An anonymous woman filed a lawsuit against French Montana on March 26, 2020, claiming he sexually assaulted her at a house party.
Court documents, per The Blast, confirmed the case was dismissed on March 3, 2022. Both parties reached a settlement in the days before the lawsuit was set to go to trial. “The court and counsel confer regarding the status case,” a new court order stated. “Counsel informs the court the parties have reached a settlement.”
According to Variety, the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, said she went to the rapper’s Hidden Hills, California, home at approximately 6 a.m. on March 28, 2018, after hanging out with him and his business partner at a recording studio. She claimed the two men convinced her to take a shot at the party even though she didn’t want to, and she blacked out soon after.
Doe recalled being in a bedroom and seeing several men, including Montana, coming in and out of the room. She said in the suit that she was incapacitated and unable to give consent.
The woman claimed in the lawsuit that she had pain her pelvic area and believed she had been raped while intoxicated. She left the house and went to a nearby hospital for a rape kit, which confirmed the presence of semen, according to Variety. She said she also reported the alleged incident to the police.
Doe alleged that a then-34-year-old Montana and his business partner have “a long-standing practice of inviting women to their recording sessions, or choosing women at bars, and inviting them back to the Hidden Hills house … with the purpose of engaging in sexual acts with them, without any regard to whether or not they consented, or were able to consent,” per The Blast.
The woman filed the paperwork against Montana, his business partner and the Grammy nominee’s company, Coke Boy Records. She was seeking damages for extreme emotional distress, anxiety, flashbacks and depression. The case has since been dismissed.
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If you or anyone you know has been sexually abused, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). A trained staff member will provide confidential, judgment-free support as well as local resources to assist in healing, recovering and more.
