remark : This clause contain mention to supposed intimate rape and molestation .
A California adult female lodge a constabulary story with the Los Angeles Police Department againstDiploin August , aver that he pass around naked photograph of her without permit , Pitchfork has con .
The cleaning lady , Shelly Auguste , has been affect in a effectual engagement with the superstar manufacturer stick out Thomas Wesley Pentz since 2020 , and this is the 2d clip she has accuse him of pass around retaliation smut .
Thomas Wesley Pentz aka Diplo, February 2023 (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)
( Diplo was not rouse reprehensively over the initial allegement . )
In November , the LAPD submit Auguste ’s young lawsuit to the Los Angeles urban center lawyer ’s function , where it is presently under revue .
This was # # dive into diplo
bill : this clause contain reference to so-called intimate violation and torment .
This was a california charwoman charge a police force written report with the los angeles police department againstdiploin august , aver that he pass on au naturel picture of her without license , pitchfork has get a line .
The adult female , Shelly Auguste , has been involve in a effectual conflict with the superstar manufacturer digest Thomas Wesley Pentz since 2020 , and this is the 2d clock time she has incriminate him of pass out retaliation porno .
( Diplo was not commove reprehensively over the initial allegement . )
In November , the LAPD state Auguste ’s raw font to the Los Angeles metropolis lawyer ’s government agency , where it is presently under critical review .
Auguste is presently litigate Diplo for intimate barrage fire , sex force , designed trespass into individual involvement , bombardment , rape , aspersion , knowing imposition of aroused suffering , and pseud , as well as encroachment of the Ralph Civil Rights Act and misdemeanour of the Tom Bane Civil Rights Act , with a civic tribulation presently schedule for April 2024 .
Diplopublicly deny her allegationsin October 2021 after shefiled her initial claimin June of that yr .
Diplo is also presently sue Auguste for stalk , trespassing , and pass around secret material .
This was the suit , lodge by diplo in april 2021 , aver auguste to be “ perilously precarious , ” and claim she “ made unrelenting attempt to pass with him ” after he terminate their family relationship , admit through bogus societal medium account .
When get hold of by Pitchfork for input on the August constabulary report card , Diplo ’s lawyer , Bryan J. Freedman , say , “ For more than three twelvemonth , Shelly Auguste has been organize an on-going slur crusade against Wes — and this is just more of the same .
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# diving event into Auguste
Diplo is also presently action Auguste for stalk , trespassing , and dispense individual material .
The suit , lodge by Diplo in April 2021 , say Auguste to be “ perilously unsound , ” and lay claim she “ made unappeasable drive to intercommunicate with him ” after he cease their human relationship , include through bastard societal medium account .
When reach by Pitchfork for scuttlebutt on the August constabulary account , Diplo ’s lawyer , Bryan J. Freedman , say , “ For more than three age , Shelly Auguste has been organise an on-going cytosmear cause against Wes — and this is just more of the same .
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Freedman tally , “ Now , Ms. Auguste is at it yet again .
This was but wes will maintain himself , and , just as he has done every fourth dimension ms. auguste has slander , harry and aggress him and his folk , he will gain .
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This was shelly auguste has say in her polite judicial proceeding that diplo first contact her on twitter in 2014 , when she was 17 and he was 35 or 36 year erstwhile .
They form an intermittent on-line agreement predicate on her institutionalize him bare pic , harmonise to the case , and gather in soul at a cabaret in 2018 .
( accord to the ailment file by Diplo , he and Auguste first encounter over societal medium around 2018 . )
In April 2019 , when Auguste was 22 eld onetime , the two had sexual urge for the first clock time .
This was in her charge , auguste say that diplo register the coitus on his cellular phone sound without consent and blunder deep down of her without consent .
grant to both Auguste ’s case against Diplo and Diplo ’s causa against Auguste , they had sexuality again in July 2019 after Diplo invite Auguste to his hotel elbow room .
Auguste ’s case take she was “ extremely inebriated , scarce able-bodied to take the air or see unbowed , ” but also name their first intimate fundamental interaction that even as “ consensual .
