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After Two False Starts, Woman Files Third Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Against Snoop Dogg, Claims New Info Lends ‘Significant Credibility’

 
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Snoop Dogg attends NBC’s “American Song Contest” Week 3 Red Carpet at Universal Studios Hollywood on April 4, 2022 in Universal City, California.

After two false starts, an anonymous woman has again accused rapper Snoop Dogg and adviser Donald “Bishop Don Magic Juan” Johnson of victimizing her through a years-long sex-trafficking scheme, filing a third lawsuit Thursday that her lawyer said is supported by new information.

Identified only as Jane Doe, the woman has sued the men twice before, but her lawyer, Matt E.O. Finkelberg, voluntarily dismissed both, each time with the ability to refile.

Finkelberg said Thursday he has new information that “adds significant credibility and corroboration” to the allegations. His new complaint adds conspiracy to the claims, which include sexual assault, sexual battery, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It also includes new details about other alleged victims, which Finkelberg said “demonstrates how serious our claims are.”

But a spokesperson for Snoop, whose legal name is Calvin Broadus, said the “meritless” lawsuit is “riddled with and predicated upon falsehoods and inaccuracies” and the woman’s “third try.”

Finkelberg describes his client as a professional dancer, model and actress who worked for Snoop and Campbell as well as rappers who toured with them such as Warren G and Kurupt. But an emailed statement from Snoop’s spokesperson said the woman “has never been Snoop Dogg’s employee.”

“As before, this refiled complaint is riddled with and predicated upon falsehoods and inaccuracies,” the statement said, adding that Snoop “looks forward to proving the falsity of these allegations.”

The woman accuses Campbell and Snoop of conspiring to force her and others to have sex with them in exchange for employment, including “dancing and appearing on Defendants’ concerts, promoting Defendants’ shows, hosting Defendants’ shows, and appearing on Defendants’ shows such as GGN.”

The lawsuit alleges this scheme victimizing women dates back “decades” but zeroes in on alleged incidents in 2013, in which the woman says Snoop and Campbell forced her to perform oral sex. It says Snoop didn’t hire her as a “weather girl” for his TV show “GGN” on the Double G News Network because she “refused to willingly and enthusiastically give oral sex … and was unable to orally give him an orgasm.”

After a two-day private mediation over the woman’s claims failed in February, Snoop posted on Instagram, “Gold digger season is here…keep ya guards up.”

Gold Digger

This Instagram post is included in the complaint filed by Snoop Dogg’s anonymous accuser.

Finkelberg filed his first version of the lawsuit in the Central District of California in Los Angeles later that day on Feb. 9, 2022, writing that Snoop posted the message “in direct retaliation” for the woman’s claims. He also mentioned the rape accusations against Snoop in 2005 from makeup artist Kylie Bell, who sued Snoop but later dropped the case. Finkelberg’s lawsuit notes Snoop filed a lawsuit against Bell before she sued, which Finkelberg said he anticipates Snoop will do to his client.

“It is anticipated that SNOOP DOGG will sue Plaintiff JANE DOE for extortion just as he did to Kylie Bell in an effort to intimidate her,” Finkelberg wrote. “Plaintiff claims unlawful retaliation in the event of such lawsuit.”

Snoop’s lawyer, Jennifer Keller of Keller/Anderle in Irvine, California, filed a motion to dismiss that said the lawsuit was filed nearly nine years after the alleged incident “but just days” before Snoop was to perform at the Super Bowl.

The motion was joined with another dismissal motion from lawyers for Snoop’s business entities, but a judge never ruled on them. Instead, Finkelberg filed an amended complaint on March 10, then moved to voluntarily dismiss it on April 6 after the defense lawyers filed new dismissal motions.

Read the full new complaint, below:

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A graduate of the University of Oregon, Meghann worked at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, and the Idaho Statesman in Boise, Idaho, before moving to California in 2013 to work at the Orange County Register. She spent four years as a litigation reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal and one year as a California-based editor and reporter for Law.com and associated publications such as The National Law Journal and New York Law Journal before joining Law & Crime News. Meghann has written for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Bloomberg Law, ABA Journal, The Forward, Los Angeles Business Journal and the Laguna Beach Independent. Her Twitter coverage of federal court hearings in a lawsuit over homelessness in Los Angeles placed 1st in the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards for Best Use of Social Media by an Independent Journalist in 2021. An article she freelanced for Los Angeles Times Community News about a debate among federal judges regarding the safety of jury trials during COVID also placed 1st in the Orange County Press Club Awards for Best Pandemic News Story in 2021.