A fresh lawsuit accuses manufacturer Diplo of distributing revenge porn.
The swimsuit, filed Thursday via a Jane Doe in California, claims that the manufacturer, born Thomas Wesley Pentz, allotted sexual pictures and movies of her with out her consent.
Representatives for Diplo didn’t right away reply to demands for remark.
Diplo is an extraordinary manufacturer and DJ who was a family identify for his paintings with Skrillex, Justin Bieber and Usher, amongst many alternative lead acts. He’s additionally a pageant mainstay at each EDM and nation occasions who hosted his personal exhibit on the Stagecoach nation tune pageant in April.
The swimsuit alleges that the lady, who lives in Fresh York, had an ongoing sexual courting with Diplo between 2016 and 2023. “During that time, Plaintiff made it known that she did not want Defendant Diplo recording them engaging in sexual activities without her explicit consent nor did she want him to distribute images and/or videos to third parties and never gave him consent to do so,” the swimsuit states.
Alternatively, the swimsuit claims that during November 2023, a 3rd celebration whom Jane Doe didn’t know previously “told Plaintiff that she was in possession of images and videos of Plaintiff and Defendant Diplo having sex.”
“Between 2018 and 2023, without Plaintiff’s knowledge or consent, Defendant Diplo recorded himself having sex with Plaintiff on numerous occasions and disclosed and/or distributed the images and videos to third parties,” the swimsuit continues. “Defendant Diplo shared the images and/or videos with the third parties via text messaging and Snapchat.”
Jane Doe says within the lawsuit that she submitted a police report back to the NYPD about Diplo in November 2023.
“Plaintiff has and will continue to suffer personal injury from the disclosure and/or distribution of the intimate images and/or videos depicting her genitals and face while she was engaged in sexually explicit activity,” the swimsuit continues, mentioning “extreme and severe emotional distress with physical manifestations, anxiety, depression, and loss of privacy.”
Diplo was once in the past sued for sexual abuse, distributing revenge porn and alternative misconduct via a Los Angeles girl, Shelly Auguste, in 2021. “DIPLO solicited Ms. Auguste for sex when she was underage,” her swimsuit alleges. “Later, he had sex with her, twice, without disclosing that he had sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which he gave to her. When she spoke out about his abusive behavior, he retaliated against her by posting photos of her vagina and breasts on social media without her consent.”
Diplo denied her claims in a 2021 Instagram publish, and in 2022, he received a $1.2-million arbitration ruling that Auguste’s social media posts violated the phrases of a mutual restraining series. Diplo’s lawyer, Bryan J. Freedman, instructed Pitchfork endmost month, “Wes will defend himself, and, just as he has done every time Ms. Auguste has defamed, harassed and attacked him and his family, he will win.”
Auguste’s swimsuit towards Diplo is about for a civil trial in January.