{"id":290112,"date":"2020-03-27T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1135269"},"modified":"2020-03-27T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:38:14","slug":"french-montana-accused-of-sexual-assault-in-new-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/french-montana-accused-of-sexual-assault-in-new-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"French Montana Accused of Sexual Assault in New Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.825211864407\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191021\/rs_634x1024-191121183741-634-French-Montana-me-112119.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"French Montana\" alt=\"French Montana\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">BG027\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28.55579868709\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/french_montana\">French Montana<\/a><\/strong> is being accused of sexual&nbsp;assualt in a new lawsuit filed by an unidentified woman.<\/p>\n<p>In court documents obtained by E! News, a resident of Los Angeles County is suing the rapper (real name <strong>Karim Kharbouch<\/strong>), one of his employees and&nbsp;Coke Boy Records for assault and battery, sexual battery, negligence, negligent hiring and other damages.<\/p>\n<p>According to the plaintiff, the defendants had a &#8220;longstanding practice of inviting women to their recording sessions, or choosing women at bars, and inviting them back to&#8221; a Hidden Hills house.<\/p>\n<p>There, defendants would allegedly, &#8220;supply the women with drinks and drugs, with the purpose of engaging in sexual acts with them, without any regard to whether or not they consented or were able to consent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>E! News has reached out to French Montana&#8217;s rep and attorney for comment on the lawsuit filed this week. As of press time, he has not commented on social media.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>In court documents, the plaintiff also alleges that the defendants &#8220;would sometimes without the women&#8217;s knowledge or consent provide drugs to interfere with the women&#8217;s ability to knowingly consent to sexual activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22\">\n<p>The plaintiff alleges she was sexually assaulted and sexually harassed by French Montana&nbsp;in March 2018.&nbsp;Soon after the alleged incident, the plaintiff said she went to Kaiser Permanente for medical treatment. She reported the alleged sexual assault, a rape kit was administered and she reported the events to police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of this incident, plaintiff has and continues to suffer extreme emotional distress, anxiety, flashbacks and depression,&#8221; court documents stated. &#8220;She was just starting her career as a model and actress, however, the horrific experience has prevented her from continuing that career path.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff is seeking loss of earnings, emotional harm, attorney fees and punitive damages.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.838658146965\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8.5974440894569\">\n<p>French Montana hasn&#8217;t publicly commented on the news. His most recent social media posts were related to the Coronavirus and his latest album titled <em>Montana<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;COKE BOY QUARANTINED MASK,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B-OHMhwpQiY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;to his 12 million followers. &#8220;FREE TO ALL THE FANS THAT STILL HAVE TO WORK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theblast.com\/c\/french-montana-sued-sexual-battery-jane-doe-alleged-rape-la-home-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Blast <\/a>was first to report the news.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1135269\/french-montana-accused-of-sexual-assault-in-new-lawsuit?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BG027\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images French Montana is being accused of sexual&nbsp;assualt in a new lawsuit filed by an unidentified woman. In court documents obtained by E! News, a resident of Los Angeles County is suing the rapper (real name Karim Kharbouch), one of his employees and&nbsp;Coke Boy Records for assault and battery, sexual battery, negligence, negligent hiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-25 20:15:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}