Final 12 months, Metro Boomin was sued by a girl who claimed that the hip-hop producer raped her in 2016. The case went to trial this week, and a Los Angeles jury has now discovered that Metro Boomin isn’t liable on the 4 causes of motion towards him, in keeping with Rolling Stone.
The girl who filed the grievance is known as Vanessa LeMaistre, and he or she sued Metro Boomin for battery, sexual battery, and a number of violations of California’s civil codes. In court docket, she testified that she determined to file the lawsuit after a remedy session involving ayahuasca in Peru in 2024. “I recall being instructed from the drugs that that is the foundation of your points for the previous 10 years, this incident with the defendant,” LeMaistre stated, in keeping with reporter Meghann Cuniff. “That is the foundation of continuous trauma and ache and struggling, and that I wanted to handle this, search justice and make contact with legal professionals.”
Metro Boomin vehemently denied in court docket that he sexually assaulted LeMaistre, and he claimed that his sexual encounters along with her have been consensual. “For somebody to come back out of the blue with one thing like this, somebody I haven’t seen in, like, a decade, like, it’s past insulting,” he testified, in keeping with Meghann Cuniff.
When reached by Pitchfork, Michael J. Willemin, an lawyer for LeMaistre stated, “Although the authorized system is usually stacked towards survivors, our shopper confirmed unwavering fortitude all through this trial. We’re upset within the end result, however are proud to signify Ms. LeMaistre and imagine that the decision will finally be overturned on enchantment.”
Pitchfork has additionally reached out to Metro Boomin’s legal professionals and representatives for remark.
