Jurors handed hip-hop producer Metro Boomin a decisive win at his civil sexual assault trial in Los Angeles on Thursday.
After a short deliberation, the panel of five men and three women found that plaintiff Vanessa LeMaistre had failed to prove her claims that the influential musician, born Leland T. Wayne, raped her at Los Angeles County hotel in 2016. Metro Boomin was found not liable on all four causes of action.
In her lawsuit filed last October, LeMaistre alleged that she “blacked out” after ingesting some Xanax and drinking alcohol given to her by Wayne at a recording studio session. She claimed she later woke up in a strange hotel room and was drifting in and out of consciousness as Wayne was having sex with her.
On the witness stand, Wayne vehemently denied the allegations,