Chantaize Darius Jeremy Pierce, higher referred to as Shangela, is going through sexual assault allegations after a earlier sexual assault lawsuit was dismissed.
Court docket paperwork have been filed Monday (February 24) in New York by grownup movie actor Dakota Payne, underneath his actual identify Eric Poff, alleging that the 43-year-old RuPaul’s Drag Race alum and one other unnamed male participated in a sexual assault in 2017 in New York Metropolis, by way of EW.
The grievance asks for a jury trial and compensatory damages.
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Within the authorized docs, Dakota alleges that the assault occurred whereas Shangela was on a break from filming Bianca Del Rio‘s Hurricane Bianca film in October 2017 in New York Metropolis.
Whereas at a Manhattan bar, Dakota alleges he consumed “one or two drinks,” however that “upon info and perception,” now believes he “had his drink ‘spiked’ with a drug whereas on the bar.” He alleges that he “has no reminiscence of occasions between consuming the drink and changing into semi-conscious in a resort room” afterward.
“After Plaintiff began to fade into consciousness, he was bent over a mattress being anally penetrated with out consent by John Doe with Pierce watching from the nook of the room,” the grievance reads. “Pierce then anally penetrated Plaintiff with out his consent. Defendants couldn’t receive Plaintiff’s consent given his semi-conscious state. After the sexual assault, Pierce despatched Plaintiff cash by way of PayPal.”
The grievance alleges that the act violated New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Legislation, which was handed in 2000 and amended in 2022 to incorporate an extension of the statute of limitations.
In March of final yr, Rolling Stone revealed a bombshell article which detailed allegations from 5 individuals claiming to both be sexually assaulted by Shangela, or that he had tried to rape them at totally different intervals between 2012 and 2018.
On the time, Shangela denied the allegations and mentioned in a letter to the publication that the claims have been “false and unsupported by any proof or dependable witness testimony,” noting there have been “important issues with purported accusers’ accounts” and that he “adamantly denies ever partaking in nonconsensual intercourse.”
In 2023, a manufacturing assistant named Daniel McGarrigle, who labored on Shangela‘s We’re Right here present, additionally filed a swimsuit alleging rape and gender violence. The events reached a settlement in February 2024.
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