Kanye West’s former assistant has filed a lawsuit, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting her during a studio session he co-hosted with Sean “Diddy” Combs. An amended complaint obtained by Lauren Pisciotta, who was employed by West from 2021 to 2022, claims People West “sexually assaulted” her by giving her a drink laced with alcohol.
Pisciotta’s allegations are an expansion of her earlier wrongful termination lawsuit against West, in which she alleged she was subjected to explicit messages, pornographic images, videos and phone calls before she was fired from her job. She began working with West in July 2021 to assist with his Yeezy women’s fashion line and to collaborate on his 2021 album, Donda.
Earlier, a legal representative for West had denied Pisciotta’s other claims and said “you will be filing a lawsuit against Ms. Pisciotta.”
According to the now-amended complaint, filed October 8 in Los Angeles County Court, Pisciotta alleges that prior to her employment with West, he invited her to a studio session in Santa Monica, California, where “served drinks to other attendees. “, followed by an announcement that everyone would have to drink if they wanted to stay.”
The lawsuit claims that West and Combs co-hosted the studio session, and that Pisciotta participated with a “former artist management client.” Although the amended complaint names Combs as a co-host, Pisciotta is not accusing him of any wrongdoing.
The filing further alleges that the drink, which was served to Pisciotta by a studio assistant, allegedly at West’s request, was “laced with an unknown drug”, causing him to feel disoriented after only “a few small sips”. It started.
“As Plaintiff began to enter an altered and extremely impaired state, she began to lose control of her body and speech, and it was at this point that Plaintiff’s memories of that night slipped away from her,” the complaint reads.
According to the filing, Pisciotta “felt physically ill and confused” the next day and experienced “extreme embarrassment” due to his inability to remember what happened after drinking alcohol in the studio session.
For years, West’s former assistant believed he was drugged and humiliated at a work event. Later, when West hired Pisciotta as an assistant, chief of staff and A&R representative, he reportedly appeared for the first time that night. During the conversation, West told Pisciotta that they “hooked up once for a little while”, referring to the night at the Santa Monica studio where the alleged attack took place.
According to the complaint, when Pisciotta told West he had no memory of that studio session, West allegedly laughed and remarked, “Women love to say they don’t remember.”
“Up until that moment, just prior to that conversation, Plaintiff was unaware that she had been sexually assaulted and sexually assaulted by Kanye West, aka Ye, that studio night,” the document states.
The amended complaint also says Pisciotta felt “extreme embarrassment, discomfort and downright disgust.”
Additionally, Pisciotta alleges that in July 2021, during an “album workshop” at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, West “aggressively attacked” her at the door of her hotel room at 6 a.m., in her room. Forced his way in, claiming he needed it. To use his shower because his shower was broken. She further alleged that West subsequently approached her, “dropped his towel,” and attempted to “forcefully push his naked body and penis into the plaintiff’s face,” ignoring her pleas to stop. According to the complaint, West “swiftly walked away” after saying “sorry” and continued with his day as if nothing had happened.
The complaint also claims that Pisciotta, who alleges she received lewd messages from West and was fired from her chief of staff position at her companies in September 2022, just a month after her promotion, “has not digested the fact that ‘Could not that she worked for a man who sexually assaulted her while she was drugged, who then successfully lured her back into his orbit through a job opportunity only to repeat that assault.’ ‘
West also faces a separate lawsuit filed in April 2024 by a former employee who claimed she faced “severe discrimination (and) harassment” while working for Yeezy and his Donda Academy school Was. Additionally, a former employee recently filed a lawsuit alleging emotional distress, retaliation, and labor code violations.