, citing the expiration of a 10-year statute of limitations.

The new case is filed beneath California’s Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act, which created a four-year window by means of 2026 for alleged victims to carry instances that will in any other case be barred by the statute of limitations. The regulation is just like New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which just lately led to a wave of sexual abuse instances in that state earlier than the statute expired in November.

Representatives for the Harrises and their label, Grand Hustle Records, didn’t instantly return requests for touch upon the lawsuit’s allegations. The lawyer who represented the couple in the course of the earlier police investigation additionally did return a request for remark.

The new lawsuit in opposition to the Harrises comprises specific particulars of the alleged sexual assault.

After assembly T.I. and Tiny on the nightclub, the accuser’s legal professionals declare Tiny “handed plaintiff a drink” and “watched her take a drink.” A short while later, the trio allegedly returned to a close-by resort, the place Tiny “took off all of plaintiff’s clothing,” acquired undressed herself, and they have been joined by a nude T.I.

“Plaintiff was then directed to get in the shower and T.I. and Tiny entered the shower with her,” her legal professionals write. “Plaintiff was extremely shocked and uncomfortable.” After the bathe, the accuser claims she started to really feel “extremely dizzy and lightheaded” and was “visibly drugged” as T.I. informed her to get into mattress.

“Plaintiff could tell she was experiencing something serious and debilitating that was not a symptom of a typical drink or a few drinks,” her legal professionals say.

After T.I. allegedly compelled her to look at pornographic films, he then “demanded she begin rubbing oil on his back and naked body, while Tiny “proceeded to get on plaintiff’s back, while she was still naked, and grind back and forth” on high of her. Then, “while Tiny was straddled on plaintiff’s back and pinning her down,” the accuser claims that T.I. “proceeded to slide his toes into plaintiff’s vagina.”

“Plaintiff grew increasingly sicker and felt extremely ill by the assault and battery she was experiencing,” the Doe’s attorneys write. Eventually, she “forced herself up and went into the bathroom where she proceeded to vomit.” She later emerged from the lavatory “naked, dazed, sickened, and weak” and handed out on a sofa.

When she was awoken by a safety guard the subsequent morning, the accuser claims she “immediately noticed her vagina was in serious pain.” As she was crying, she says the safety guard then escorted her out of the room.

The lawsuit is the most recent in a latest flood of lawsuits alleging sexual assault and sexual harassment by males within the music trade. Over the previous yr, such instances have been filed in opposition to hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, Aerosmith star Steven Tyler, Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine and former Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, amongst many others.

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