Atlanta rapper Takeoff, who is a member of the hip-hop trio Migos, has been accused of rape in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles by a woman who said she was assaulted at a house party in Encino, California, over the summer.
The lawsuit says the woman, identified in the court papers only as Jane Doe, was assaulted in an upstairs bedroom of the home in June after stating that she did not want to have sex with the rapper, 26, who was born Kirshnik Khari Ball, according to The New York Times.
Credit: Kevin Winter
Credit: Kevin Winter
According to the complaint, the woman was invited by Migos associate DJ Durel to the June 22 party. She noticed during the evening that Ball, 26, was staring at her and he offered her marijuana, which the plaintiff said made her uncomfortable.
After leaving the conversation, the woman told DJ Durel, whose real name is Daryl McPherson, she didn’t want to be intimate with Ball. McPherson offered to take her to his room upstairs, but when Ball ran into them, the two men argued and Ball followed the plaintiff to the bedroom. The suit alleges that Ball raped the woman after she refused his sexual advances.
The woman went to a hospital the same day, where, according to the suit, the staff observed “physical evidence of forceful rape” and alerted the Los Angeles Police Department.
Representatives for Takeoff and Migos did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.
In 2015, the rapper and his bandmates Quavo and Offset were all questioned by police after a concert at Georgia Southern University’s Spring Bling. Quavo and Offset were arrested for felony possession of cocaine, Oxycontin and codeine plus charges of carrying a loaded weapon in a school zone, according to a TMZ report. The charges were later dropped in 2018.
Takeoff, who was born in Lawrenceville, has been an integral part of the group’s platinum-selling albums and hit songs including “Stir Fry,” “Versace” and “Walk It Talk It.”
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