Jamie Foxx is latest celebrity to face sexual assault lawsuit

A lady on Wednesday filed a lawsuit towards Jamie Foxx alleging the actor sexually assaulted her throughout an August 2015 encounter at a preferred restaurant in New York Metropolis. The lawsuit, which was filed in New York Supreme Court docket, claims the assault occurred at Catch NYC, PEOPLE reported.

The plaintiff, named Jane Doe within the lawsuit, claimed she noticed Foxx and Catch Hospitality Group co-founder Mark Birnbaum having drinks when she went to the institution. The alleged sufferer claimed that she later made her approach to the Django Unchained actor’s desk with a good friend and requested for an image. The plaintiff claimed Foxx obliged and went forward to take “a number of images”, including that the actor “appeared intoxicated.” 

She additionally alleged Foxx informed her, “Wow, you could have that tremendous mannequin physique”, “You scent so good” and “You seem like Nickie.” She claimed she requested the 55-year-old actor who “Nickie” was, and he responded by saying, “Gabrielle Union.” She alleged Foxx subsequently grabbed her arm and took her to a secluded space.

After they received there, Doe claimed Foxx “positioned each of his fingers on her waist, moved them underneath her ‘crop high’ and started rubbing her breasts.” She claimed she tried to maneuver away and noticed a safety guard “a ways away who noticed what was taking place however walked additional away.” She additionally claimed the Legislation Abiding Citizen actor then positioned his fingers into her pants and inserted his fingers in her vagina and anus, PEOPLE reported.

The plaintiff claimed Foxx stopped what he was doing after he seen her good friend had come round. The girl claimed the incident resulted in her struggling an damage, including that she was “rendered sick, sore, lame and disabled; [and] was brought on to endure medical remedy and recommendation.”

She additionally claimed she “was unable to pursue her standard and common actions; was brought on to endure nice acutely aware ache and struggling, continues to endure such, and can completely be affected by the accidents and emotional misery she incurred because of the sexual assault, abuse, assault and battery.” She additional alleged that she “has suffered and continues to endure bodily and emotional accidents, nervousness, misery, embarrassment and financial hurt.”

The plaintiff is in search of an unspecified quantity plus damages for ache and struggling, and financial loss. Doe filed the lawsuit underneath New York’s Grownup Survivors Act – a legislation that took impact in November 2022. The legislation grants a “one-year lookback window for survivors of sexual assault that occurred after they had been over the age of 18 to sue their abusers no matter when the abuse occurred.” The final day for alleged victims to file lawsuits underneath the act is Thursday, November 23.

Foxx’s latest authorized case comes after Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie additionally filed a sexual abuse lawsuit towards the music mogul. Cassie, whose actual title is Casandra Ventura, claimed that for about 10 years, Diddy subjected her to intercourse trafficking in addition to bodily and sexual assault. The 2 entertainers, nevertheless, introduced that they had settled the lawsuit a day after it was filed in New York.