Diplo is talking out after being accused of violating “revenge porn” legal guidelines.
The 45-year-old DJ and producer, whose actual identify is Thomas Wesley Pentz, took to social media on Friday (June 28) to handle a civil lawsuit accusing him of sharing sexually-explicit movies and pictures of a former romantic companion with out her permission.
“Don’t consider what you learn within the information,” Diplo wrote on Instagram alongside a carousel of photographs and movies of himself. “I don’t personal a 100 million greenback mansion, I didn’t pay 450k euros to rave in Ibiza and I didn’t ship soiled snapchats in 2017.”
He added, “Let’s discuss how fortunate I’m to celebration with you guys and the way good the raves are right here in Europe .. (Athens Croatia Prague carried out .. París up subsequent).”
In a criticism filed Thursday (June 27) in Los Angeles federal court docket, an unnamed Jane Doe accuser claimed the DJ/producer recorded their sexual encounters and shared the supplies with others on Snapchat “with out plaintiff’s data or consent.”
In her criticism, the girl claims she had a consensual sexual relationship with Diplo from 2016 to 2023. Throughout that point, she says she often “gave defendant Diplo permission to report them having intercourse, however by no means gave him permission to distribute these photographs and movies to 3rd events and reiterated that he was to not report them with out her specific consent.”
In a press release on Friday, Diplo’s lawyer Bryan Freedman strongly denied the brand new allegations by referencing earlier lawsuits claiming abuse by the artist.
“In each case the place there was an allegation of improper conduct made in opposition to Wes, the end result has been both an instantaneous dismissal of a bogus lawsuit coupled with an apology, a court-ordered award for Wes in extra of $1.2 million, or the sluggish demise of an apparent shakedown try that has gone completely nowhere,” Freedman mentioned.
“Repeatedly, Wes has been focused by a gaggle of untrustworthy people and their unscrupulous legal professionals, cobbling collectively falsehoods looking for a meritless payday. This swimsuit appears to be simply extra of the identical, which is why we’ve got no cause to consider that it will finish any in a different way than all of the others.”
See Diplo’s response on Instagram right here.
