Soulja Boy has been discovered liable in a civil lawsuit filed by his former private assistant, which alleges rape, assault and kidnapping.
On Thursday (April 10), a California jury dominated in favor of awarding the Jane Doe plaintiff over $4,000,000 in compensatory damages—triggering the trial to advance to the stage the place punitive damages shall be assessed.
Ron Zambrano, who served because the plantiff’s lawyer and works as a companion and Employment Litigation Chair at West Coast Employment Legal professionals instructed AllHipHop they had been “joyful” for his or her shopper and keen to maneuver into the following part of the trial. Previous to the most recent ruling on compensatory damages, Zambrano steered over $73,000,000 in damages.
“We’re joyful our shopper was vindicated and the jury believed her claims of bodily and sexual assault,” Ron Zambrano mentioned. “We’re trying ahead to shifting on to the punitive damages part of the case.”
Good morning from Santa Monica, the place a jury verdict shall be learn in @SouljaBoy’s civil sexual battery trial.
Jury questions yesterday indicated they’d discovered legal responsibility and had been deciding damages. We’ll learn how a lot quickly.
The lady’s attorneys steered $73.5 million. pic.twitter.com/g8suvBXpoM
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) April 10, 2025
In one other assertion, Neama Rahmani, who additionally represented the plantiff and serves as president of West Coast Employment Legal professionals steered this case is just the start of Soulja Boy’s authorized woe’s.
“In the present day’s verdict is just the start of justice for Soulja Boy’s victims, and different victims within the music business,” Rahmani added . “We look ahead to presenting Nia Riley’s case to a jury, and for attempting the Lizzo circumstances earlier than this identical decide.”
The unique criticism towards Soulja Boy, whose actual title is Deandre Cortez Manner, was filed in 2021 by the Jane Doe sufferer, who alleged the “Crank That” rapper engaged in a sample of abuse after hiring her as a private assistant in December 2018.
The majority of her lawsuit centered round claims of repeated sexual assaults and bodily abuse throughout her employment as Soulja Boy’s private assistant between the years of 2019 and 2020. She claims she was raped a number of occasions, together with through the 2019 police raid and once more in October 2020 when she returned to gather her belongings.
The plaintiff additionally accuses the rapper of locking her in a room for 3 days with out meals or water after she tried to stop in 2019.
Nonetheless, through the trial earlier this month, Soulja Boy denied their contact was something however consensual whereas testifying a few particular incident.
“I requested her if she wished to have intercourse, and she or he was engaged in it,” Soulja Boy testified. “She didn’t push me away or say cease, nothing like that.”
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