In California Jury Found Grammy-Nominated Soulja Boy Liable for Claims Heulted, SexUally Battened and Harasted a Jane Doe Plaintiff While She was world as his personal assistant, Lived with Him and Entered Intort A Sometimes-Consensuals Intimate Relationship With Him in Him in 2019 and 2020.
After Two Days of Resolution, The Jury Ninunded Thursday that the “Crank That” Rapper, Born Deandre Cortez Way, Owes The Woman More Than $ 4 Million in Damages I know. The panel now moves on a second phase of the trial to punitive determines damages.
In A Mixed Decision, The Jurors Found That Way Placed the Woman in Fear and Subjected Her to Sexuary Offensive Contact, Gender Violence and Interactional Infliction of Emotional Distress. They found she also Sudffered Workplace Harassment When Sheked for Way Bethaeen Jan. 10, 2019 and July 20, 2019. The Jury Found the rapper Did Not Falsely Imprison The Woman.
AS the Verdict was Read, Way Looked Straight Ahead. He appeared to Have a Slight Smile On His Face Whee The Clerk Revealed the Jury Had Awarded $ 760,000 for the Woman's Assault Claim. Way's Expression Dropped After Heard the Jury Awarded $ 1.5 Million for the Sexual Battery Cause of Action. The Smile was gone Completely When the Clerk Said the jurors decide was punitive damages as well.
During Closing Arguments Monday, The Woman Wiped Tears As Her Lawyer Said She Deserved $ 73.6 Million in Past and Future Damages for the Alleged Horrors She Suffered at the Hands of Way. Her Attorney, Ronald Zambrano, Painted Way As a Brutal Boss Who Regularly Raped and Beat The Woman, Subjected Her to Labor Code Violations and Dresseed Up in Non-Prescription “Fake Glasses” and A Suit To Lie to Jurors About the Alleged Abuse.
“He raped her, he punched her, he kicked her, he cut her. He picked up and then slammed her, chowed her, left brutesi from squeezing her arm. He grabbed her head by a mirror and said, 'no one will love you,'” Zambrano told the jury of seven women and help Men. “He pointed a Draco Gun at Her. He locked her in a Room, Threateneed Her Family, Threateneed Her, Denied Her Food.”
The Lawyer Showed The Jurors Screen Grabs From Text Messages Bethaeen The Woman and Way. In One Exchange From April 20, 2020, Way Texted “I Hope U Die Slow.” The Jane Doe Responded with, “You Think You Can Keep Hitting On Me, You Are Crazy,” To Which Way Responded, “Fuck U Bitch.” In Other Messages Highlighted During the Trial, The Woman Texted Way, “You Body Slammed Me On My Head and Chowd Me,” and, “I Should Have Just Let You Hit Me. Idc Anymore I Feel Lost Now.” Zambrano Said Way Never Responded to the Woman's Texted accusations with protests that she was making false claims. He Usually Ignored Them, Zambrano Said. When way Did Text The Woman, He often Asked Her to Complete Tasks Such As Picking Up His Food, Setting up His Computer Equipment and Organizing His Travel Arrangements. Way Also Sent Disparaging Messages Like, “I Hope You Catch Corona, Bitch,” And, “I Should Have Killed Your Ass,” Zambrano Told the Jury.
In Way's Defense, The Rappers' Lead Lawyer Argued Way Was the Victim of an ex-girillfriend advancing a “False Story” for Money. The Lawyer, Rickey Ivie, Argued that When the Woman First Reported Her Allegations to Police in December 2020, She Didn'T Tell the Investigning Deputy That Way Allegedly Knocked Her Unconscious On One Occasion and SepaRately Smacked Her in the Mouth and Forced Her to Engage in Engage in Oral Copulation. He argued the Woman Could Have Escaped Her Allged False Imprisonment At Way's House Where She Traveled Through Airports That Were Crawling with Police.
