Lawsuit: Rapper Soulja Boy beat, sexually assaulted assistant
A girl who worked as a non-public assistant for rapper Soulja Boy alleges in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the artist sexually abused her, beat her and held her hostage.
The lady mentioned she started working for Soulja Boy, whose staunch name is DeAndre Cortez Potential, in California at the waste of 2018.
The lawsuit, which changed into filed in Los Angeles and identifies the assistant most appealing as Jane Doe, says the abuse started when Potential sent the girl an unsolicited dispute of his penis presently after she started working for him.
The pair did waste up in a consensual relationship, however by January of 2019, Potential started bodily abusing the girl, the suit mentioned.
And in February, Potential sexually assaulted the girl for the first time, the suit mentioned, adding that he “expressed feel sorry about” after and gave her $1,000. Later, “on a mountainous quantity of occasions, and most steadily twice within the an identical day, Defendant Potential would inappropriately touch Plaintiff’s body, forcefully pull her pants off, and raped her,” the suit mentioned.
Potential would most steadily radically change jealous when the girl got feedback on Instagram or got a phone name and would reply by throwing her to the flooring and kicking her within the rib or punching her, the lawsuit alleged.
“Over the route of this abusive relationship, Defendant Potential punched Plaintiff straight within the head on as a minimum ten separate occasions,” the suit mentioned.
Once, Potential followed an assault by announcing, “I comprise to peaceful comprise killed you,” per the suit. After verbal assaults, he would most steadily issue, “I didn’t mean it,” the suit added.
He additionally locked the girl in a room with out scorching water for 3 days after she tried to give up and leave, per the suit.
In August of final 365 days, “Potential attacked Plaintiff so stressful that she idea she changed into going to die” and when she regained consciousness start air his home, she ran.
When she returned to ranking her property a month later, “Potential refused to present Plaintiff her property support and as a replace ancient the replace to rape Plaintiff again,” the suit alleges.
The suit mentioned the girl changed into left with nothing because she changed into no longer paid the wages she changed into promised whereas employed by Potential for 18 months. She alleges she wasn’t paid the $500 a week promised to her by Potential for her tasks, which included cleansing, cooking, utilizing the musician around and facing lag back and forth itineraries.
“Potential’s therapy of our client, as an employee and as a one who deserves appreciate, has traumatized and filled her with agonize,” her attorney, Neama Rahmani, mentioned in a observation. “His abuse imprisoned her bodily, mentally and emotionally. When she mustered the braveness to wing, he impoverished her. His exploitation severely hampered our client’s ability to re-build herself within the build of job and in society. We narrate he must peaceful be held accountable.”
Potential previously served time in 2019 for violating probation stemming from weapons possession charges.
Final 365 days, an ex-lady friend sued Potential alleging assault and battery and fraudulent imprisonment. The case is pending.
Soulja Boy rose to reputation in 2007 when his debut single “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Sizzling 100.
Representatives for Potential did no longer straight away reply to requests for comment Friday, however a spokesperson told TMZ: “Soulja would never establish his fingers on a female. He would no longer beat a woman or establish his fingers on a woman … that is non-sense!!!”
