Sean “Diddy Combs has been sued for sexual assault for the second time in as many weeks.
09.11.2023 - 18:45 / thefader.com
Neil Portnow, the former chairman and chief executive of the Recording Academy, has been sued for sexual assault, The New York Times reports. The accusation was filed by Jane Doe in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, who accuses Portnow of drugging and raping her in June 2018. The Recording Academy is also listed as a defendant.
Though the accuser is unnamed, she is identified as an instrumentalist born outside of the United States who lives in New York City and was invited to join the Recording Academy after performing at Carnegie Hall. The woman claims she first met Portnow at an event for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards at the Paley Center for Media in January 2018. In June of that year, Portnow agreed to sit down for an interview for a publication she had started.
The two met at a hotel in New York City, where Portnow invited her to his room, the complaint says. Portnow allegedly offered her wine, which she drank, though Portnow did not consume any himself. She says that she “began to feel woozy" and asked Portnow about the wine, which he allegedly ignored.
When she asked for a taxi to leave, Portnow said that there were none available. The woman soon lost consciousness. She claims that she awoke several times throughout the night to Portnow sexually assaulting her including at least one instance of being "forcibly penetrated." According to the complaint, the woman left the next morning after Portnow departed to attend a meeting.
Portnow's accuser says that he ignored many attempts to contact him after the alleged incident. Months later, she emailed Recording Academy officials and claimed that Portnow had sexually harassed her. A police report was filed against Portnow, the Times reports, but the presiding
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against former Grammy Awards CEO Neil Portnow, accusing him of a 2018 sexual assault, and against the Recording Academy for negligence.The woman, who was not named, filed the lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Manhattan under the Adult Survivors Act.The measure, passed last year, created a temporary window for those who allege sexual assault to file past the state’s usual deadlines.In the lawsuit, the woman, described as an internationally known musician who once played at Carnegie Hall, said she met Portnow in early 2018 and had set up a meeting to interview him at his hotel in New York City later that year.She said he gave her something to drink at the meeting that made her intermittently lose consciousness and that he then proceeded to assault her.A spokesperson for Portnow, who stepped down as the CEO in 2019, said in an email that the accusations were “completely false” and “undoubtedly motivated by Mr.
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