Metro Boomin Verdict: Jury Clears Star Producer in Sexual Assault Civil Trial

Metro Boomin has won a verdict clearing him of wrongdoing successful a civilian suit from a pistillate who claimed that helium sexually assaulted and impregnated her successful 2016.

After a three-day proceedings and a conscionable a little deliberation, Rolling Stone reports that jurors connected Thursday rejected allegations from Vanessa LeMaistre, who alleged that the prima shaper (Leland T. Wayne) raped her aft she ingested Xanax and intoxicant astatine his workplace during a signaling session.

Earlier successful the week, Wayne had testified successful the courtroom that determination was “no mode successful the world” helium had assaulted LeMaistre. He claimed their brushwood had been consensual – and that she had concocted her “shakedown” accusations portion hallucinating connected ayahuasca.

“This full suit was calved retired of a cause den successful Peru. In the jungle,” Wayne’s defence lawyer, Justin H. Sanders, said successful his closing argument. “This lawsuit is preposterous.”

In a statement, LeMaistre’s lawyer Michael J. Willemin said:  “Though the ineligible strategy is often stacked against survivors, our lawsuit showed unwavering fortitude passim this trial. We are disappointed successful the result but are arrogant to correspond Ms. LeMaistre and judge that the verdict volition yet beryllium overturned connected appeal.”

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

But arsenic reported by Rolling Stone, Metro’s lawyers centered their defence connected claims that she had decided to aerial those accusations during a 2024 ceremonial Peru successful which she took the psychoactive cause Ayahuasca. At 1 point, jurors saw a handwritten enactment penned during the travel successful which LeMaistre wrote that she would “blow the whistle connected Metro Boomin”; astatine another, she said a request for much than $3 cardinal successful damages had been “given to me” during the Ayahuasca ceremony.

Following the verdict, Metro’s attorneys did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment. But arsenic reported by legal writer Meghann Cuniff, the prima told reporters extracurricular the courthouse: “I’m blessed and gladsome the information prevailed.”