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Country singer Jimmie Allen has been hit with a second lawsuit alleging sexual assault, less than a month after Allen’s manager filed a suit against him for rape.
Allen’s second accuser, identified as Jane Doe 2, filed a lawsuit Friday in Tennessee demanding a jury trial while claiming that the musician filmed a sexual encounter she had with him secretly, without her consent, according to the complaint obtained by USA TODAY. The anonymous accuser also claimed Allen continued pursuing sexual contact with her after she told him she no longer gave consent.
USA TODAY has reached out to Allen’s reps and his attorney for comment.
Allen denied the claims in the previous lawsuit, alleging the relationship was consensual. Both lawsuits follow Allen and his wife Alexis Gale announcing in April that they’re separating – and have a baby on the way.
Here’s what to know about the lawsuits filed against Allen.
Second accuser files lawsuit for sexual assault, filming without consent
In the lawsuit filed Friday, the second accuser says she met Allen on a flight to Nashville on May 1, 2022, and gave his bodyguard her phone number later on.
After a night out and couple months of communication, she said she agreed to meet with Allen at a hotel in Las Vegas, where the singer assured her she’d have her own room. At the time, Allen had made claims about being in love with her and said he was separated from his wife, according to the lawsuit.
She said she joined Allen in his bedroom “willingly,” but things took a turn.
“He told her he would respect her request” to have sex with a condom, the suit said. “Yet, as their encounter progressed, Allen penetrated Plaintiff during sex with his penis and without a condom. Allen told Plaintiff he wanted to get her pregnant. Plaintiff said no,” the lawsuit says.
Allen refused to stop and passed out on the bed afterward, according to the complaint.
That Allen has now been accused by a second person gives additional salt to the first case against him, says attorney Elizabeth Fegan, who is representing both accusers and previously brought sex trafficking claims against Harvey Weinstein.
“It gives corroboration or veracity to the fact that Allen has engaged in a series of predatory sexual acts,” Fagen tells USA TODAY.
“If you say ‘no’ during the course of sexual relations, the other person has to stop,” Fagen says. “So you can set boundaries at any time during the course of physical touch. And it doesn’t matter how far along you are.”
As Jane Doe 2 was leaving the room after the encounter, she alleged she saw Allen’s phone in the closet and discovered it was filming, aimed at the bed. She said she took his phone and turned it in to her local police department when she returned home, who said they would report it to the Las Vegas police.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police confirmed to USA TODAY that a report was completed.
Jimmie Allen sued for rape, sexual assault by former manager in May
Allen was sued by another woman alleging he raped and sexually abused her while she worked on his management team.
The suit, filed in Tennessee court May 11, refers to the plaintiff as Jane Doe throughout the documents. Other defendants named in the suit include Allen’s management company Wide Open Music, its founder Ash Bowers and William Bowers Management.
Country star says it was ‘consensual’:Jimmie Allen accused of rape by former manager
In the suit, the plaintiff alleges the country music artist raped her while she was incapacitated following a taping of an “American Idol” episode in March 2021. She also alleges Allen “manipulated and used his power over Plaintiff’s job to sexually harass and abuse her over the course of the next 18 months” and that “it was made clear to Plaintiff that she would lose her job if she complained.”
Through a statement provided by his attorney Andrew Brettler, Allen said he and the plaintiff had a consensual sexual relationship and called the allegations “extremely damaging.”
“It is deeply troubling and hurtful that someone I counted as one of my closest friends, colleagues and confidants would make allegations that have no truth to them whatsoever,” Allen said in the statement. “I acknowledge that we had a sexual relationship — one that lasted for nearly two years. During that time she never once accused me of any wrongdoing, and she spoke of our relationship and friendship as being something she wanted to continue indefinitely.”
The alleged rape happened following a dinner with Allen. “She lost consciousness and awoke naked in her hotel room several hours later, with Jimmie Allen insisting she take Plan B as soon as possible,” the suit says, adding that she “realized she had lost her virginity through no choice of her own and felt she had betrayed her faith.”
After the incident, Allen continued to sexually harass the plaintiff, the suit says, opening a pornography website on her work computer, grabbing her breasts and buttocks and putting his hand down her pants in public. He also allegedly videotaped several of their encounters.
The suit says the plaintiff had thoughts of suicide as a result of the alleged abuse. When she told her boss about the alleged rape and abuse, she says she was fired.
The plaintiff is suing Allen for sex-trafficking, battery, assault, false imprisonment and intentional and negligent inflictions of emotional distress. She’s also suing Bowers and the management company for participation in a venture engaged in sex trafficking; gross negligence; negligence; negligent failure to warn, train or educate and intentional and negligent inflictions of emotional distress.
Contributing: Charles Trepany, USA TODAY; Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean
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