American actor Jamie Foxx – known for his roles in Two cops in Miami And Django unleashed – strongly defended himself on Thursday from allegations of sexual assault against him.
“The alleged incident never occurred,” he said Thursday through a spokesperson, who was quoted in Deadline. In 2020, this individual filed a virtually identical lawsuit in Brooklyn, and that case was dismissed shortly thereafter. » He said he was “confident” that the case will once again be closed.
It’s the New York Daily News who revealed the existence of the complaint on Wednesday evening. The plaintiff claims that Jamie Foxx (real name Eric Marlon Bishop) “sexually assaulted” her during a party on the roof terrace of a Manhattan bar-restaurant in August 2015.
According to AFP, the actor is notably accused of having “slipped his hands into the complainant’s underwear and of having placed his fingers in her vagina and her anus”. The bar-restaurant-lounge Catch NYC & Roof and its owner-manager Mark Birnbaum are also targeted by this civil complaint.
Recall that rocker Axl Rose, leader of the rock group Guns N’Roses, was also targeted on Wednesday by a civil complaint for sexual assault, which also allegedly occurred in New York in 1989. The plaintiff – Sheila Kennedy, a former American model and actress – claims to have been “targeted” by the rocker, then at the height of his glory.
With Agence France-Presse