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Fats Joe is being sued for $20 million by his former hypeman, who has lobbed a litany of sordid claims in opposition to the Bronx rapper. The lawsuitalleges that Joe, born Joseph Antonio Cartagena, participated in intercourse acts with a number of minors of their teenagers, amongst different wild claims.
As initially reported by Selection, Terrance “T.A.” Dixon filed a lawsuit within the U.S. District Court docket Southern District of New York in opposition to the “Lean Again: rapper on Thursday, June 19. Dixon was reportedly Joe’s hypeman for over 15 years, giving him entrance row view of the illicit conduct he described in his 157-page lawsuit.
It’s price noting that Dixon’s lawyer is Tyrone Blackburn, the identical man who’s representing Lil Rodney in his lawsuit againt Sean “Diddy” Combs, which additionally contains some explosive fees in opposition to the disgraced mogul. Nonetheless, Blackburn has developed a rep for representing shoppers with over-the-top claims that aren’t essentially credible.
However Dixon claims that over time Fats Joe coerced him in over 4.000 sexuals acts to maintain him in good “standing inside the Enterprise. In response to Dixon he was pressured “into humiliating conditions, together with intercourse acts carried out underneath duress and surveillance, accompanied by threats of abandonment in overseas international locations if [he] refused compliance.”
Probably the most egregious declare within the lawsuit is its detailing of Fats Joe allegedly taking part intercourse acts with three Jane Does—one 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds. Additionally included within the RICO-claiming lawsuit are longtime Fats Joe associates. Pete “Pistol Pete” Torres and Richard “Wealthy Participant” Jospitre, in addition to Roc Nation.
Dixon’s lawsuit arrives after he and Blackburn had been sued by Fats Joe again in April for slander after alleging on social media that the rapper flew a 16-year-old lady throughout state strains to interact in sexual activity. Joe maintains that Dixon and Blackburn are mainly making an attempt to extort him, allegedly.
Fats Joe is being represented by Joe Tacopina, a legal legal professional who has develop into famed in Hip-Hop circles after representing A$AP Rocky, who acquitted of gun fees and who previous shoppers embody Meek Mill, and Donald Trump. In reponse to the lawsuit in opposition to Fats Joe, Tacopino instructed Selection, “The lawsuit filed by Tyrone Blackburn and Terrance Dixon is a blatant act of retaliation — a determined try to deflect consideration from the civil swimsuit we filed first, which uncovered their coordinated scheme to extort Mr. Cartagena by way of lies, threats, and manufactured allegations.”
For sure, the social media peanut gallery has been going off since information of the lawsuit broke.
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