Young Thug Attends Metro Boomin’s Sexual Assault Trial

Younger Thug made an look at Metro Boomin‘s civil rape trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The trial started with opening statements on Tuesday, throughout which the courtroom heard the allegations introduced by Vanessa LeMaistre. She claims Metro allegedly took benefit of her after she consumed Xanax and alcohol at his studio in 2016. The long-lasting producer denies the allegations, saying their encounter was consensual.

As for Younger Thug, he attended Wednesday’s listening to to point out his assist for the producer. “I am simply right here to assist him,” Thug instructed Rolling Stone’s Nancy Dillon. “He is a longtime good friend.”

The trial noticed a dramatic opening on Tuesday after LeMaistre’s attorneys demanded a mistrial over Metro’s legal professionals allegedly referencing a previous sexual historical past between LeMaistre and Metro. LeMaistre has denied that this was the case. “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,” they argued, based on Billboard. “And, even when the courtroom made the dedication that the declare of consensual intercourse pre-dating the sexual assault was much more probative than prejudicial, plaintiff would have identified such info was going to be permitted and will surely have addressed it in plaintiff’s opening assertion.”

Younger Thug’s assist for Metro Boomin comes as he prepares to launch his extremely anticipated album, UY Scuti, on Friday, September 26. It would mark his first album since getting out of jail within the YSL RICO case, final 12 months. He has additionally teased having a collaboration with YFN Lucci in retailer.

The brand new music comes as Younger Thug is coping with authorized drama of his personal. The state of Georgia lately filed an attraction to reverse the ruling that allowed him to reclaim his property that was seized in the course of the YSL RICO case. The property included $150,000 in money, a number of useful automobiles, and quite a few items of bijou, based on Billboard.