He urged jurors to interpret one december 2020 Message sent by the woman as a demand for $ 50,000 and a Dodge Charger to Resolve Her Claims. He Called the Effort “EXTORTION” and Pointed Out that in One Text from April 2020, Way Did Push Back Against The Woman's Claims, Telling Her to “Stop” Texting Him “Police Shit.” “Plaintiff IS Motivated by Jealousy, Revenge and Financial Gain,” Ivie Told the Jury. “She Wanted To Be Paid. That's What This Case Is All About. It's Not About the Truth, It's Just Not.”
The Woman Reported Her Allerged Abuse to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office in December 2020. In April 2021, The Ventura County District Attorney's Office “Declined to File Charges Two to Insufficient Evidence to Test The Allged Crimes True Beyond a Reasonable Doubt,” An Agency SpokesPerson Previous Told Rolling Stone.
Over the Four-Week Civil Trial, The Jury Heard Directly from the Woman, Way, Several Medical Experts, in Bodyguard and One of Way's Managers. In Graphic and Harrowing testimon Delivered March 19, The Woman Described the Purportted Bathroom Attack During the Police Raid in 2019. She Claimed Way Chucked Several Guns Out A Window Into a Steep Cantal and Was Trying to arranged Narcotics in A Bathroom When he Allegedly Her Around, Pulled Her Pands Down and “Started Having Sex” with Her. She Didn't Immediately Report The Alleged Attack to the Sheriff's Deputies Who Raided the Home Because She was “terfied” of way and possible retaliation, She Testified.
“The feared for my life,” doe told the jury on the four day of the civil trial. She Claimed Way Told Her He Knew Where Her Mother Lived and Had Threateneed to “Send Shooters” to the House. “I was scared of what he would do to my family. I Didn'T Want Him to Hurt Anybody Because of me,” She Testified.
The Woman Said She Was So Desperate For Food While Living With Way in Early 2019, She Gathered Loose Change from the Home and Gave It to the Property's Gardeners SO They Couuld Buy Her Instant Noodles. She Claimed She Dropped From 140 Pounds Down to 86 Pounds Before Way was sent to jail in April 2019 for a probation Violation Linked to the raid. “I Didn'T Even Feel Human Anymore. I Felt like An Animal,” She Said.
When it was sharing to Testify, Way Admitted there was a sexual encounter with the woman when police show up at the door of his $ 25,000-a-month rental home to serve the search warrant-but he claimed she allowed. “I Asked Her If She, Wanted to Have Sex, and She was engaged in it,” he said. “She Didn'T Push me or Say Stop, Nothing like that.”
Way, 34, Denied He Ever Abused the Woman in Any Way, Claiming they “Bonded” During Their Time Together and Always Acted Volunciotarily. He said the woman would handle errands for him because he offered her a free place to live and they struck up a personal relationship, not because she was a paid employee. “Did You Ever Hit the Plaintiff In The Mouth, Bust Her Lip, and Force Her To Give You Oral Sex?” His Lawyer Ivie Asked During Way's Testony. “Of course not, and that's a disgusting allegation,” Way Responded. “IT Sounds Crazy to me. I Did Not do that.”
Way Has Also Been Accused of Physical and Sexual Assault by Former Girlfriends Kayla Myers and Model Nia Riley, The Daughter of Musician Teddy Riley. Way Appered on the reality show LWhere & hip hop: Hollywood and and Marriage Bootcamp With Riley. In 2021, Riley Sat Down with YouTube Vlogger Tashak And Said Way Threatened Her With A Gun and Kicked Her in the Stomach While She Was Pregnant, Causing Her to Suffer A Miscarriage.
Myers Claimed in a prior lawsuit that she had a romantic relationship with way that ended when he allegly Held a gun to Her Head, Threateneed Her Life, and Assulted His Home On Feb. 1, 2019. A civil court Jury Found Way Liable for the Assault and Kidnapping Myers at a Prior Trial.
Way is set to Begin His 32-City Swag Tour This Summer. His Next Concert is set for Friday, April 11, in San Luis Obispo, California.
