Hollywood: Vin Diesel accused of sexual battery by former assistant

A former private assistant of Hollywood actor Vin Diesel has accused the Fast and Furious star of sexual assault throughout the filming of Fast Five in 2010.

The former assistant of the motion star has additionally sued him.

The civil swimsuit, filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by CNN, stemmed from a 2010 incident during which Diesel’s former assistant, Asta Jonasson, alleged that Diesel pressured himself on her in a resort suite in Atlanta and masturbated in entrance of her.

The criticism states Diesel ignored Jonasson’s “clear statements of non-consent”, and after she “screamed and ran in direction of the close by toilet” he “pinned her towards the wall together with his physique”, the information channel reported.

“Vin Diesel categorically denies this declare in its entirety,” Bryan Freedman, lawyer for Diesel, wrote in a press release to CNN in a while Friday (December 22, 2023). “This is the primary he has ever heard about this greater than 13-year-old declare made by a purportedly 9 day worker.”

According to stories, she can also be suing the actor’s sister and her firm.

In addition to sexual battery, her lawsuit consists of claims of gender discrimination, unlawful retaliation, emotional misery and wrongful termination, reported BBC.

A lawyer for Jonasson stated in a press release to BBC News that her shopper “seeks to carry Vin Diesel and those that allowed and lined up his sexual assault accountable for his or her egregious actions”.

Who is Vin Diesel?

One of the world’s highest-grossing actors, he’s finest identified for portraying Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick franchise (2000–2013), Dominic Toretto within the Fast & Furious franchise (2001–current), and Xander Cage within the XXX movie sequence (2002-2017).

Born in California, Diesel attended NYC’s Hunter College, the place research in inventive writing led him to start screenwriting.

He wrote, directed, produced, and starred within the quick drama movie Multi-Facial (1995) and his debut characteristic Strays (1997).

He got here to prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties, and first turned identified for showing in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan in 1998.

He adopted up with commercially profitable movies equivalent to Boiler Room (2000), Pitch Black (2000), and The Pacifier (2005). He additionally acted in A Man Apart (2003), Babylon A.D. (2008), The Last Witch Hunter (2015), and Bloodshot (2020).