*A woman being sued by Snoop
Dogg for extortion after she claimed
the rapper and his associates sexually
assaulted her has now filed a lawsuit
against Dizzle in Los Angeles Superior
Court, cementing her previous allegations
that he and several associates raped her
in his dressing room following a Jan.
2003 taping of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel
Live,” reports TheSmokingGun.com.
In the lawsuit filed Friday, Kylie
Bell, an Emmy Award-winning makeup
artist for her work on HBO’s “Six Feet
Under,” claims that she was left
incapacitated after drinking what
a Snoop associate told her was
champagne. According to the
complaint, after Bell, 36, was drugged,
she was sexually assaulted by Snoop
and four of his homies.
Bell seeks $25 million in combined
damages and has named Kimmel’s show,
ABC, and its parent company Walt Disney
as defendants alongside Snoop. She says
that the network is partly to blame for the
attacks because his dressing room
was stocked with “large quantities”
of champagne and marijuana during
the week the rapper co-hosted
Kimmel’s show.
Bell also claims to have seen
Snoop “snorting cocaine powder” on the
final night of his Kimmel gig, which came
during the show’s premiere week on ABC.
The morning after the alleged
incident, Bell claims that she told
family members about the sexual assault,
but was advised not to go to the police
because of Snoop’s supposed Crip
affiliation. Four months later, according
to the complaint, Bell called the Kimmel
program “and told them that she had been
sexually assaulted at the show” and was
contacting the police to file a report.
Bell says she then began having her
living expenses paid through an ABC
investment subsidiary. After those network
payouts stopped, she says Snoop began
paying Bell’s expenses while his lawyers
began negotiations with the woman’s
attorneys. According to Bell’s complaint,
the two sides entered into mediation last
October, but “were unable to settle the
dispute at the financial amount
recommended by the mediator.”
But on Jan. 6, nearly a month after
Snoop filed his extortion complaint against
the woman and her lawyers, attorneys for
both sides “agreed to a settlement of this
matter, at a figure less than the figure
recommended by the mediator,” according
to Bell’s lawsuit. But that apparent deal fell
through on Jan 18, the complaint states,
when the rapper’s insurance company refused
to “pay a portion of the compensation
previously promised” by the Snoop’s legal
team. Ten days later, Bell filed her lawsuit,
claiming that the alleged attack caused
“serious emotional distress and anxiety,”
left her under the care of a therapist and
psychiatrist, and resulted in a September
2003 psychiatric hospitalization.
credit: daveyd.com
