Grammy Award-winning DJ
Diplo has been accused of “distributing revenge porn” by an anonymous woman, who also filed a restraining order against him.
According to reports on Deadline.com, a Los Angeles woman filed court papers against Diplo, or
Thomas Wesley Pentz
, to block him “from distributing revenge porn” allegedly “designed to humiliate her and to scare other women out of coming forward.”
In response to the allegations, Diplo’s attorney Bryan J. Freedman denied all such allegations and shared in a statement with Pitchfork.com that the woman was “has been harassing my client and his family for more than a year and has repeatedly refused to stop doing so.”
While denying that the DJ violated any laws, he also shared that his client “wants nothing whatsoever to do with this person” and that he wants the harassment aimed at his family to end.
According to reports, the woman accused Diplo of grooming her and having her followed by a private investigator. She also claimed that they were intimate and Diplo documented their activity without her consent.
The woman also claimed that an explicit photo showed up on an anonymous Twitter thread, which she believes to be “a fake account” operated by Diplo or someone associated with him.
Recently, Diplo was in the news when he was linked to 19-year-old Tik Tok star
Quenlin Blackwell
. The star, however, quickly shot down the speculations, stating that Blackwell was only a tenant on his property.
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