An attorney is pursuing criminal investigations in at least two states says that over 30 women have accused Atlanta rapper T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris of abuse, including claims of forced drugging, kidnapping, rape and intimidation.
The rapper, whose legal name is Clifford Harris, and his wife have repeatedly denied the allegations.
Lawyer Tyrone A. Blackburn said he has approached law enforcement authorities on behalf of 11 people who claim to have been victimized by the couple or members of their entourage. Blackburn detailed some of those allegations in a news conference Monday. He said the the majority of the incidents, which date back to 2007, happened in Atlanta. Blackburn gave examples of women who said anonymously that the had been drugged and raped by the couple and one woman who said a security guard kidnapped her at gunpoint, drove her into the woods and raped her. Blackburn said he has been contacted in recent weeks by more than 30 “women, survivors and witnesses” who alleged similar stories of “forced drugging, kidnapping, rape and intimidation.” The allegations span more than 15 years and are “eerily consistent,” the release stated. The specific allegations include individuals who claim having been “coerced by Tiny to ingest drugs” or being “unknowingly administered drugs to impair the victims’ ability to consent to “sexual acts,” People reported.
According to the magazine, Blackburn has sent letters to officials in Georgia and California, requesting investigations be opened “under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and Georgia’s Rape, Kidnapping, RICO, and Terroristic Threats Statues.”
Meanwhile, five women told The New York Times that they were drugged or sexually assaulted by 40-year-old T.I., 45-year-old Tiny Harris or others “in their orbit.”
An attorney for the couple provided a statement on behalf of the couple, saying that T.I. and Tiny Harris “deny in the strongest possible terms these baseless and unjustified allegations” and called the allegations “nothing more than the continuation of a sordid shakedown campaign that began on social media and now attempts to manipulate the press and misuse the justice system.”
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