CONTENT WARNING: This publish discusses allegations of sexual assault.
Jamie Foxx has been accused of sexually assaulting a lady eight years in the past.
Recalling the alleged incident, the plaintiff — referred to within the paperwork as Jane Doe — claims that she and a good friend had been seated “one desk away” from Foxx and the cofounder of the Catch Hospitality Group, Mark Birnbaum, who had been apparently ingesting collectively.
At round 1.00 a.m., the lady claims she approached Foxx and Birnbaum’s desk to ask for a selfie with the actor, to which he apparently replied: “Positive child, something for you.”
After taking some photos, Foxx allegedly started complimenting Doe’s look, telling her she had a “supermodel physique” and that she smelt good. She additionally claims he informed her she seemed like Gabrielle Union.
Within the criticism, Doe claims that Foxx “appeared intoxicated” earlier than he guided her to a extra non-public space of the rooftop the place she alleges she was sexually assaulted by him. A consultant for Foxx didn’t instantly reply when contacted by BuzzFeed for remark.
A Catch NYC safety guard who’s alleged to have witnessed the assault, however didn’t intervene, is listed as a defendant within the lawsuit.
Doe claims that Foxx stopped touching her upon realizing that her good friend had come out onto the rooftop, at which level he allegedly walked over to the close by safety guard.
Because of the alleged assault, the lady claims within the authorized filings that she “suffered and continues to undergo extreme emotional misery and anxiousness, humiliation, embarrassment, post-traumatic stress dysfunction and different bodily and emotional harm.”
The lawsuit additionally alleges that Birnbaum and Catch NYC breached their responsibility of care and enabled the assault to occur. The restaurant, its staff, and Birnbaum are listed as defendants within the criticism.
The alleged sufferer is looking for a trial by jury. She is suing for compensatory and punitive damages, alleging “sexual assault, abuse, assault and battery.”
The lawsuit is certainly one of a lot of sexual assault complaints to have been filed this week forward of New York’s Grownup Survivors Act (ASA) expiry on Nov. 24.
In keeping with MSNBC, the ASA invoice “gives victims of sexual assault who had been 18 years or older on the time of their abuse a one-year look-back interval to file a lawsuit towards their abuser and, if relevant, the establishment that harbored them,” no matter how way back the crime occurred.
