Kanye West Accused, in New Lawsuit, of Sexual Assault During 2010 Music Video Shoot
Kanye West is facing a new lawsuit from a woman who claims that he assaulted her during a music video shoot in 2010 https://t.co/NC9wXpFObr
- Pitchfork (@pitchfork) November 23, 2024
Kanye West has been sued by a woman who claims that he sexually assaulted her during a music video shoot in 2010. The woman, a model named Jenifer “Jenn” An, filed her lawsuit today (November 22) in a New York federal court. She is suing West and co-defendants Universal Music Group and Stink Digital USA LLC for violating New York’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act.
In her complaint, An, a former contestant on America’s Next Top Model, says she was cast in the music video for La Roux and Kanye West’s “In for the Kill” remix, filmed at New York’s Chelsea Hotel in September 2010. She says West selected her from a group of female actors and models, choosing to film a scene with her because she’s Asian.
After singling An out, according to the complaint, West demanded the film crew focus a camera on her face and his hands as he allegedly choked her, “smothered [her] face with both of his hands,” “rammed several fingers down her throat, continuously moved them in and out, and gagged her (which [An] believed lasted for over a minute) to emulate forced oral sex, and screamed, ‘This is art. This is fucking art. I am like Picasso.’” An claims that she “struggled to breathe and felt as if she had temporarily blacked out” during the alleged assault.