A model and background actor who previously accused the artist formerly known<\/a> as Kanye West<\/a> of assault in a 2024 lawsuit<\/a>, stemming from a La Roux<\/a> music video shoot in 2010, has further detailed her claims against the 24-time Grammy winner in a new interview. Meanwhile, a rep for Ye has responded by pointing to arguments previously made in court filings.<\/p>\n Speaking with<\/a> Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty for BBC\u2019s Fame Under Fire podcast<\/a>, Jennifer An recalled feeling \u201cso excited\u201d after responding to an audition for the shoot and securing the gig. Hours into the shoot, An said, the crew was alerted to Ye\u2019s arrival, which led to her and other models being \u201clined up in the hallway.\u201d Ye is said to have then picked \u201cthree girls to be in the scene with him,\u201d though he ultimately paused the shoot after failing to remember his lines.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had the other two models leave the room,\u201d An said. \u201cHe pulled a chair up in front of the camera and he pulled a chair beside the camera, and he had me sit in the chair in front of the camera. I didn\u2019t know what was gonna happen. I was given no direction. I was just told to sit in this chair. Then playback started, and then all of a sudden he just reaches a hand out and starts choking me and I\u2019m just not sure what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n An claimed that Ye then \u201cpulled his other hand out and starts choking me with both hands,\u201d before then allegedly proceeding to smear her makeup and stick his hands inside her mouth.<\/p>\n COMPLEX SHOP:<\/b> Shop the brands you love, anytime and anywhere. Uncover what’s next. Buy. Collect. Obsess.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI mean, it simulated, like, oral sex,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n While detailing her allegations, An became visibly emotional. She also said she felt \u201csuffocated, \u201cunsure,\u201d and \u201cscared\u201d during the alleged incident.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Ye\u2019s legal team argued that the alleged actions should be protected on free speech grounds due to the artistic nature of the production. Jesse Weinstein, an attorney for An, argued against this in a statement shared with Complex in March<\/a>. At the time, La Roux herself was in headlines due to court filings that included alleged Instagram DM conversations between her and An.<\/p>\n \u201cLabeling alleged sexual assault as \u2018artistic expression\u2019 does not place it beyond the reach of the law,\u201d Weinstein told Complex at the time. \u201cOur filings present substantial corroborating evidence, and we believe the facts will speak clearly as this case proceeds.\u201d<\/p>\n When reached for comment by Complex on Wednesday (June 10), a rep for Ye shared the following statement, which pulls from arguments previously made in court filings from Jan. 28 and March 16 of this year, respectively:<\/p>\n \u201cThis case involves serious allegations. Ms. An\u2019s complaint has been amended twice, each time in apparent response to the legal deficiencies identified by prior motion practice, and with each amendment the factual allegations have grown more extreme, diverging ever further from what Plaintiff\u2019s own evidence supports. Jennifer An\u2019s latest concoction does not merely present alternative theories. It reverses and recasts core operational facts in order to avoid statutory dismissal, leaving a set of allegations that cannot be reconciled into a plausible narrative.<\/p>\n Michelle An is the only eyewitness. She admits she did not observe Defendant place his fingers into Plaintiff\u2019s mouth or his hands around Plaintiff\u2019s throat. No law enforcement report was ever filed. No medical attention was sought. No contemporaneous record of any kind exists. The complaint was filed in the final days before the New York City Gender-Motivated Violence Act revival window closed, fourteen and a half years after the alleged events. After three pleading attempts, the second amended complaint still does not plead any sexual offense.<\/p>\n Filmed productions routinely depict or simulate coercive or sexualized conduct, including acts that, if real, would constitute assault. Such depictions may involve physical contact between performers. But the emulation of sexual violence for artistic purposes is not itself sexual violence, and the presence of physical contact in a staged performance does not transform expressive conduct into a crime, let alone into gender-motivated violence. Ms. An herself admits that the video was designed to \u2018emulate\u2019 stylized violence for the camera. This admission negates any inference of gender-based hostility.\u201d<\/p>\n In more recent years, Ye, now 49, has faced public outcry over various remarks and actions called out as antisemitic, including expressing \u201clove\u201d for Hitler in a 2022 Alex Jones interview<\/a> and selling t-shirts emblazoned with a swastika. 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