Two months after Nelly was accused of sexually assaulting a Seattle, Washington student on a tour bus, two other women have come forward to make sexual misconduct allegations against the rapper.
According to The Daily Beast, Karen K. Koehler—the lawyer who represented the 22-year-old Seattle accuser Monique Greene—was recently contacted by two other women (Jane Doe's 1 and 2) who claim that Nelly assaulted them. Court papers filed this week detail the encounters they both had with the 43-year-old (real name Cornell Haynes Jr.)
Jane Doe 1 claims she and a friend bought VIP tickets to see Nelly and take a photos with him backstage. After the meet and greet, Nelly had his security team invite them back to a VIP area to hang out. Once they arrived, then invited them to an afterparty and that's when things went south. The accuser says after spending some time talking, Nelly began rubbing her leg and put his hand up her dress, despite knowing she was married and never being given permission to touch her. When she firmly pushed his hand away, he allegedly responded with, “Hold on, hold on, it doesn’t need to be like that.” After several attempts to stop her from leaving the room, security came to the door giving her a way of escape.
Jane Doe 2 says she met Nelly backstage at a show in Essex, England for pictures. According to the lawsuit, he asked her to stay behind so they could talk further, but later asked to speak to her in a private shower room while her friends stayed behind in a separate room. She says once she and Nelly were alone, he pulled down his pants and began masturbating in front of her while asking to have sex. Jane Doe 2 says he then forced his penis into her mouth, causing her to run out of the room shocked and afraid. Nelly, according to the documents, told her "I will find you," before she and her friends left the area.
Koehler says one of the alleged victims is a military mom in a committed relationship, and the other is a young English mom "who doesn’t want to be haunted by happened to her."
“They didn’t ask for this,” Koehler tells The Daily Beast. “You’re hanging out with the artist and it’s fun...and then things change in an instant.”
Koehler also confirmed that “more than two” other women have reached out with sexual assault allegations against Nelly dating back to the early 2000s, but have asked that their stories remain private for now.
Back in October, Nelly was arrested in Seattle after Greene told police that she had been raped by him on his tour bus. Nelly denied the charges, and prosecutors later dropped the case once Greene refused to testify.
