It resembles The breakfast club host Charlamagne Tha God may face an upcoming legal battle as he has been revealed to be at the center of a new federal sexual assault lawsuit.
According to HipHopDXthe popular personality is being sued by Jessica Reid who alleged that Charlamagne (legal name Lenard McKelvey) “intentionally, unlawfully and criminally” engaged in “penile/vaginal intercourse with a fifteen-year-old female child” when he was 22-years-old in 2001.
At the time, Charlamagne pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” after admitting to supplying a minor Reid with alcohol and then serving three years of probation. However, Charlamagne’s DNA was reportedly never found in rape kit test results later performed on Reid.
In a statement from the lawsuit, Reid’s attorneys said:
Ms. Reid has tried to get justice, but to no avail. And to make matters worse, everyone Ms. Reid contacted, including iHeartRadio, ignored her and still allowed Charlamagne to speak on their platform. Every time Mrs. Reid turns on the radio and hears his voice, sees him on TV and walks past his books in the shops, she is reminded of what Charlamagne did to her.
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Michael Weinsten, the attorney representing Charlamagne, has since commented in a statement: “We are confident that Ms Reid’s meritorious civil suit in which she represents herself will be promptly dismissed. This is the same sexual assault claim that was fully investigated and dismissed by South Carolina authorities more than 21 years ago. It’s also the same issue Ms. Reid tried to reopen in 2018, which South Carolina’s attorney general refused to reopen, suggesting, among other things, that it was “unethical” to do so.