Chantaize Darius Jeremy Pierce, better known as Shangela, is facing sexual assault allegations after a previous sexual assault lawsuit was dismissed.
Court documents were filed Monday (February 24) in New York by adult film actor Dakota Payne, under his real name Eric Poff, alleging that Shangela and another unnamed male participated in a sexual assault in 2017 in New York City, via EW.
The complaint asks for a jury trial and compensatory damages.
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In the legal docs, Dakota alleges that the assault happened while Shangela was on a break from filming Bianca Del Rio‘s Hurricane Bianca movie in October 2017 in New York City.
While at a Manhattan bar, Dakota alleges he consumed “one or two drinks,” but that “upon information and belief,” now believes he “had his drink ‘spiked’ with a drug while at the bar.” He alleges that he “has no memory of events between consuming the drink and becoming semi-conscious in a hotel room” afterward.
“After Plaintiff started to fade into consciousness, he was bent over a bed being anally penetrated without consent by John Doe with Pierce watching from the corner of the room,” the complaint reads. “Pierce then anally penetrated Plaintiff without his consent. Defendants could not obtain Plaintiff’s consent given his semi-conscious state. After the sexual assault, Pierce sent Plaintiff money via PayPal.”
The complaint alleges that the act violated New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law, which was passed in 2000 and amended in 2022 to include an extension of the statute of limitations.
In March of last year, Rolling Stone published a bombshell article which detailed allegations from five people claiming to either be sexually assaulted by Shangela, or that he had attempted to rape them at different periods between 2012 and 2018.
At the time, Shangela denied the allegations and said in a letter to the publication that the claims were “false and unsupported by any evidence or reliable witness testimony,” noting there were “significant problems with purported accusers’ accounts” and that he “adamantly denies ever engaging in nonconsensual sex.”
In 2023, a production assistant named Daniel McGarrigle, who worked on Shangela‘s We’re Here show, also filed a suit alleging rape and gender violence. The parties reached a settlement in February 2024.
Get more details on the 2024 allegations.
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