Charlamagne Tha God is being sued by a woman for an alleged sexual assault that she claims he had committed against her back in 2001. According to documents, the alleged victim, Jessica Reid, filed a federal lawsuit against the radio host in a New York Court. Charlamagne has been accused of “willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously engage in intercourse with a fifteen-year-old female child” while he was 22 years old at the time.
At the time Reid did not cooperate with the police’s investigation after she was found “crying uncontrollably” after attending Charlamagne’s birthday party at Short Stay Naval Recreational Center in Charleston, South Carolina in June 2001. After a rape kit was performed on Reid, none of Charlamagne Tha God’s DNA was found and material tested from underneath Reid’s fingernails were also analyzed and were determined to contain “nothing of apparent serological evidentiary value.”
After an investigation, CTG plead guilty to a lower charge of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” after providing Reid with alcohol. He served three years of probation however, the sexual assault charge was dismissed. In 2018, a petition was started asking that he be fired from IHeartRadio due to the alleged sexual assault.
The lawsuit states, “Ms. Reid has tried to get justice, but to no avail. And to make matters worse, everyone that Ms. Reid reached out to, including iHeartRadio, ignored her and still allowed Charlamagne to speak on their platform, Every time Ms. Reid turns on the radio and hears his voice, sees him on TV, and walks past his books in the stores, she is reminded of what Charlamagne did to her.”
Meanwhile, Charlamagne’s attorney, Michael Weinstein states, “We are confident that Ms. Reid’s meritless civil lawsuit in which she represents herself will be promptly dismissed, This is the same sexual assault claim that was fully investigated and dismissed by authorities in South Carolina more than 21 years ago. It is also the same matter that Ms. Reid tried to re-open in 2018 that the South Carolina Solicitor General declined to re-open, suggesting among other things it was ‘not ethical’ to do so.”
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