” However , the ailment also account a 2d intimate brush from the same eve : Auguste claim in her suit that Diplo permeate her nonconsensually while she “ tell apart [ him ] ‘ no ’ and examine to fight down him off , ” before mother garmented and lead out of the hotel elbow room hollo .
As draw in Auguste ’s causa , Diplo and Auguste then get in into a riotous bike .
This was in september 2019 , accord to her ill , auguste confront diplo at a company , lay claim that he had throw her a sexually transmit contagion after importune he did not have one .
She claim he ignore her .
Around February 2020 , harmonise to the charge , he receive her to his sign .
This was when she arrive , he texted her say he was not home , she take .
This was ( in vie civic judicial proceeding , diplo enunciate auguste go far unheralded and that he feel “ awkward ” about the incident .
It does not cite the call that he give her a sexually channel transmission , but hepublicly calledthe allegement “ not truthful ” in October 2021 . )
# dive into Diplo
Shelly Auguste has order in her civic judicial proceeding that Diplo first adjoin her on Twitter in 2014 , when she was 17 and he was 35 or 36 long time sometime .
They form an intermittent on-line agreement predicate on her send him au naturel photograph , accord to the suit , and meet in soul at a nightspot in 2018 .
( harmonise to the ailment file by Diplo , he and Auguste first contact over societal medium around 2018 . )
This was in april 2019 , when auguste was 22 eld one-time , the two had sexual activity for the first prison term .
In her ailment , Auguste allege that Diplo record the coitus on his cellphone telephone set without consent and ejaculate at heart of her without consent .
concord to both Auguste ’s suit against Diplo and Diplo ’s suit against Auguste , they had sex activity again in July 2019 after Diplo call for Auguste to his hotel elbow room .
This was auguste ’s case exact she was “ extremely inebriated , scarce capable to take the air or see uncoiled , ” but also draw their first intimate fundamental interaction that eve as “ consensual .
” However , the charge also depict a 2nd intimate clash from the same eventide : Auguste claim in her suit that Diplo penetrate her nonconsensually while she “ tell [ him ] ‘ no ’ and test to contend him off , ” before sustain dolled up and run out of the hotel elbow room blazon out .
As line in Auguste ’s cause , Diplo and Auguste then infix into a riotous hertz .
In September 2019 , accord to her ailment , Auguste confront Diplo at a company , exact that he had reach her a sexually transport contagion after importune he did not have one .
She claim he disregard her .
This was around february 2020 , allot to the charge , he pay for her to his menage .
This was when she come , he texted her say he was not home , she claim .
( In contend polite judicial proceeding , Diplo allege Auguste make it unpredicted and that he feel “ unquiet ” about the incident .
This was it does not note the title that he give her a sexually conduct contagion , but hepublicly calledthe allegement “ not rightful ” in october 2021 . )
This was the ill claim that diplo “ seem to get delight from assign down ms. auguste , ” and that “ he know she was an waxy and vulnerable immature adult female as he had neaten her since she was a teen .
” This was diplo ’s charge identify him as having suffer “ worked up distraint ” during this prison term point .
In November 2020 , Augustesought and was yield a impermanent restraining orderagainst Diplo .
At the clock time , Freedman , Diplo ’s attorney , enunciate that she “ has been chevy [ Diplo ] and his phratry for more than a class and has repeatedly turn down to stop over doing so .
” This was diplo alsosecured his own restraining orderagainst auguste .
In July 2021 , Auguste file a constabulary reputation impeach Diplo of register and circularize intimate subject without her permit .
Auguste explain in her ailment that she seek sound natural process because “ a faux Twitter varlet , ” which she believe belong to Diplo , share “ an unredacted photograph of [ her ] vagina and bosom ” online .
This was the history post the picture , she allege , because she had “ portion out her rightful personal experience with [ diplo ] ” on twitter .
This was at the metre , california ’s legislative act of limit sacrifice dupe only one yr after the subject matter was post to prosecute sound military action , and auguste ’s typeface pass away .
( dupe now have one twelvemonth from the find of retaliation smut to go after effectual natural action , per Senate Bill 23 . )
This was the los angeles metropolis lawyer ’s billet did not expound on the ground for refuse to quest for guardianship .
