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Emmy award-winning makeup artist Kylie Bell is suing Snoop Dogg aka Calvin Broadus for an alleged sexual assault that took place after a January 2003 taping of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Kylie claims to have been drugged and sexually assaulted by Snoop and his associates in a dressing room after a taping of the show, which Snoop was co-hosting at the time. Bell is seeking $25 million in damages from ABC, Walt Disney, and Kimmel's show. Bell claims that she told family members about the sexual assault the morning after the incident but was advised not to make a police report due to Broadus's supposed street gang affiliation.
Four months later, according to her complaint, Bell contacted the Kimmel program and told them that she had been sexually assaulted at the show and was contacting the police. Bell claims that shortly after making her complaint, she began having her living expenses paid through an ABC investment subsidiary.
After those network payouts stopped, Broadus began paying Bell's expenses while the rapper's lawyers opened negotiations with the woman's attorneys. Bell filed her lawsuit, claiming that the alleged attack caused "serious emotional distress and anxiety," left her under the care of a therapist and psychiatrist, and resulted in a September 2003 psychiatric hospitalization.
Snoop has denied playing any part in the alleged assault and has filed a counter suit for punitive damages and prevention of future threats.
- Sound Slam
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