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Soulja Boy Must Pay $4.25 Million for Assault, Sexual Battery of Former Assistant, Jury Finds

Soulja Boy was found liable for assault, sexual battery and harassmentl, with jurors awarding his former assistant $4 million in damages so far.

A California jury found Grammy-nominated rapper Soulja Boy liable for claims he assaulted, sexually battered and harassed a Jane Doe plaintiff while she worked as his personal assistant, lived with him and entered into a sometimes-consensual intimate relationship with him in 2019 and 2020. Her attorney, Ronald Zambrano, painted Way as a brutal boss who regularly raped and beat the woman, subjected her to labor code violations and dressed up in non-prescription “fake glasses” and a suit to lie to jurors about the alleged abuse. In April 2021, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office “declined to file charges due to insufficient evidence to prove the alleged crimes true beyond a reasonable doubt,” an agency spokesperson previously told Rolling Stone.

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