LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles lady has filed a lawsuit alleging that Metro Boomin, a Grammy-nominated producer who has labored with a number of the greatest names in hip-hop and R&B, raped her in 2016 and she or he turned pregnant from the assault.

The producer’s legal professional calls the accusations false and stated the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court docket is “a pure shakedown.”

Vanessa LeMaistre, 38, says within the lawsuit that she turned buddies with Metro Boomin, whose authorized title is Leland Wayne, after the demise of her 9-month-old son. Whereas visiting him in a recording studio months later, she blacked out and woke on a mattress to search out Wayne raping her, the lawsuit alleges.

She discovered she was pregnant from the assault a number of weeks later, the go well with says.

An legal professional for the 31-year-old St. Louis-born producer instantly denied the allegations.

“It is a pure shakedown. These are false accusations,” Lawrence Hinkle II stated in an announcement Wednesday. “Mr. Wayne refused to pay her months in the past, and he refuses to pay her now. Mr. Wayne will defend himself in courtroom. He’ll file a declare for malicious prosecution as soon as he prevails.”

Wayne curated the soundtrack to “Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse” and co-produced many of the songs on the album. His 2022 album “Heroes & Villains,” that includes contributions from John Legend and The Weeknd and Travis Scott, was nominated for a Grammy for greatest rap album. He has additionally labored with Future, Kendrick Lamar, Offset, 21 Savage and A$AP Rocky.

LeMaistre stated within the go well with that she met Wayne within the spring of 2016 at a celebration in Las Vegas and within the months that adopted they met up a number of instances and she or he “believed that that they had bonded over the power of music to assist individuals of their darkest moments.”

Round September, she visited him at a California recording studio the place she was given a shot of alcohol and took half a bar of Xanax.

“The following factor Ms. LeMaistre can recall is waking up on a mattress in a unique location with Wayne raping her and being utterly unable to maneuver or make a sound,” the lawsuit says. ”She was out and in of consciousness for an unknown period of time however awoke once more in some unspecified time in the future to Wayne performing oral intercourse on her.”

At no level was she capable of consent, the lawsuit says.

She discovered she was pregnant a number of weeks later, and there was no query that the kid was Wayne’s, the go well with says. She had an abortion quickly after.

The Related Press doesn’t sometimes title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused until they arrive ahead publicly, as LeMaistre has. She is called within the lawsuit and consented to being publicly recognized via her attorneys.

Her lawsuit alleging sexual battery and gender violence seeks damages to be decided at trial.