has accused her ex-boyfriend actor of trying to bully her into silence - and shake her down financially - in a new lawsuit filed in Wednesday.
The British musician (born Tahliah Debrett Barnett), 38, officially settled her sexual battery lawsuit against actor LaBeouf, 39, in July 2025, following a protracted five-year court battle.
The lawsuit, filed in 2020, sought $10 million in damages and alleged sexual battery, assault, and emotional distress during the couple's relationship. LaBeouf denied these claims.
The two began dating after meeting on the set of LaBeouf's 2019 semi-autobiographical film Honey Boy, in which Twigs was cast.
Now Twigs, , claims LaBeouf had taken on the same .
'Shia LaBeouf has tried to control Tahliah Barnett for the better part of a decade,' lawyers for FKA Twigs, using her real name, said in legal docs obtained and reviewed by the Daily Mail.
Twigs said that she was responding with litigation against LaBeouf after he made a secret arbitration demand last year trying to get an 'exorbitant' sum of money as punishment over what he called a breach of a past arrangement.
LaBeouf in December demanded money after he said Twigs breached a settlement they reached five years earlier .
The Daily Mail has reached out to attorneys for both parties for further comment on the story and has yet to hear back.
FKA twigs accuses her ex-boyfriend Shia LaBeouf of trying to bully her into silence in a new lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Wednesday
Twigs said in legal docs she is suing 'to right a wrong, and also on behalf of other women who are the victims of sexual and who do not have the resources to speak out and defend themselves from predators.'
After Twigs filed her legal complaint in 2020, LaBeouf acknowledged to The New York Times 'a history of hurting the people closest to' him.
He said, 'I’m not in any position to tell anyone how my behavior made them feel. I have no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, only rationalizations.
'I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years ... I’m ashamed of that history and am sorry to those I hurt.'
Meanwhile LaBeouf is embroiled in further legal turmoil. He was arrested in New Orleans on February 17 on two counts of misdemeanor battery after allegedly getting into a bar fight.
He was then on a misdemeanor simple battery charge, which was reportedly related to the same incident.
The Transformers star's arrests could have potentially scuttled his plans earlier this month to travel to Rome - where his father Jeffrey was being baptized — but LaBeouf was .
