Atlanta rapper T.I. being investigated by LAPD for sexual assault

(ATLANTA, GA) Exclusive:  Atlanta-based rapper TI and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris have been accused of multiple incidents of sexual abuse and other allegations in Georgia and California dating back 15 years.

The woman, whose identity is being kept anonymous, met with detectives virtually in April, claiming the assault took place in 2005. A spokesperson from the LAPD confirmed that the investigation is active. A second woman, Rachelle Jenks, filed a police report with similar allegations in Las Vegas earlier this month, according to her lawyer Tyrone A. Blackburn. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department would not confirm or deny if the investigation was active.

Both women are being represented by Blackburn, who is also handling the claims of several other women who have made similar allegations against the famous couple. In March, Blackburn sent letters to authorities in California and Georgia calling for an investigation into his clients’ claims, describing their allegations as an “eerily” similar pattern of “events of sexual abuse, forced ingestion of illegal narcotics, kidnapping, terroristic threats, and false imprisonment.”

The Harrises have vehemently denied any wrongdoing since the accusations first surfaced in late January. However, VH1 halted filming of their reality show T.I. and Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle while the network investigated the women’s claims. In a comment, the couple’s lawyer Steve Sadow claimed they had not been contacted by the LAPD or police in Las Vegas. The unnamed woman’s claims were first made public in Blackburn’s letter to officials, but an investigative report made by two LAPD detectives in April and reviewed by The Daily Beast contains more details about the alleged assault. The woman claimed she was first introduced to T.I. and Tiny through a man handing out flyers in the mall and was later invited out to a club where the couple would be the next night.

The woman claimed she only had two drinks before she accepted a sip of Tiny’s Patron drink. Shortly afterwards, she claimed that she was invited back to T.I. and Tiny’s hotel room, along with some other women at the club. Eventually, it was just the woman, T.I. and Tiny when the rapper suggested they all go into the bathroom to “freshen up.”

“Once in the bathroom, Tiny took off all of victim’s clothing,” the report states. “Tiny was also naked, wearing only a shower cap. T.I. came into the bathroom naked. All three got into the shower and T.I. told victim she looked better naked.”