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DeMario Jackson: Full Exclusive Interview
Content warning: This communicative discusses sexual assault and rape.
Bachelor Nation star DeMario Jackson has been accused of sexually assaulting 2 women successful a caller lawsuit.
According to tribunal documents filed connected Sept. 20 and obtained by E! News, the 35-year-old is being sued by 2 people, identified lone arsenic Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, who allege they were raped by Jackson successful abstracted incidents aft going connected dates with him. Both women accidental successful the ailment that they "suffered injury, damage, loss, and harm to her/their assemblage and mind," arsenic good arsenic "personal penetration and humiliation."
Last year, prosecutors reviewed the accusations but declined to prosecute Jackson owed to "insufficiency of the evidence," according to a missive of declination from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
In a connection to E! News, Jackson's attorney, Walter Mosely, called the allegations "completely unfounded," adding, successful part, "In the days to come, we volition merchandise the grounds we shared with the constabulary astatine the clip of the alleged incidents. Unfortunately, DeMario and I volition person to instrumentality up this combat again to wide his name. Like before, we volition person aforesaid name-clearing result."
Per the caller lawsuit, Doe 1 archetypal met Jackson done a dating app and went connected respective dates with him earlier helium allegedly crashed her nighttime retired with friends connected Feb. 16, 2018. At the time, Jackson "appeared intoxicated" and "began making a scene" successful beforehand Doe 1's friends, according to the complaint.
"Sensing that the concern would escalate, Jane Doe 1 decided to diffuse the occupation by separating the Defendant from the Public and her friends," the suit reads. "She brought the Defendant to her location to 'sleep it off.'"
Though Doe 1 told Jackson "that determination would beryllium nary intersexual enactment betwixt them" erstwhile they initially arrived astatine her apartment, she said the world prima "flung his assemblage connected apical of her" erstwhile she began falling dormant successful bed. In the complaint, Doe 1 alleges Jackson raped her aft she told him to halt and attempted to propulsion him distant aggregate times.
Doe 1 says she demanded Jackson permission her location pursuing the alleged assault. The adjacent day, she and a person went to the UCLA Rape Trauma Center, where she was examined arsenic portion of a rape kit procedure, according to the complaint.
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"Due to the intersexual battle Plaintiff Jane Doe 1 has occupation feeling safe, suffers from changeless anxiety, and experiences problems sleeping," the ailment reads. "The intersexual battle herein has been by acold the astir traumatic acquisition successful her life."
In the lawsuit, Doe 2 besides alleges she was raped aft rebuffing Jackson's advances. She said successful the tribunal documents that she was connected a day astatine Jackson's location connected July 7, 2020, erstwhile helium led her to his chamber and began taking disconnected her clothes.
When Doe 2 told him she didn't privation to instrumentality things further due to the fact that she was connected her period, Jackson became "incessant astir wanting to person sex," according to the complaint. Doe 2 said successful the suit that she yet "gave in to the pressure," but erstwhile she asked Jackson to stop, helium allegedly "held her down" and raped her.
Per the complaint, Doe 2 besides went to a rape trauma halfway for investigating pursuing the alleged assault. She says she has since been successful therapy and "remains traumatized."
The women are seeking damages arsenic they "continue to beryllium prevented from performing regular activities and obtaining the afloat enjoyment of life; volition prolong nonaccomplishment of net and earning capacity, and person incurred and volition proceed to incur expenses of aesculapian and intelligence treatment, therapy and counseling," according to the lawsuit.
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Their attorney Keith M. Davidson tells E! News successful a statement, "These women who person travel guardant with their fearfulness stories of however they were brutally sexually assaulted by Mr. Jackson are the latest brave victims to stock their stories of however a almighty antheral utilized his personage presumption to manipulate, intimidate and soundlessness them. They, similar truthful galore different victims successful the #metoo reckoning, volition beryllium soundless nary more. Justice indispensable beryllium served."
Jackson archetypal roseate to fame successful 2017 erstwhile helium vied for Rachel Lindsay's affections connected the 13th play of The Bachelorette. He went connected to look on Bachelor successful Paradise, during which he sparked an interior investigation into the amusement implicit behaviour betwixt himself and Corinne Olympios. Warner Bros. ultimately cleared the amusement and its producers, saying footage from acceptable "did not enactment immoderate complaint of misconduct by a formed member."
After the investigation, Jackson told E! News that the full ordeal had been "the hardest 11 days of my full life."
"I was precise upset, but my dada kept maine calm," helium said. "At the extremity of the day, men lie, women lie. But the portion evidence... you can't beforehand connected tape."
For free, confidential help, telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-4673 oregon sojourn rainn.org.
