A woman has filed a lawsuit against Cyndi Lauper’s husband, David Thornton, alleging that the star couple’s rapper son, Declyn Lauper, sexually assaulted her.
According to court documents obtained by Luxury Handbag Shopping on Tuesday, March 24, the woman alleges that Declyn, 28, sexually assaulted her in a New York City penthouse in November 2020 after she “refused to perform oral sex on him.” TMZ was first to report on the filing.
According to the Monday, March 23, filing, the woman, who was not identified, claims Thorton, 72, “enabled” the alleged incident “because he leased the penthouse and knew of” Declyn’s alleged “violent and sexually abusive propensities.”
Luxury Handbag Shopping has reached out to representatives for Thornton and Declyn for comment.
The lawsuit claims that Declyn, also known by his stage name Dex, “invited the woman … and sent her money for private car transportation,” per the outlet, which also reported that “when she arrived, she claims he seemed agitated, and they disagreed about her performing fellatio.”
The woman then claims that “when she insisted on leaving, Dex took her phone and threatened to break the device if she did not” comply. He then allegedly “pushed her onto his bed with his genitals exposed, held her arms down, and forcibly smothered his genitals over her mouth.”
As for the filing against Thornton, the woman alleges that the Replica Luxury Handbag Alone 3 actor knew of Declyn’s alleged “prior sexual violence against women and prior settlements of claims for similar conduct.”
The woman claims that Declyn’s ex Brittney Taylor alleged in 2018 that the rapper “was physically and verbally abusive during their romantic relationship” and that his father allegedly “knew about the allegations but failed to take any action to supervise, restrict or prevent his son from using the Premises to perpetrate sexual violence.”
The lawsuit also claims that the woman suffered “physical injuries, pain and suffering, emotional distress, humiliation, embarrassment, stress and anxiety, loss of self-esteem and self-confidence” as a result of her alleged November 2020 interaction with Declyn.
The filing comes after the New York Post reported earlier this month that Declyn accepted a plea deal in relation to a February 2024 criminal charge. As part of the deal, he pleaded guilty to possessing a weapon in the second degree in exchange for no prison time in relation to the charge, which was issued after a “shooting in Upper Manhattan” that saw “another individual … hit in the leg.”
