© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Jamie Foxx attends the premiere of the movie “Creed III” in London, Britain February 15, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photograph
By Daybreak Chmielewski and Steve Gorman
(Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx was accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in New York Metropolis on Wednesday that alleges he groped a girl at a rooftop bar and restaurant in Manhattan in August 2015.
The plaintiff, recognized within the grievance solely as Jane Doe, stated the assault occurred in a secluded nook of the Catch NYC rooftop lounge after she and a pal had approached the movie star and had their footage taken with him.
Foxx’s representatives didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages.
The lawsuit stated Foxx started groping the girl and placing his palms beneath her clothes towards her will till her pal discovered the 2 of them, interrupting the encounter, and he or she left.
The actor is greatest identified for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of singer Ray Charles within the 2004 movie “Ray.” He additionally earned an Oscar nomination for his supporting function that very same 12 months within the movie “Collateral.”
He is without doubt one of the newest high-profile celebrities accused of sexual wrongdoing in a latest sequence of lawsuits filed beneath the Grownup Survivors Act, a New York state legislation permitting such lawsuits to be filed in courtroom even when the statutes of limitations have run out.
The deadline for the particular one-year window for such complaints beneath the legislation expires on the finish of this month.
Music business veteran Jimmy Iovine was likewise sued on Wednesday by an girl claiming he sexually abused her.
Within the Iovine grievance filed in New York state courtroom in Manhattan, a girl recognized solely as “Jane Doe” stated she was sexually abused, forcibly touched and topic to sexual harassment and retaliation in August 2007.
A spokesperson for Iovine stated they had been “fairly shocked and baffled” by the grievance.
“This inquiry is the primary we’ve heard of this matter. Nobody has ever made a declare like this towards Jimmy Iovine, nor have we been contacted or made conscious of any grievance by anybody, together with this unknown plaintiff before now,” the spokesperson stated.
The plaintiff’s lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, declined additional remark.
Iovine, a onetime recording engineer, co-founded Interscope Information, a music label related to West Coast hip hop that’s now a part of Common Music Group (AS:). Iovine later partnered in 2006 with producer Dr. Dre to launch Beats Electronics, an organization which Apple (NASDAQ:) acquired in 2014 for $3 billion.
Others sued beneath the legislation embrace actors Russell Model and Invoice Cosby, former film producer Harvey Weinstein, a former president, Donald Trump, and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, whose case was settled after sooner or later.
Axl Rose, the previous lead singer of Weapons N’ Roses, was sued beneath the legislation on Wednesday by Sheila Kennedy, an actress and former Penthouse Pet of the 12 months, over an alleged 1989 assault.