Soulja Boy was hit with a lawsuit back in 2021, with a woman alleging that the rapper sexually assaulted her and kept her against her will. Now, Soulja Boy is heading to civil trial in the matter and has long since denied the explosive claims against him.
As spotted in USA Today, Soulja Boy, real name DeAndre Cortez Way, will be facing civil trial in Santa Monica, Calif., after a former personal assistant accused the star of several heinous charges, and some of the details explained in the matter are disturbing, so we urge caution in further reading.
We tried to locate the news release mentioned in USA Today‘s report, but our search on the Los Angeles County Superior Court website did not turn up anything. Hip-Hop Wired has requested the full news release regarding the case and will update this report should that request be filled.
As mentioned above, the charges against Way, 34, were first filed in 2021 by a Jane Doe who says she started working for the rapper in 2018. The woman claimed that Way would send inappropriate images to her shortly after she was hired and that they began a romantic union that devolved into a violent one. The woman claimed that Soulja enacted “numerous instances of physical violence” along with “sexual assaults, spitting on her body, and threats of physical violence and death.”
Soulja Boy came out in 2021, denying the claims and promising to fight the charges with his legal team. In that same year, just months after the aforementioned matter he’s slated to go to trial over, another woman filed a lawsuit that levied more charges of assault and partner violence.
Thus far, it doesn’t appear that Soulja Boy has made any public comments regarding the civil trial, which should hear opening statements in the coming days.
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Soulja Boy Facing Civil Trial On Rape & Kidnapping Charges
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