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   The Atlanta rapper T.I., born Clifford Harris, was sued on Tuesday, along with   
   his wife, Tameka Harris, known as Tiny, by a woman who accused the couple of   
   drugging and raping her after she met them at a Los Angeles nightclub around   
   2005.   
      
   In the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court under California’s   
   Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up Accountability Act, which extended the statute of   
   limitations for sexual abuse claims, the woman is identified only as Jane Doe,   
   a veteran of the U.S. Air    
   Force, who was 22 or 23 years old at the time. She previously gave her account   
   of the alleged assault and its aftermath in an interview with The New York   
   Times in 2021, when she spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her   
   family.   
      
   In her lawsuit, the woman accuses Mr. Harris, 43, and Ms. Harris, 48, of   
   sexual battery, battery, sexual assault, negligence, false imprisonment and   
   intentional infliction of emotional distress, and is seeking damages.   
      
   In a statement provided by a lawyer for the couple, Andrew B. Brettler, Mr.   
   and Ms. Harris denied the accusations, calling the civil suit a shakedown.   
   “This plaintiff has been threatening to file this lawsuit for three   
   years,” the statement said. “   
   For three years, we have emphatically and categorically denied these   
   allegations. For three years we have maintained our innocence and refused to   
   pay these extortionate demands for things we didn’t do.”   
      
   They added, “We are innocent of these fake claims, we will not be shaken   
   down and we look forward to our day in court.”   
      
   Prosecutors in Los Angeles had previously declined to pursue criminal charges   
   against the Harrises in this incident, citing the statute of limitations.   
   “Without the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence being evaluated, the   
   case is declined due to    
   the expiration,” the Los Angeles County authorities wrote in a charge   
   evaluation filing in September 2021.   
      
   That investigation occurred as numerous accusations of sexual abuse and   
   assault surfaced against the couple in news reports and on social media, with   
   a lawyer approaching law enforcement authorities in California and Georgia   
   seeking criminal inquiries on    
   behalf of 11 people who said they were victimized by the Harrises or members   
   of their entourage. At least four women accused the celebrity pair of drugging   
   and sexually assaulting them.   
      
   The couple denied the charges at the time and no charges were ever filed.   
      
   In her lawsuit, the military veteran says she was invited with a friend to the   
   V.I.P. section of a Los Angeles club to meet T.I. and Tiny, a member of the   
   R&B group Xscape, by a member of the couple’s entourage, a man known as   
   Caviar. Ms. Harris, who    
   was not yet married to T.I. at the time, offered the two women a taste of a   
   drink and both sipped it, according to the suit.   
      
   The two women were then invited, along with others, to a hotel room, where   
   they believed the party would continue; the military veteran traveled there   
   with the celebrity couple and her friend rode with Caviar.   
      
   At the hotel, the suit says, the other guests were soon asked to leave, and   
   the veteran was left alone with the couple, who proceeded to shower with her   
   and begin massaging her as she started to feel “extremely dizzy and   
   lightheaded,” according to    
   the suit. “Plaintiff could tell she was experiencing something serious and   
   debilitating that was not a symptom of a typical drink or few drinks.”   
      
      
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