Metro Boomin Accuser Demands Mistrial In Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Final 12 months, Metro Boomin was sued by a lady named Vanessa LeMaistre. She alleges that he sexually assaulted her after she blacked out at his studio in 2016. The producer vehemently denies the allegations and accuses LeMaistre of creating her story up throughout an ayahuasca journey. Based on him, the 2 of them had consensual intercourse, and the go well with is nothing however a “traditional celeb shakedown.”

Yesterday (September 23), a jury heard opening arguments for the case. Already, LeMaistre’s crew is in search of a mistrial. Per Billboard, they allege that Metro Boomin’s crew made improper feedback about their shoppers’ sexual historical past with out in search of judicial approval. Willemin insists that the jury has been tainted, and that there is “no doable approach to undo” it.

“If plaintiff’s counsel was offered truthful warning and a [hearing] was held, the declare that plaintiff engaged in consensual intercourse with the defendant previous to the sexual assault would have been precluded,” LeMaistre’s lawyer, Michael Willemin, argues. “And, even when the court docket made the dedication that the declare of consensual intercourse pre-dating the sexual assault was way more probative than prejudicial, plaintiff would have recognized such data was going to be permitted and will surely have addressed it in plaintiff’s opening assertion.”

In her lawsuit, LeMaistre claims that she and Metro Boomin met in 2016, and that they “bonded over the flexibility of music to assist folks of their darkest moments.” She says this bond was “shattered” just some months later after the alleged assault, which she alleges befell after she ingested alcohol and Xanax.

LeMaistre alleges that she obtained pregnant by Metro Boomin too, and that the alleged assault is described in his tune “Rap Saved Me” with Offset, 21 Savage and Quavo.

“She took a Xanny, then she fainted,” the refrain, rapped by 21 Savage and Offset, begins. “I’m from the gutter, ain’t no altering/ From the gutter, rap saved me/ She drive me loopy, have my child.”