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Jamie Foxx, an American actor, has denied s**ual assault charges after being sued over an alleged 2015 encounter.
In a new lawsuit, the Oscar winner, 55, is accused of placing ‘both hands’ on a woman’s waist before moving them ‘under her top.’
The plaintiff, known only as ‘Jane Doe,’ claimed he ‘started touching her breasts’ after he ‘pulled her by the arm to the back part of the rooftop’ at Catch NYC & Roof.
She went on to say that the ‘intoxicated’ star told her she looked like Gabrielle Union and groped her sensitive parts.
A spokesperson for Foxx denied the allegations in a statement to DailyMail.com, saying: ‘The alleged incident never happened. In 2020, this individual filed a nearly identical lawsuit in Brooklyn.
‘That case was dismissed shortly thereafter. The claims are no more viable today than they were then.
‘We are confident they will be dismissed again. And once they are, Mr. Foxx intends to pursue a claim for malicious prosecution against this person and her attorneys for re-filing this frivolous action.’
In her lawsuit, the plaintiff alleges the incident occurred around 1 a.m., a few hours after she and a friend were seated at a table away from him at the celebrity hotspot.
According to the lawsuit, ‘the plaintiff’s friend asked Foxx if he’d take a photo with her and the plaintiff’ and he allegedly replied: ‘Sure, baby anything for you.’
She claims he ‘seemed intoxicated at the time’ and told her that ‘she looked like Gabrielle Union.’
Additionally, the plaintiff claimed he told her: ‘Wow, you have that supermodel body’ and that she smelled ‘so good.’
The woman claims that after he reportedly got personal with her, she ‘attempted to step away and observed a security guard and others who saw what had transpired’ but that they ‘chose to walk away.’
According to the complainant, things swiftly escalated and he ‘slid his hand into her pants and put his fingers on and in her vagina and anus.’
When her companion witnessed what allegedly happened, the suit claims her buddy hurried over and ‘Jamie stopped touching her.’
The plaintiff says that as a result of the ‘s**ual assault, abuse, assault, and battery,’ she sought medical treatment and endured pain and emotional suffering.
She is suing Foxx and Catch as well as its employees for compensation and punitive damages.
The complaint was filed in accordance with New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which established a one-year revival period for filing s**ual abuse claims that would otherwise be prohibited by the statute of limitations.
The deadline to file such claims ends on Thursday.
He was in a relationship with actress Katie Holmes at the time of the alleged incident, which he ended in May 2019 after six years of dating.
He was previously accused of s**ual assault when a woman said in 2002 that he ‘slapped’ her ‘with his p*nis’.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acknowledged to People in 2018 that a ‘female victim came to the LVMPD and stated that a s**ual assault occurred in the Las Vegas region in 2002,’ and Foxx was named ‘as the suspect.’
At the time, Foxx’s lawyer issued a statement to the outlet denying the claims.
‘Jamie Foxx emphatically denies that this incident ever occurred, and he will be filing a report with the Las Vegas Police Department against the woman for filing a false police report against him,’ Foxx’s attorney said.
‘The first time Mr. Foxx became aware of this woman’s absurd claims about an incident that supposedly occurred sixteen years ago was when TMZ contacted his representatives today about this story.’
The lawyer added, ‘The alleged incident was not reported to law enforcement in 2002, or at any other time in the last sixteen years until last Friday because the incident never happened. We consider it to be extraordinarily reckless for any publication to publish this bogus story.’
The allegations come seven months after he suffered an unspecified medical emergency in April, which left him hospitalized for months.
