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N.O.R.E. is dealing with allegations of sexual assault from a former music govt, who claims the Queens rapper and podcast host forcibly digitally penetrated her in a Manhattan nightclub in 1999.
On the time, Carmen Bryan, who was working because the finance officer of Def Jam affiliate Rush Administration, bumped into N.O.R.E. (born Victor James Santiago Jr.) throughout an occasion selling his second album, Melvin Flynt – Da Hustler. Bryan says Santiago pressured himself onto her in entrance of her buddies and different membership patrons, based on a lawsuit obtained by Pitchfork. Regardless of her pleas to cease, the assault solely ended when bystanders “shouted” and “bodily pulled him away.”
Crying uncontrollably, Bryan fled the membership. Per the swimsuit, Santiago proceeded to observe her, making sexually express feedback and demanding, “Don’t who I’m?” It was solely within the illumination of streetlights that Santiago acknowledged Bryan because the accomplice of rapper Nas. “Carm, I didn’t understand it was you,” he allegedly stated. “You’re all the time doing one thing completely different together with your hair.”
In March, Bryan despatched a pre-suit settlement to Santiago, hoping to resolve the problem whereas informing him that his “illegal conduct” constituted “forcible touching, assault, disorderly conduct, sexual misconduct, and a violation of her civil rights.” Santiago reportedly claimed that he didn’t know Bryan.
“No lady indicators as much as be assaulted,” Heather Palmore, Bryan’s legal professional, wrote in a press release to Pitchfork. “The assertion that an assault is excusable—or just didn’t occur—as a result of a perpetrator failed to acknowledge his sufferer strips ladies 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 ladies’s our bodies as collateral harm.”
Pitchfork has reached out to N.O.R.E.’s lawyer for remark.
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