Hip-hop producer Metro Boomin is accused of rape in lawsuit

Prominent hip-hop shaper Metro Boomin has been accused of rape successful a lawsuit

LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles female has revenge a suit alleging that Metro Boomin, a Grammy-nominated shaper who has worked pinch immoderate of nan biggest names successful hip-hop and R&B, raped her successful 2016 and she became pregnant from nan attack.

The producer’s lawyer calls nan accusations mendacious and said nan suit revenge Tuesday successful Los Angeles Superior Court is “a axenic shakedown."

Vanessa LeMaistre, 38, says successful nan suit that she became friends pinch Metro Boomin, whose ineligible sanction is Leland Wayne, aft nan decease of her 9-month-old son. While visiting him successful a signaling workplace months later, she blacked retired and woke connected a furniture to find Wayne raping her, nan suit alleges.

She learned she was pregnant from nan onslaught a fewer weeks later, nan suit says.

An lawyer for nan 31-year-old St. Louis-born shaper instantly denied nan allegations.

“This is simply a axenic shakedown. These are mendacious accusations," Lawrence Hinkle II said successful a connection Wednesday. “Mr. Wayne refused to salary her months ago, and he refuses to salary her now. Mr. Wayne will take sides himself successful court. He will record a declare for malicious prosecution erstwhile he prevails.”

Wayne curated nan soundtrack to “Spider-Man: Across nan Spider-Verse” and co-produced astir of nan songs connected nan album. His 2022 medium “Heroes & Villains,” featuring contributions from John Legend and The Weeknd and Travis Scott, was nominated for a Grammy for champion rap album. He has besides worked pinch Future, Kendrick Lamar, Offset, 21 Savage and A$AP Rocky.

LeMaistre said successful nan suit that she met Wayne successful nan outpouring of 2016 astatine a statement successful Las Vegas and successful nan months that followed they met up respective times and she “believed that they had bonded complete nan expertise of euphony to thief group successful their darkest moments.”

Around September, she visited him astatine a California signaling workplace wherever she was fixed a changeable of intoxicant and took half a barroom of Xanax.

“The adjacent point Ms. LeMaistre tin callback is waking up connected a furniture successful a different location pinch Wayne raping her and being wholly incapable to move aliases make a sound," nan suit says. ”She was successful and retired of consciousness for an chartless magnitude of clip but awoke again astatine immoderate constituent to Wayne performing oral activity connected her."

At nary constituent was she capable to consent, nan suit says.

She learned she was pregnant a fewer weeks later, and location was nary mobility that nan kid was Wayne's, nan suit says. She had an abortion soon after.

The Associated Press does not typically sanction group who opportunity they person been sexually abused unless they travel guardant publicly, arsenic LeMaistre has. She is named successful nan suit and consented to being publically identified done her attorneys.

Her suit alleging intersexual artillery and gender unit seeks damages to beryllium wished astatine trial.