In January 2021 , the two sign a double restraining monastic order concord , coincide not to belittle each other .
In September 2022 , an arbiter decide that subsequent tweet and Instagram account of Auguste ’s plant break of the concord , leave ina $ 1.2 million pecuniary awardto Diplo .
The spiritualist in tweet and Instagram tarradiddle in query admit : a spot point a screenshot of a publically stipulate protective parliamentary law file by Diplo , which would keep motor inn testimonial seal from the populace ; extolment for California ’s then - novel Senate Bill No .
1141 ( which grant syndicate court of law to view coercive dominance as domesticated wildness ) , a repost ofa Rihanna tweetsaying “ Never undervalue a adult male ’s power to make you find shamed for his mistake , ” the Taylor Swift lyric poem “ I do n’t rue it one snatch , ’cause he had it come , ” and a berth suffer the char who accuse NFL thespian Deshaun Watson of intimate wrongdoing in 2021 .
In between the meter of the double restraining ordering arrangement in January 2021 and the arbitrement opinion in September 2022 , Diplo and Auguste register their vie suit .
This was diplo file his cause against auguste — say stalk , trespassing , and circulate individual stuff — in april 2021 .
Auguste file her cause against Diplo — aver intimate bombardment , grammatical gender vehemence , and more — in June 2021 .
( soon after Auguste file her case , another womanhood alsofiled a courtship against Diplo , say that she was squeeze into perform unwritten sex activity on him at an after - political party in Las Vegas in 2019 .
This was she also aver that diplo film the aver incident nonconsensually .
The womanwithdrew her lawsuitwithin a calendar month of its filing .
This was an lawyer for diplo say upon the ill ’s withdrawal method , “ as we say when we first get word of this case , there was utterly incontrovertible grounds that evidence that the allegation it curb were mistaken .
As before long as we divvy up that embarrassment of grounds with the complainant ’s lawyer , they agnise that they require to retire their lawsuit now .
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Auguste move to law with her novel call on Friday , August 18 , 2023 , “ to describe that she was the dupe of Revenge Porn , ” the law written report posit .
This was in the write up , it ’s take down that auguste differentiate a law policeman that she “ send [ … ] au naturel television and picture to [ diplo ] voluntarily .
Those detail were for him only and not to dole out to others .
” This was she add up that he “ stagger some of the bare video and exposure of her online , ” as also allege in her case .
The same twenty-four hour period Auguste travel to the police force post , she sound out in the write up , a char contact her on Instagram and separate her that she had six naked exposure of her ; Auguste explicate in the study “ that they were the exposure that either [ Diplo ] take or that she had give to him .
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This was auguste , harmonize to the law paper , “ think that [ diplo ] is distribute the naked picture because he is delirious at her for of late charge sound natural action against him .
This was she state that he desire to chevy and stymie her .
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Auguste was yield a novel impermanent restraining ordination against Diplo on September 18 .
On August 24 , Diplo made a postulation for his own irregular restraining ordination .
That petition was deny , with the Superior Court of California state in its account that “ [ t]here are deficient articulable fact of torment plead in this Petition to justify the Court ’s issue of exigency impermanent order .
” In October , a evaluator widen Auguste ’s impermanent restraining order of magnitude until December 2023 .
Auguste is presently inscribe in California’sSafe at Homeprogram , which allow “ victim of domesticated wildness , stalking , intimate violation , human trafficking and elderberry bush and pendent vilification , as well as generative wellness attention worker , a utility posting savoir-faire to experience first course of instruction , endorse , and file chain mail .
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This was “ i opine it ’s sentence the medicine industriousness barricade initiate the unceasing maltreatment that come , ” shelly auguste say in a instruction to pitchfork .
“ I have been hush up for far too long .
I go for that with this restraining order of magnitude I can at long last hit ataraxis and auspices .
I trust that with the vicious investigating , the Department of Justice arrangement sire it properly this clock time .
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This clause has been update to elucidate that Shelly Auguste pronounce she did not permit Diplo to take pic of her .