N.O.R.E. has reportedly been sued for allegedly sexually assaulting Carmen Bryan, the mom of Nas’ daughter, 27 years in the past.
On Wednesday (Sept. 9), Bryan’s attorneys filed a 20-page grievance towards the rapper-podcaster, actual title Victor Santiago, in New York, Rolling Stone stories. Bryan claims N.O.R.E. compelled himself upon her at a packed New York nightclub in Could of 1999 when he was selling his album Melvin Flint – Da Hustler.
The go well with claims an intoxicated N.O.R.E. “dedicated an act of nonconsensual digital penetration” on Bryan regardless of her pleas for him to cease, and he needed to be pulled off of her by different clubgoers. Bryan claims she fled the membership and was adopted by N.O.R.E., who continued to make crude feedback till he realized that she was Nas’ kid’s mom and apologized. Bryan says N.O.R.E. apologized once more weeks later at a Father’s Day occasion and party for Nas’ daughter.
Bryan claims she principally stayed silent in regards to the incident, however informed Jay-Z, with whom she had an on-and-off relationship, and requested him to not become involved. Cassie Ventura’s 2023 lawsuit towards Diddy prompted Bryan to take authorized motion. In line with the go well with, she informed N.O.R.E. in regards to the forthcoming lawsuit in March within the hopes of settling the matter privately, however he denied realizing her.
In a press release offered to Rolling Stone, Bryan’s lawyer Marjorie Mesidor stated: “No girl indicators as much as be assaulted. The assertion that an assault is excusable—or just didn’t occur—as a result of a perpetrator failed to acknowledge his sufferer strips girls of their basic humanity. Ms. Bryan is coming ahead not solely to demand accountability for the lasting trauma and public humiliation inflicted upon her, however to problem the tradition of entitlement that treats girls’s our bodies as collateral harm.”
Bryan is looking for compensatory damages along with damages for emotional misery and psychological anguish.
XXL has reached out to N.O.R.E. for remark.
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