Kanye West has been sued for allegedly sexually assaulting, gagging a mannequin throughout a 2010 music video shoot by mannequin Jenifer An, who was a contestant in ‘America’s Subsequent High Mannequin’. The shoot reportedly passed off round September 7, 2010, on the Chelsea Lodge in New York Metropolis. The mannequin alleged within the lawsuit that Kanye West had fashions, together with her, line up in a hallway and stated with reference to herm “Give me the Asian woman” which made her really feel uncomfortable, Web page Six reported.
The mannequin stated she was carrying solely lingerie at the moment and advised West that she wasn’t carrying very a lot and to that West stated, “That is why I selected you”. Then they went to a sofa that had a digital camera dealing with to.
On digital camera, Kanye West started to choke her with one hand after which “wrapped his different hand round her neck and continued to strangle her with each arms”. West smothered her face with each of his arms smearing her make-up. “He then rammed a number of fingers down her throat, constantly moved them out and in, and gagged her … to emulate pressured oral intercourse,” the grievance additional alleged.
“That is artwork. That is f**king artwork. I’m like Picasso,” Kanye West stated as he pressured himself on the mannequin. When she allegedly tried to maneuver her tongue away from West’s “gyrating hand,” per the go well with, she “began to panic, and appeared across the set, hoping to see anybody who may intervene.”
Kanye West didn’t react to the lawsuit but.
The mannequin, via the lawsuit, seeks an unspecified quantity of damages, and per the grievance, believed West violated New York federal legal guidelines for strangulation within the second diploma, sexually motivated felony and assault. She stated she coped with trauma, felt extraordinarily humiliated, degraded, victimized, embarrassed and emotionally distressed.
