Rapper The Game has been ordered to pay $7 million to a woman who accused him of sexual assault. The judgement came after a last ditch effort by the hip hop star to have the trial delayed as he was allegedly suffering from a sore tooth was denied.
Priscilla Rainey
An Illinois judge instead ruled the performer, real name Jayceon Terrell Taylor, will have to pay Priscilla Rainey hefty damages for assaulting her while shooting a reality show shoot in 2015.
According to TMZ, the judgement was made against him last week for $7.13 million. The 36-year-old, who made not mention of the decision on his social media feeds, is planning to appeal the decision. Legal papers previously revealed the How We Do star was accused of sexually harassing the glamour model several times, including 'forcefully reaching his hand inside her dress to rub her bare vagina and buttocks.' The judgement was made after his legal maneuver to delay the trial over a bad tooth infection failed.
The star's dentist wrote a letter last week saying he should not travel to Illinois for the trial as the infection was affecting his mouth and sinuses. He was arrested in 2015 for the felony offense of allegedly making criminal threats after turning himself in for allegedly punching an off-duty police officer during a game of basketball. The previous year he and fellow hip hop star T.I. got into a standoff against LAPD officers in a car near Supperclub in Los Angeles, apparently due to miscommunication as they thought their friends ahd been fighting with the lawmen. No arrests were made.
In 2012 after losing a final appeal he was ordered to pay $5 million in damages for defaming five police officers who arrested him in North Carolina in 2005. He claimed they overreacted and he had done nothing wrong, while police said he and his sidekicks had surrounded lawmen in a threatening manner. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail, 150 hours of community service, and three years probation after pleading no contest to a felony weapons charge in 2008 after allegedly threatening someone witha gun at a basketball game in South LA, and the rapper was refused entry to Canada in 2011 due to alleged gang ties.
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