Rick Ross has another legal woe to worry about.
The rapper, who was arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges in June, is existence sued by a adult female who claims she was drugged and raped during Grammy Awards weekend.
The woman, identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, says she met a Ross acquaintance named Thaddeus "Black" James in 2013, and in Feb attended the Cannabis Cup, where Ross was performing, with James.
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The arrange alleges that James offered her a drink on the way back from the performance, and "turned away from Plaintiff and held the cup and bottle out of her view." Later on taking the drink, the lawsuit claims, the woman became "intensely dizzy and ill," blacking out shortly thereafter. According to the suit, filed in Superior Courtroom in Los Angeles, she regained consciousness and was led to Black'due south room at the W Hotel, where she again lost consciousness.
The adult female claims that, when she came to, her clothes were jostled and seemed to have been put on her torso by someone other than herself.
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According to the accommodate, the woman believes that she was drugged and raped by James. She went to the hospital 4 days later, and afterwards contacted law, the suit says.
While Ross is not implicated in the declared rape, he's being sued in role for negligent supervision and retention, because he "knew or in the exercise of due intendance, should have known" that James "had a propensity, character trait and practice of drugging and sexually battering females."
Ross' label Maybach Music Group and Warner, its old distributor, are as well named in the lawsuit.
Ross has not nonetheless responded to TheWrap's request for comment.
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Alleging sexual battery/rape, intentional infliction of emotional distress, fake imprisonment and other charges, the suit is seeking unspecified damages.
Pamela Chelin contributed to this study.
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Between Lindsay Lohan firing back at Play a joke on News, Mariah Carey allegedly short changing her domestic help, and Sly Stone winning millions after suing his ex-manager -- stars ofttimes plough to the courts to address their squabbles and strife.
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Lindsay Lohan filed accommodate against Fob News and Sean Hannity on Feb. 2, 2015, after a news contributor accused Lohan's mom of snorting cocaine with her troubled daughter. It didn't take long for Fox to fire back. "We will defend this case to the fullest," the network told TheWrap the next day.
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A former nanny for Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon filed a lawsuit on January. 28, 2015, alleging she was fired after showing the couple's kids likewise much affection and did not receive overtime pay despite working 100 hours per week.
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Legendary funk artist Sly Stone won $v 1000000 on Jan. 27, 2015, afterwards suing his one-time manager and amusement attorney for misappropriating royalties owed him for more than than 20 years.
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Onetime "Existent Housewives of Orange County" executive producers Patrick Moses and Kevin Kaufman filed a accommodate against Bravo in Nov. 2014, claiming they were deceitfully ousted from the show and bilked out of millions of dollars after helping to create the evidence and the franchise.
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Jessie Nizewitz, a contestant on VH1'southward "Dating Naked," filed conform in New York in Aug. 2014, seeking $10 million in damages for emotional distress, humiliation and embarrassment after the show allegedly failed to properly blur her genitals.
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Octavia Spencer was awarded $940,000 in Dec. 2014 after challenge a weight loss company, Sensa Products Inc., wrongfully fired her from an endorsement deal and still owed her coin.
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Former Tinder executive Whitney Wolfe filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her old company June 2014, alleging she was repeatedly called a "whore" by CMO Justin Mateen and was stripped of her co-founder championship simply for beingness a adult female.
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Former TMZ producer Jarrett Gaeta slapped his one-time employer with a lawsuit in June 2014, challenge he was wrongly terminated. Gaeta was let get after a subordinate accused him of "racist behavior," including defending blackface and sending pictures of watermelons to African-American employees.
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CNN America was sued in Aug. 2014 past a pair of plaintiffs who claim that correspondent Arwa Damon flake one of them and threatened both during a drunken atmospherics at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
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"Boardwalk Empire" extra Paz de la Huerta sued Lionsgate in Aug. 2014 challenge she was run over by an ambulance while filming "Nurse 3D." Lionsgate filed a motility to dismiss, which De La Huerta opposed on Jan. 23, 2015. Lionsgate then opposed her opposition on Jan. 30, 2015, in a seemingly neverending loop of opposing motions.
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Rapper Rakim Mayers, aka A$AP Rocky, was sued in ceremonious courtroom in June 2014 for allegedly assaulting a woman while making his way through a crowd during the 2013 Made in America Festival.
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Nicki Minaj's former hairstylist and wig designer filed a $30 one thousand thousand lawsuit confronting the rapper in 2014 for allegedly stealing his wig designs and costing him a potential reality evidence. A gauge later dismissed the instance for lack of sufficient evidence.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West filed arrange against YouTube founder Chad Hurley on Oct. 31, 2013, claiming he posted a video of the couple's surprise appointment to his website without permission. The procedure was delayed when Hurley's reps filed an anti-SLAPP motion in an attempt to have the case dismissed.
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Jahmel Binion filed a lawsuit against Shaquille O'Neal in July 2014 when O'Neal posted a photograph to his Instagram account mocking Binion, who suffers from a rare condition that causes facial abnormalities, sparse pilus and missing teeth. Binion claimed defamation, emotional distress and invasion of privacy in the $25,000 lawsuit, and after pressure level from the public O'Neal apologized.
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In 2014 vocaliser Chris Brown was mentioned in a lawsuit filed by the cousin of artist Frank Body of water. The defendant claimed Brown and an associate allegedly kicked and punched him when he confronted them about parking in a spot designated for Sea at a Los Angeles recording studio. Sea, who was as well injured, later said he wouldn't seek criminal or civil penalties.
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From embezzlement to slander, there's no shortage of celebrity court action
Betwixt Lindsay Lohan firing back at Fox News, Mariah Carey allegedly short changing her domestic help, and Sly Stone winning millions after suing his ex-manager -- stars oft turn to the courts to address their squabbles and strife.
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