Lawsuit Accuses Kanye West of Drugging and Sexually Assaulting Ex-Assistant During Diddy Studio Session

Mar. 15, 2025

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A lawyer for West did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Saturday, Oct. 12.

A legal representative for West previously denied Pisciotta’sother allegations made in her initial June 2024 complaintto PEOPLE, and added that “Ye will be filing a lawsuit against Ms. Pisciotta.”

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“As plaintiff began to slip into an altered and heavily impaired state, she felt less in control of her body and speech, and that is where plaintiff’s memories of that night escape her,” the complaint reads.

According to the filing, Pisciotta woke up the following day “feeling physically ill and confused” and felt “immense and embarrassment” for not being able to recall what happened after she had the drink, according to the filing.

For years, West’s former assistant thought she got roofied and made a fool of herself at a work event. Much later — after West hired Pisciotta to serve as an assistant and Chief of Staff and do A&R for him — she says the rapper allegedly brought up the night in question for the first time. During the conversation, West told Pisciotta that they “did kind of hook up a little one time,” referring to the evening in the Santa Monica studio where the alleged assault took place.

After Pisciotta allegedly told West she had no memory of the studio session, West laughed and told her that “women love to say they don’t remember,” per the complaint.

According to the amended complaint, Pisciotta allegedly felt “overcome with immense shame, discomfort and utter disgust.”

Elsewhere in the complaint, Pisciotta alleged that in July 2021, during an “album workshop” at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, West “aggressively pounded” on her hotel room door at 6 a.m., woke her up, forced “his way into her room” and said he needed to use her shower because his was out of order. Pisciotta alleges that West later approached her and “dropped his towel,” before “he attempted to forcefully thrust his naked body onto and penis into Plaintiff’s face” and “ignored her pleas to stop.” Per the complaint, West “swiftly left” after saying “sorry” and “went about his day as normal.”

West also faces a separate lawsuit filed in April 2024 from a former employee who claimed that hesuffered “severe discrimination [and] harassment”while working forYeezyand at hisDonda Academy school. A former staffer also filed a lawsuit this week onallegations of emotional distress, retaliation and labor code violations.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.

source: people.com