She had enough sense to text an S.O.S. to her friend, but was too tipsy to press Send.
The drink-and-drug cocktail packed too much of a punch, leaving her comatose as rapper Rick Ross’s 42-year-old bodyguard Nadrian James (and possibly others) allegedly violated her, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on September 18.
“It was at least [James] and maybe others—we haven’t tested everything yet,” the alleged victim’s attorney, Okorie Okorocha, told The Daily Beast, referring to the dress and underwear that's now been tagged as evidence.
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The complaint tees up its accusations against Ross, his record label Maybach, and Warner Music Group, by claiming the victim suffered from being drugged and raped by Ross’s bodyguard “and possibly others.” It goes on to say that both record companies are on the hook for fostering “an environment in which drugs and rape were not only tolerated and condoned but also encouraged.”
Multiple attempts made by The Daily Beast to Rick Ross and Nadrian James’s criminal attorneys, reps and relatives were not returned.
Both Ross and James have plunked down exorbitant bail sums to to be free while facing an unrelated charge in June of allegedly kidnapping and pistol-whipping two groundskeepers at Ross’s 235-acre palatial estate in Fayetteville, Georgia.
The woman, who is not named in court papers, says the alleged attack occurred back on February 7 inside L.A.’s posh W Hotel.
Okorocha is repping the twentysomething Los Angeles-based woman, known as Jane Doe in court papers, and filed a graphically detailed civil lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court last week, demanding the rapper and his bodyguard be held accountable for the alleged attack.
“It could have been a gang rape because she only remembers very little of the incident,” Okorocha said.
The swaggering Ross has rapped about drugged women before—on his collaborative track “U.O.E.N.O.,” he spit: “Put Molly up in her champagne, she ain’t even know it, I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it.” After some public outcry Ross apologized, stating, “To suggest in any way that harm and violation be brought to a woman is one of my biggest mistakes and regrets.”
In the lawsuit, the woman says she thought she was meeting Ross and his crew to apply for a job.
According to the civil rape complaint, Jane Doe met Ross’s muscle, Nadrian James, two years ago in Fresno, California, during a concert. They “exchanged phone numbers” and over time stayed in touch by texting and chatting on the phone.
But Okorocha, who described Doe as being “very attractive,” says the woman turned to James—whom she knew only by his nickname “Black”—for job prospects and maintains they “were never sexually intimate” before the alleged attack.
“She was talking about doing different things like promotions and possibly working for [Ross’s Maybach] record label,” Okorocha said.
Fast-forward two years and on February 6, James allegedly reached out to the woman to see if she would like to attend “an industry party” hosted by Rick Ross, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II.
The woman turned him down “because it was late at night and she had no interest in going to his hotel room late at night…she wanted to hang out during daylight with others present,” according to the complaint.
The following day, though, the woman accepted an invite to tag along with Ross and his crew to the Cannabis Cup in San Bernardino, California. The woman hoped a friend would join her on Ross’s party bus, but the other girl flaked “at the last minute.”
Doe decided to go stag and arrived at the W Hotel. While waiting at the bar for James to do errands, she downed “a single cocktail,” according to the complaint.
Around 6 p.m. Doe joined James, a DJ, Rick Ross, three security guards, another entourage member and the driver—all of whom allegedly smoked dope on the ride to Cannabis Cup, according to the complaint.
In the lawsuit, the woman claims James boasted about the extra dedication he gave to his celebrity boss. He allegedly told Doe he was ordered to “hang out with music performers and groupies to network and carry on the public persona… which included drinking, smoking marijuana, and hanging out with beautiful women.”
Once at the festival, Ross was snapped toking what appears to be a briar of bud burning from a makeshift champagne bottle.
Backstage, Ross and his cannabis clique popped his signature Bel Aire bubbly and Jane Doe says she was handed a flute. She says she “had only one glass the entire evening.”
The same ensemble cast returned to Ross’s van and they drove home.
That’s when the curtains came down on the party.
James allegedly offered the woman some more liquor. This time it was Ciroc vodka, according to Okorocha, and the woman accepted.
