Hip-hop producer Irv Gotti was sued final week for alleged sexual assault and battery in a state circuit court docket submitting in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
The lawsuit was first reported Tuesday by The Miami New Instances and claims the plaintiff, who stays nameless, first met the music mogul via a mutual good friend at a poker match in 2020. Gotti, whose actual title is Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr., allegedly went on to ask her to Saint Martin.
“After flying her to Saint Martin, Gotti coerced Plaintiff into having sex with him,” the 4-page submitting alleges. “Gotti specifically threatened Plaintiff that he would send her home if she did not comply … and due to his power and influences in the music world, she complied.”
The lawsuit claims Gotti “demanded” sexual acts from the plaintiff all through their alleged two-year relationship, saying he “often berated and scolded” her and, in January 2022, “forced her to perform oral sex on him in an elevator” on the 4 Seasons Resort Miami.
After related incidents in Atlanta, “the relationship ended,” in accordance with the go well with.
“As a result of this sexually abusive relationship, Plaintiff has suffered severe emotional and psychological harm for which she had to be committed to a psychiatric ward,” the lawsuit continued. “These injuries continue to affect Plaintiff to this day.”
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The lawsuit additionally accuses Gotti of intentional infliction of emotional misery and calls for “compensatory damages in an amount to be determined at trial,” as nicely for Gotti to pay the plaintiff “attorney’s fees and costs” ensuing from the authorized proceedings.
“She’s suffered a lot,” Adriana Alcalde, lawyer for the plaintiff and a former prosecutor within the Particular Victims Unit of the Broward County State Legal professional’s Workplace, advised Rolling Stone. “With the #MeToo movement, women feel a little more empowered to speak up and tell their truth.”
Gotti, who co-founded Homicide Inc. Information in 1998 and has delivered Billboard hits for rappers together with Ja-Rule and Jay-Z, denied any wrongdoing Thursday.
“The allegations represent an affront to women who have truly suffered abuse,” his consultant advised TMZ. “Mr. Gotti has been surrounded by strong women the entirety of his life — his mother, five sisters, and daughter. The top employees at his company are women.”
“Mr. Gotti’s relationship with women have [sic] been characterized by mutual respect, honesty, and empathy,” the assertion continued. “Mr. Gotti’s reputation has been placed at issue. He will address this baseless claim in the courts and seek total vindication.”
A trial date for Gotti, who was acquitted of money-laundering expenses in 2005, has but to be set.
Need assistance? Go to RAINN’s Nationwide Sexual Assault On-line Hotline or the Nationwide Sexual Violence Useful resource Middle’s web site.
