Ye’s former assistant claimed the rapper drugged and sexually assaulted her

Ye’s former assistant accused the rapper of drugging and sexually assaulting her at an event co-hosted by Sean “Diddy” Combs in an amended complaint she filed this week, adding another dimension of seriousness to the legal problems the artist is facing.

Lauren Pisciotta said she and others were served drinks during a studio session with a former client in Santa Monica, Calif., co-hosted by Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Combs, according to the court filing. 86 pages from the Superior Court of Los Angeles. But after a few sips, Pisciotta said she started to feel disoriented.

As she “began to sink into an altered and severely impaired state, she felt less in control of her body and speech,” the complaint continues. It’s the last thing she remembers from that night, she says, before waking up the next day “feeling physically sick and confused.”

She assumed a studio assistant or someone making the drinks had made her drink, she said in the filing, and – feeling the shame of not being able to remember what happened that night – did not investigate further.

Years later, after Ye fired her and learned she had been sexually assaulted, the trial continued, after Ye’s ex-wife testified that Ye and Pisciotta had been “intimate » while Ye was married. The lawsuit does not name his ex-wife, although Ye’s marriage to Kim Kardashian was ending in divorce at the time of Pisciotta’s firing.

When Pisciotta asked if she could message his ex-wife to tell her it wasn’t true, Ye reportedly replied, “We kind of met once,” before recalling the night at Santa Monica.

The allegations were added Tuesday to Pisciotta’s lawsuit first filed in June, which accuses Ye and several Yeezy divisions of wrongful termination, sexual harassment, hostile work environment and unpaid wages, among other accusations.

Pisciotta was Ye’s assistant turned chief of staff from July 2021 to October 2022, according to the filing. She was promised a $3 million raise on her $1 million salary when she was promoted to the job, but she never received it, she said, and after being fired about a month later and offered her a $3 million severance package, which she did not receive. neither does this money.

Throughout her employment, she claimed, she was subjected to detailed conversations and text messages from Ye about who he had sex with or wanted to have sex with – including herself.

He asked her and other female Yeezy employees for “hugs,” which the lawsuit described as code for allowing him to smell and grope their bodies. In one story, she claimed Ye forced her to fly from Los Angeles to New York on her birthday to hand-deliver her passport, and when she arrived at his hotel room , he gave her a hug. According to the amended complaint, the artist insisted that she be the one to bring him his “sexual honey,” a sexual enhancement and performance honey that he had requested before sexual encounters, including “sex parties.” .

Combs was accused of hosting sex parties called “freak offs,” which formed part of the basis for his racketeering and sex trafficking charges. The hip-hop mogul has had 12 sexual assault lawsuits filed against him in the past year, with 120 more reportedly pending.

When she declined Ye’s invitations to have sex, she alleged that he “used fake offers of Maybach, Lamborghini, Hermes Birkin handbags, watches, augmentations and more in order to to entice and encourage the applicant to give in to his sexual advances and desire to have sex. have it.

Representatives for Ye did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ye has been the subject of several employee complaints over the past year. On Thursday, an anonymous John Doe filed a lawsuit against Ye and Yeezy for retaliation, emotional distress and labor code violations. He said he was hired as an intelligence director and alleged that the artist threatened to kill him and fired him after Doe reported allegations of child abuse at Donda Academy, the school private company founded by Ye.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing commentator, resigned from Yeezy in May after the two reportedly clashed over “Yeezy Porn,” an adult film company that Ye hoped to launch.

Additionally, Ye lost several business partnerships, including Adidas, which had supported his successful sportswear company Yeezy, in October 2022, after he publicly made anti-Semitic comments and wore a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt this year – there.