But before she took hold of the cup something queer occurred, the complaint alleges. James “turned away from [Doe] and held the cup and bottle out of her view.”
It was then that the woman is certain that James “drugged [her] beverage.”
Within 10 minutes after drinking the mystery hooch from the cup, Doe “began feeling intensely dizzy and ill.”
Apparently, the woman asked and received water but “it made her even sicker,” the complaint says. And then she “blacked out and lost all consciousness.”
Two hours elapsed before the van arrived back at the W Hotel. According to the complaint, Doe remembers “[James] telling her to get out of the van, and gave her his hotel room key and told her to go there to feel better.”
Staggering to James’s hotel room, Doe felt the situation was becoming dire and she attempted to text her friend “but was unable to do so because she lost consciousness again before [the text] could be sent,” according to the complaint.
The woman says she slipped in and out of consciousness and at one point remembered “[James] close the door” and then “being up next to her on the bed and smacking her buttocks,” according to the complaint.
Okorocha says the couple were not alone. “There was a handful of people in the room at one point and she only remembers two second excerpts,” he said. “She really didn’t know what was happening… she could see some of what was happening but couldn’t move.”
The next morning, the woman says she discovered signs she had been raped, according to the lawsuit.
The complaint details how the woman came to around 8 a.m., when James—who was feasting on room service—allegedly told her “nothing happened and she just passed out.” Her clothes “had been jostled,” the complaint states "and appeared to have been put on by someone other than [her].”
Still feeling sick, she proceeded to the bathroom where she discovered “a lot of discharge” in her vaginal area. After she came out of the bathroom the woman says she confronted James. He allegedly shot back that she was getting carried away and was simply drunk. The bodyguard, the complaint says, “seemed very uncomfortable and defensive as if he were hiding something.”
At a juice bar later that day, Doe met a girlfriend and told her “she suspected she had been drugged and raped” the night before and considered calling the cops. Her friend frowned on that because Doe “had no memory of what happened.”
During a subsequent visit to the bathroom, Doe, according to the complaint, detected a “scented lubricant” in her anus and experienced “pain and bleeding.”
Doe claims she had refrained from vaginal intercourse for “over a year when she broke up with her boyfriend” and the complaint noted, “[Doe] never had anal sex in her entire life.”
Four days passed and since the symptoms failed to recede, Doe went to an ER and was treated by a female nurse, who told her “she thought she had been raped,” according to the complaint.
Emotionally stricken, the alleged victim skipped town to Texas to be with her sister and it was there that she was in tatters (even becoming “suicidal”), especially after some of her sister’s friends made jokes about anal sex.
The woman then confided to them what had allegedly happened during her “job interview” with Rick Ross and company and her friends encouraged to contact authorities. She ultimately was directed to an LAPD detective who, the papers say, encouraged her to file a report in Texas.
Meanwhile, a friend phoned Nadrian James and allegedly confronted the bodyguard “about the drugging and raping,” the complaint says. The court papers say James told Doe’s friend “that he would help [her] with money if she needed it but only if she did not contact a lawyer.”
On Tuesday, Rick Ross released a statement distancing himself from his bodyguard, Nadrian James:
“It has been brought to my attention that serious allegations have been made against an independent contractor, whose services I use often. And while I am not directly involved or implicated, as a man and a father, I take this very seriously.”
He went on to say:
“I don’t believe any woman’s safety should be compromised and she should never be forced to do anything outside of her will, regardless of the circumstances. While I personally have no knowledge of the specifics surrounding these allegations, it is my hope that this is rectified quickly and with sensitivity.”
Okorocha says that Ross has known about the alleged rape for some time, and that he had been in touch with Ross’s reps in what he described as “brief talks” to reach a possible accord out of court.
“Their position was: ‘Show me all your evidence and bring it over here and we’ll decide if it’s rape,’” Okorocha recalled. “I told them ‘If I’m going to bring evidence I’m going to bring it to a court of law. We’re not going to do the trial in your office.’”
“Today is not the first time [Ross] found out,” Okorocha said on Tuesday. “He’s known for a while about the rape allegations.”
