Kanye West has been accused of ‘gagging’ and choking America’s Next Top Model alumna Jenn An until she blacked out, in a new federal lawsuit.
An is suing both West and Universal Music Group for gender-motivated violence over an incident she claims occurred during a music video shoot in 2010.
She claims that the experience felt more like ‘pornographic gagging/deep throat/BDSM fetishes’ than like filming a music video.
In her legal filing, she alleges that West, 47, placed her on a chair and instructed the director to put the camera on her – then choked her.
West then purportedly ‘smothered’ An’s face with his hands and ‘gagged her to emulate forced oral sex,’ she asserted in court documents obtained by TMZ.
The new legal case comes a month after West’s ex-assistant Lauren Pisciotta accused him of drugging and raping her at a Diddy party in her own lawsuit.
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for West for comment.
Kanye West has been accused of ‘gagging’ and choking America’s Next Top Model alumna Jenn An until she blacked out, in a new federal lawsuit; West pictured this March
An is suing both West and Universal Music Group for gender-motivated violence over an incident she claims occurred during a music video shoot in 2010; An is pictured that year
An claims her alleged encounter with West took place while shooting a music video at New York’s Chelsea Hotel for his song In For The Kill with LaRoux.
West only featured on a remix of the track – not the original version – and he and An are not seen in the final cut of the music video.
In her lawsuit, An says she was hired to appear in the music video in 2010, the year after she was a contestant on America’s Next Top Model.
She claims West enlisted her for the project by selecting her from a lineup of women, adding that he allegedly said: ‘Give me the Asian girl.’
Her legal documents assert she was dressed in skimpy lingerie during the shoot, with West supposedly telling her: ‘That’s why I chose you.’
An accuses West of seating her on a chair opposite him, instructing the director to train the camera on her, then choking her.
She claims he then ‘smothered’ her face using his hands and ‘rammed several fingers down her throat, continuously moved them in and out, and gagged her to emulate forced oral sex’ for longer than one minute.
According to An’s lawsuit, West shouted: ‘This is art. This is f***ing art. I am like Picasso,’ during the filming of the In For The Kill video.
West is pictured performing at The Cosmopolitan grand opening in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve 2010, the year An alleges the incident took place
An claims her alleged encounter with West took place while shooting a music video at New York’s Chelsea Hotel for his song In For The Kill with LaRoux
In her lawsuit, An says she was hired to appear in the music video in 2010, the year after she was a contestant on America’s Next Top Model; pictured in a publicity still for the reality show
An also alleges that LaRoux later told a friend that she had witnessed ‘upsetting, unsettling’ conduct during the shoot.
Universal Music Group is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit, with An claiming the record company and other ‘high-profile figures’ in the music industry attempted to ‘bury’ the alleged incident after the fact.
Last month, West’s former assistant Lauren Pisciotta amended a prior lawsuit to allege that he drugged and raped her at a Diddy party.
Pisciotta, an influencer and former OnlyFans personality, originally sued West in June, accusing him of stalking her and sexually harassing her while she was employed by him in 2021 and 2022.
However, she updated the lawsuit in October, and the 88-page document obtained by DailyMail.com contained several more allegations.
She accused him of throwing purportedly notorious sex parties, forcing employees to draw swastikas and expressing neo-Nazi views.
Pisciotta claims West also wrongfully terminated her employment and then failed to pay her $3 million severance package – after he previously allegedly bragged to Jay-Z that he had promised her a $4 million annual wage.
