Former Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise solid member DeMario Jackson has been accused of sexual assault.
The truth TV star is being sued for sexual battery, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional misery in a lawsuit filed by two unnamed girls who declare to have met Jackson, 35, on-line.
The ladies, identified solely as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, are searching for an unspecified quantity of damages.
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Jackson’s lawyer, Walter Mosley, supplied a assertion to Leisure Tonight following the official court docket submitting on Tuesday.
“The allegations introduced in opposition to him are fully unfounded,” Mosley wrote. “Because the Plaintiffs’ personal grievance clearly states, the police, who DeMario totally cooperated with over three years in the past, discovered these girls’s accusations to haven’t any advantage.”
Police refused to pursue the matter, Mosley claimed.
“Within the days to return, we are going to launch the proof we shared with the police on the time of the alleged incidents,” he mentioned. “Sadly, DeMario and I should take up this combat once more to clear his title.”
Mosley wrote that he expects to have the identical “name-clearing consequence.”
Jackson appeared on Season 17 of ABC’s The Bachelorette and Season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise, each in 2017.
Within the lawsuit, the 2 girls accused Jackson of “trolling the web or in any other case trying to find unsuspecting girls, such because the Plaintiffs in an effort to abuse them.”
Jane Doe 1, a 25-year-old lady from Pittsburgh, claimed to have met Jackson on a relationship app.
She and Jackson went on a date in downtown Los Angeles. She alleged Jackson “uncovered” himself to her on the finish of the evening. Jane Doe 1 described the behaviour as “unacceptable.”
“Jane Doe 1 was shocked and felt trapped,” the lawsuit reads.
After Jackson apologized, Jane Doe 1 claimed they went on a number of extra dates.
Following one such date, the lady claimed Jackson “forcefully sexually assaulted her” whereas he was intoxicated, regardless of her repeated verbal non-consent. Jane Doe 1 accomplished a rape package in an area hospital the next day. Within the lawsuit, she mentioned she is “haunted with visions” of the sexual assault. She additionally claimed to have taken a go away of absence from each college and her office.
A 28-year-old Cleveland resident, Jane Doe 2, claimed to have met Jackson on social media in 2019. The next 12 months, Jackson requested Jane Doe 2 on a date at his house, the go well with alleges.
The lawsuit claims Jackson “satisfied Jane Doe 2 that his personal house was the one viable choice for his or her date” on account of his Bachelorette fame. The authorized grievance continues, alleging Jackson “pressured himself onto Plaintiff regardless of her calls for to cease.” Jane Doe 2 claimed he later apologized.
The accuser “stays traumatized and completely distressed,” the lawsuit states. The lawyer representing each girls, Keith M. Davidson, additionally supplied a press release:
“These girls who’ve come ahead with their horror tales of how they have been brutally sexually assaulted by Mr. Jackson are the newest courageous victims to share their tales of how a robust male used his movie star standing to govern, intimidate and silence them,” he wrote.
“They, like so many different victims within the #metoo reckoning, will likely be silent no extra. Justice should be served,” the assertion reads. “We sit up for holding all wrongdoers accountable for his or her despicable and scarring acts.”
In 2017, Jackson was accused of sexual misconduct on the set of Bachelor in Paradise. Fellow solid member Corinne Olympios made the report, although no proof of misconduct was discovered throughout a Warner Bros. investigation. Jackson and Olympios have been each faraway from the present.
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If you happen to or somebody you recognize is experiencing abuse or is concerned in an abusive scenario, please go to the Canadian Useful resource Centre for Victims of Crime for assist. They’re additionally reachable toll-free at 1-877-232-2610.
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