Kanye West accused of sexual assault on set of music video in new lawsuit

Rapper Ye - formerly known arsenic Kanye West - has been accused of intersexual battle successful a civilian suit that alleges helium strangled a exemplary connected the acceptable of a euphony video.

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The suit alleges the instrumentalist shoved his fingers successful the claimant's rima astatine the Chelsea Hotel successful New York City successful 2010, successful what it refers to arsenic "pornographic gagging", Sky News' US spouse web NBC News reported.

The exemplary who brought the lawsuit - which was filed connected Friday successful the US District Court for the Southern District of New York - was a inheritance histrion for different musician's euphony video that Ye was guest-starring in, NBC said, citing the lawsuit.

She is seeking compensatory and punitive damages against the 47-year-old.

A typical for Ye and the New York City Police Department were approached for remark by NBC News connected Saturday.

The suit alleges that a fewer hours into the shoot, the rapper arrived connected set, took implicit power and ordered "female inheritance actors/models, including the claimant, to enactment up successful the hallway".

The rapper is past believed to person "evaluated their appearances, pointed to 2 of the women, and past commanded them to travel him".

The suit adds the claimant, who was said to beryllium wearing "revealing lingerie", was uncomfortable but went with Ye to a suite which had a sofa and a camera.

When successful the room, Ye is said to person ordered the accumulation squad to commencement playing the music, to which helium did not cognize his lyrics and alternatively rambled, "rawr, rawr, rawr".

The suit claims: "Defendant West past pulled 2 chairs adjacent the camera, positioned them crossed from each other, and instructed the claimant to beryllium successful the seat successful beforehand of the camera."

While stood implicit the model, the suit clams Ye strangled her with some hands, according to NBC.

It claims helium went connected "emulate forced oral sex" with his hands, with the rapper allegedly screaming: "This is art. This is f****** art. I americium similar Picasso."

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Universal Music Group is besides named successful the suit arsenic a suspect and is accused of failing to analyse the incident.

The corp did not instantly respond to a petition for remark by NBC.

Jesse S Weinstein, a lawyer representing the claimant, said the pistillate "displayed large courageousness to talk retired against immoderate of the astir almighty men and entities wrong the amusement industry".