Kanye West’s Ex-Assistant Expands Lawsuit, Claims He Drugged and Sexually Assaulted Her
Kanye West’s former personal assistant Lauren Pisciotta, who has accused him of firing her after sexually harassing her, has amended her lawsuit to add several new claims, including that she was at a studio session Santa Monica, California where she was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted by West.
In the lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone, Pisciotta said she and a former artist manager client that is unnamed were invited to the studio session. The studio session was co-hosted by Sean Combs, although he is not named as a party in the suit and there are no allegations of wrongdoing against Combs. The date that the event took place was not specified. Drinks were served during the session, “followed by an announcement that everybody had to drink, if they wanted to stay,” the suit alleges. “Unbeknownst to Plaintiff, the drink she was served was laced with an unidentified drug,” the suit claims. “After a few small sips of the beverage poured at the direction of Kanye West a.k.a. Ye by a studio assistant and then served to her by Kanye West a.k.a. Ye, Plaintiff suddenly started to feel disoriented.
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“As Plaintiff began to slip into an altered and heavily impaired state, she felt less in control of her body and speech and that is where Plaintiffs memories of that night escape her,” the suit continues.
The next day, the suit claims Pisciotta woke up “physically ill and confused.” She also felt “immense shame and embarrassment for not being able to recall a single detail of her night after those initial sips of her drink” that were served to her by West, the suit alleges.
It was only years later that Pisciotta said she found out that she had been allegedly sexually assaulted. West revealed they did “hook up” at the studio session, which made her realize that she had allegedly been drugged and sexually assaulted that night. When she told West that she had “no memory or recollection of that night at the studio session and only remembered the very beginning of the night when they sat down on a couch in a room full of people, and took sips of the one drink he handed her,” the suit claims that West laughed and said, “Women love to say they don’t remember.”
A rep for West did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s request for comment.
In the original complaint, Pisciotta accused Wet of sexual harassment, breach of contract, and wrongful termination. It alleged that he sent explicit messages to her, would masturbate while on the phone with her, and at one point masturbated in front of her.
West has been publicly affiliated with explicit content on multiple occasions beyond this complaint. In November 2022, Rolling Stone reported that multiple former Yeezy employees claimed West showed them pornography and inappropriate photos of his then-wife Kim Kardashian, among other alleged tactics of intimidation and control. In the past, West has referred to a “full-on pornography addiction” that “destroyed my family” and to sex as a design inspiration.
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