Metro Boomin’s Accuser Seeks Mistrial After Defense Mentions Sexual History

The proceedings has conscionable begun successful a rape suit against Metro Boomin – but attorneys for the superstar producer’s alleged unfortunate are asking for a mistrial, saying a defence lawyer made improper claims astir her intersexual past during opening arguments.

A assemblage successful Los Angeles national tribunal heard opening arguments connected Tuesday (Sept. 23) for the civil case brought by Vanessa LeMaistre, who alleges she blacked retired aft ingesting Xanax and intoxicant successful Metro Boomin’s workplace during a 2016 signaling league and aboriginal woke up to the shaper (Leland Wayne) raping her.

Metro denies the claims, saying the lawsuit is simply a “classic personage shakedown” that LeMaistre concocted portion hallucinating connected ayahuasca. He has ever maintained that their 2016 intersexual brushwood was consensual – but lawyers for LeMaistre accidental Metro’s squad went excessively acold during opening statements connected Tuesday by arguing that the 2 had besides had consensual enactment earlier that nighttime astatine the signaling studio.

In each intersexual unit trials, determination are strict rules that bounds the defence from alluding to an alleged victim’s intersexual past oregon evident proclivities. Typically, a suspect needs to inquire support from the justice earlier bringing up immoderate intersexual behaviour that is not tied to the circumstantial incidental astatine contented successful a trial.

LeMaistre’s attorneys – led by Michael Willemin of the powerhouse plaintiff’s steadfast Wigdor – accidental successful a mistrial question filed precocious connected Tuesday that Metro’s lawyers did not decently question judicial support earlier making these statements astir their anterior intersexual past (which LeMaistre denies).

“If plaintiff’s counsel was provided just informing and a [hearing] was held, the assertion that plaintiff engaged successful consensual enactment with the suspect anterior to the intersexual battle would person been precluded,” Willemin writes. “And, adjacent if the tribunal made the determination that the assertion of consensual enactment pre-dating the intersexual battle was acold much probative than prejudicial, plaintiff would person known specified accusation was going to beryllium permitted and would surely person addressed it successful plaintiff’s opening statement.”

Willemin says there’s “no imaginable mode to undo” the prejudice that Metro’s opening caused, since jurors cannot unhear this statement. He’s asking Judge R. Gary Klausner to state a mistrial and commencement the full lawsuit implicit again.

Judge Klausner volition apt code this contented earlier the proceedings is acceptable to resume connected Wednesday (Sept. 24). Metro’s lawyers from the steadfast Sanders Roberts did not instantly instrumentality a petition for remark connected the matter.

LeMaistre sued Metro successful 2024, claiming she met the shaper successful Las Vegas successful the outpouring of 2016. LeMaistre says she confided successful Metro astir the caller decease of her 9-month-old son, and that they “bonded implicit the quality of euphony to assistance radical successful their darkest moments.”

But LeMaistre’s content astir her enslaved with Metro allegedly “shattered” the pursuing September, erstwhile the shaper invited her to ticker him enactment successful his California signaling studio. LeMaistre says she had a changeable of intoxicant and fractional a tablet of Xanax, past blacked out, waking up connected a furniture successful a antithetic determination “completely incapable to determination oregon marque a sound” portion Metro raped her.

LeMaistre alleges she became large arsenic a effect of the battle and had an termination successful November 2016. Notably, the suit claims the onslaught is referenced successful Metro’s 2017 opus “Rap Saved Me” with Offset, 21 Savage and Quavo.

The lyrics successful question, rapped by 21 Savage and Offset successful the chorus, are: “She took a Xanny, past she fainted/ I’m from the gutter, ain’t nary changing/ From the gutter, rap saved me/ She thrust maine crazy, person my baby.”

The lyrical notation successful LeMaistre’s suit is surprising, since Metro is simply a euphony shaper and songwriter but does not typically constitute lyrics oregon rap himself. Metro has denied penning the “Rap Saved Me” lyrics, arsenic good arsenic the remainder of LeMaistre’s allegations.

Metro’s presumption is that LeMaistre has transformed a consensual intersexual brushwood into a mendacious communicative of rape successful bid to compression wealth retired of him. He’s focused heavy connected LeMaistre diary entries from erstwhile she was precocious connected ayahuasca successful 2024, successful which she elaborate a “plan” to...