NEW YORK (AP) — A lady has alleged in a lawsuit that actor, singer and comic Jamie Foxx sexually assaulted her at a rooftop bar in New York in 2015, an incident the actor says “by no means occurred.”
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in state Supreme Courtroom in Manhattan by a lady recognized within the paperwork solely as Jane Doe alleges that Foxx rubbed her breasts and groped her below her pants in opposition to her will.
The swimsuit says she and a buddy had been seated at a desk subsequent to Foxx’s at Catch NYC in 2015. The girl’s requested Foxx for a photograph, and the 2 ladies took a number of footage with him, the swimsuit says. It says that afterward, he started complimenting her “tremendous mannequin physique” and informed her she appeared just like the actor Gabrielle Union.
He then grabbed her by the arm and took her to a secluded space, the place he put each palms below her crop high and felt her breasts, the fits says. She tried to drag away from Foxx as he reached into her pants along with his palms and touched her genitals, the swimsuit additionally alleges.
When the lady’s buddy discovered them, he stopped and the ladies walked away, the swimsuit says.
A press release in response launched Thursday from a consultant for the 55-year-old Foxx stated the alleged incident by no means occurred.
“In 2020, this particular person filed a virtually an identical lawsuit in Brooklyn. That case was dismissed shortly thereafter. The claims are not any extra viable in the present day than they had been then. We’re assured they are going to be dismissed once more. And as soon as they’re, Mr. Foxx intends to pursue a declare for malicious prosecution in opposition to this particular person and her attorneys for re-filing this frivolous motion,” the assertion stated.
The girl is in search of damages to be decided at trial, the swimsuit says.
The lawsuit was considered one of many filed this week below a brief New York regulation, the Grownup Survivors Act, that enables grownup victims sue over alleged sexual assaults that beforehand would have been exterior the statute of limitations. The regulation expired after Thursday.
The Related Press doesn’t usually title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused until they arrive ahead publicly.
