A Los Angeles woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that Metro Boomin, a Grammy-nominated producer who has worked with some of the biggest names in hip hop and R&B music, raped her in 2016 and left her pregnant. after that.
The producer's lawyer called these accusations false and stated that the lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, is pure blackmail, the Guardian reports.
Vanessa LeMeister (38) claims in the lawsuit that she became friends with Metro Bumin, whose real name is Leland Wayne, after the death of her nine-month-old son. While visiting him at a music studio a few months later, she passed out and woke up in bed to find Wayne raping her, the lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit also states that she found out she was pregnant a few weeks later.
A lawyer for the producer, a 31-year-old artist born in St. Louis, immediately denied the allegations.
"This is pure blackmail. The allegations are false. Mr. Wayne refused to pay her months ago, and he refuses to do so now. Mr. Wayne will defend himself in court and file a claim for malicious prosecution if he wins," said attorney Lawrence Hinkle II in a statement on Wednesday.
Wayne created the soundtrack for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and co-produced most of the songs on that album. His 2022 album "Heroes & Villains," featuring John Legend, The Weeknd and Travis Scott, was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rap Album category. He has also collaborated with artists such as Future, Kendrick Lamar, Offset, 21 Savage and A$AP Rocky.
In the lawsuit, LeMejstr stated that she met Wayne at a party in Las Vegas in the spring of 2016, and that in the following months they met several times and that she "believed that they connected through the possibility of music to help people in their darkest moments." .
Around September, she visited him at a music studio in California, where she drank a shot of alcohol and took half a Xanax pill.
"The next thing Mrs. LeMaistre remembers is waking up on a bed in another location, with Wayne raping her, completely unable to move or speak. She was in a state of consciousness and unconsciousness for an unknown period of time, but later woke up again while Wayne performed oral sex on her," the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit states that at no time was she able to give consent.
A few weeks later, she found out she was pregnant, and according to the lawsuit, there was no doubt the child was Wayne's. Not long after, she decided to have an abortion.
Her sexual and gender-based violence lawsuit seeks damages to be determined at trial.
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