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Hip-Hop Producer Irv Gotti Sued for Sexual Assault

Irv Gotti, the Murder Inc. co-founder credited with first signing DMX, Ja Rule and Ashanti, has been sued for sexual assault in Miami

Hip-hop impresario Irv Gotti, the former Def Jam executive who first signed DMX and later fostered the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti at his Murder Inc. Records label, is the subject of a new sexual assault lawsuit filed in Miami. According to the lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone, the woman alleges Gotti sexually abused her on multiple occasions starting in 2020 after they met through a mutual friend at a poker tournament, and she agreed to join him on a vacation in Saint Martin. The Jane Doe claims Gotti forced her to perform oral sex in an elevator of a Four Seasons hotel in Miami in January 2022 and in an Uber during a subsequent trip to Atlanta that same year.

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