A Los Angeles woman filed
a lawsuit on Wednesday against Chris Brown and a fellow rapper, alleging she
was repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted at Brown’s home during a drug- and
alcohol-fueled party last year.
The woman, identified only as Jane Doe,
said she was lured to the singer’s house following a concert at a nightclub on
February 23, 2017 and was raped several times by Lowell Grissom, who performs
under the name Young Lo.
She also alleges that another
unidentified woman at the party assaulted her, forcing her into performing oral
sex.
The assault was all the more gruesome,
the lawsuit alleges, as the attacker — identified as Doe X — was menstruating
at the time.
“This is one of the most horrific cases
involving alleged sexual assault that I have ever seen,” Gloria Allred, one of
three lawyers representing the woman, said in a statement.
“Our client, Jane Doe, has been severely
traumatized by what she was forced to suffer.”
According to the lawsuit, following a
concert at 1 Oak club in West Hollywood, the plaintiff and her roommate went to
an after party where they met Grissom and Brown and had their phones
confiscated.
The suit says that the plaintiff later
ended up at Brown’s home as she was told by Grissom she could retrieve her cell
phone at that location, where the party was continuing.
“Our client alleges … she was forced to
go to Brown’s home because she perceived that she would only be able to
retrieve her phone there,” Allred said.
The lawsuit said that the 29-year-old
rapper provided alcohol and drugs, including cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana, at
his home.
He also gave each female guest a clear
capsule filled with white powder and instructed them to take it to have a “good
time,” the suit alleges, adding that the plaintiff refused to take the drug.
The complaint says that at one point, the
plaintiff was led to a bedroom where several women were having sex with Grissom
and Brown.
“Plaintiff refused to undress and made it
clear that she did not want to engage in any sexual activity with anyone,”
according to the document.
It said that the plaintiff was
subsequently repeatedly raped by Grissom and assaulted by Doe X. She was later
allowed to leave the room by Doe X, who instructed her to take a shower.
“Plaintiff looked in the mirror and was
horrified to see that she was covered in Doe X’s blood because Doe X had been
menstruating,” the suit states.
It said the victim eventually was allowed
to call a ride-sharing service and went to a rape treatment center and to the
police where she reported the assaults.
“She filed this lawsuit because she wants
justice for herself, but she also wants to warn other young women about the
potential danger to themselves if they have their phone taken away and if they
go to Chris Brown’s house,” Allred said.
Brown and Grissom’s publicists could not
be immediately reached for comment.
Contacted by AFP, Los Angeles police said
there was “no open investigation at this time regarding Chris Brown.”
The pop star over the years has had
several brushes with the law.
He was convicted in 2009 of beating
fellow singer Rihanna, his then-girlfriend, who was forced to miss the Grammy
Awards that year.
In 2016, he was arrested and charged with
assault with a deadly weapon after a bizarre hours-long standoff with police in
Los Angeles.
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