T.I. and his wife Tiny Harris have been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting three more women, adding to a rapidly growing list of accusers.
The three newest accusers have retained the attorney Tyrone A. Blackburn, who is representing several other women who claim the 40-year-old rapper and his 45-year-old singer–songwriter wife sexually assaulted them, Page Six reported on Friday.
Blackburn has said that he is ‘speaking with investigators from multiple jurisdictions to pursue criminal charges’ against the celebrity couple.
New allegations: T.I. and his wife Tiny Harris have been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting 17 women after three more came forward, Page Six reported on Friday; seen together in February 2020
A spokesperson for the attorney says that one of the alleged victims said the husband-and-wife duo ‘pulled out a pill and forced her to swallow it’ when they met at a Miami nightclub in 2010.
According to the woman, their party moved to a hotel in South Beach where a security guard for the couple forced her to give up her cell phone.
Blackburn’s spokesperson said that the woman claimed that T.I. then ‘forced her to take a powdered substance from his finger.’
The woman also said that ‘[Tiny] undressed her and proceeded to engage in sexual intercourse.
‘She said her body was numb, the room was slowing down, and she could not consent,’ the spokesperson added.
Incapacitated: One new accuser claimed that T.I. forced her to take drugs, then his wife Tiny had sex with her when she could not consent; pictured in 2018 in Hollywood
Her story is similar to those of several other women who have accused T.I. and Tiny of rape, sexual assault and sex trafficking.
Another of the new accusers accused T.I. and one of his male friends of ‘drugging and raping’ her in a Miami hotel room over Memorial Day weekend in 2010.
A third new accuser claimed she was taken across state lines for sexual purposes by the rapper, which could potentially be a federal crime.
She said she was ‘drugged… and sex trafficked in Nevada, California, and Florida.’
Blackburn’s spokesperson said his clients have made ‘a myriad of allegations of forced drugging, kidnapping, rape, and intimidation,’ though he is not representing all of the woman who have shared sexual assault accusations against T.I. and Tiny with him.
A lawyer representing T.I. and Tiny denied the women’s claims back in March, calling them a ‘shakedown.’
‘My clients’ position remains the same. We are still waiting for the anonymous accusers to reveal themselves to the public and the Harrises. Their continued unwillingness and refusal to do so compromises and undermines every single allegation being made,’ he said.
Escalation: Two other women said they were sexually assaulted and sex trafficked across state lines, potentially leaving the couple vulnerable to federal charges; seen in October 2020 in Atlanta
Six more women, including a member of the military and a stripper, previously joined the group of accusers in early March.
The couple have been pushing back against the women, who say they were drugged, kidnapped and forced into sex with the pair or someone in their circle. T.I. and Tiny have denied those allegations, and claims from three men who also say the couple made ‘terrorist threats’ against them.
On March 8, The Daily Beast revealed that the attorney representing those eight women and three men who had heard from six additional accusers.
They included a stripper, a member of the military, and a high school student who once interned at one of the rapper’s studios.
The women claimed that T.I. and Tiny (whose real names are Clifford and Tameka), or someone in their circle, date raped them then sexually abused them. No criminal charges have been brought against the pair.
Serious accusations: The women claim that T.I. and Tiny, whose real names are Clifford and Tameka, that the pair or someone in their circle date raped them then sexually abused them. They have previously denied similar allegations but haven’t yet addressed these; seen in 2020
The claims started in January on social media. Multiple women claimed to have been abused by the pair in some way, which prompted them to deny the allegations in a statement.
Then, Blackburn approached some of the women to hear their stories. He then went to the authorities in Georgia and California, asking them to launch an investigation.
At the time, he said he had claims from 11 different people; the original eight women and three men.
Blackburn later said he had heard from an additional six women who have similar allegations.
He has written again to the authorities in Georgia and California, demanding that a criminal investigation be launched.
Making his case: A lawyer representing most of the 17 accusers has written to prosecutors in Georgia and California, urging them for file charges against T.I., Tiny and people in their circle; T.I. seen in 2019 in Atlanta
‘If I was a prosecutor, I’d have brought charges already.
‘These women are unaware of each other, and without any leading on my part, they recount eerily similar events of sexual abuse, forced ingestion of illegal narcotics, kidnapping, terroristic threats and false imprisonment,’ the letter from Blackburn states.
‘It concludes by imploring law enforcement officials to ‘tackle and end the stream depravity being committed’ by the celebrity couple,’ he told the Beast on Monday.
‘These women have come forward because there’s a void that has been left in their lives and the people that created the void are Clifford and Tameka Harris.
‘Granted, the void can never be fully filled, but at least it can be put back together if these cases are handled with care, are thoroughly investigated, indictments are executed, and the Harrises are prosecuted,’ he said, adding that the women are not seeking money.
Their allegations include claims from a 22-year-old who once worked as an intern at one of the rapper’s studios when she was in high school.
Doing his part: Lawyer Tyrone A. Blackburn is making the allegations public in the hopes that police will investigate
She described an alleged incident when she was 17 and working for the couple, on T.I.’s tour bus, when she claims his wife gave her a drink and two pills that made her ‘hot and and sweaty… [and she] began hallucinating and felt like she was floating.’
She claims that Tiny took her to the back of the tour bus to ‘cool off’ and that T.I. came over next and started commenting on her appearance.
She says she then blacked out and woke up ‘naked on a bed… bleeding from her vagina. She also felt discomfort in her anus.’
The next day, she claims she was taken home by one of the couple’s employees who said ‘she needs to learn to keep her mouth shut’ and ‘if she did not that bad things could happen to her and her family.’
She claims that she started losing control of her bowels in her sleep and was taken to the hospital where she was told she’d suffered ‘trauma to her anal cavity due to intense anal penetration.’
The member of the military said she was 22 in 2005 when she met the pair in a club in L.A.
She described going back to a hotel with them but said she started feeling ‘dizzy and light-headed’ after taking just one sip of Tiny’s drink.
She claims that three of them got into the shower where Tiny washed both her and T.I. Afterwards, she said Tiny tried to give her a ‘back butt massage’.
The woman, who was in the US Air Force, said T.I. then told her he wanted to put his foot in her vagina.
The woman said no but then apparently passed out and woke up ‘with a very sore vagina and a towel covering her.’
Steve Sadow, a lawyer for the pair, told DailyMail.com on Monday: ‘The Harrises continue to deny in the strongest possible terms these groundless and unjustified allegations.
‘When Blackburn finally exposes his anonymous accusers to the light of day by revealing their names, we will be in a position to confront his allegations. Hiding their identities makes it impossible for me to do so now.
‘We fully expect if the claims are fairly investigated, no charges will be brought.’
Overly protective: The couple previously sparked controversy when T.I. admitted to taking his teenage daughter to the gynecologist ensure she was still a virgin; seen in February 2020
The couple previously sparked controversy when T.I. admitted to going to the gynecologist with his teenage daughter to ensure she was still a virgin.
‘Not only have we had the conversation. We have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen.
‘So we’ll go and sit down and the doctor will come and talk, and the doctor’s maintaining a high level of professionalism.
‘He’s like, ‘Well, you know, sir, I have to, in order to share information’ — I’m like, ‘Deyjah, they want you to sign this, so we can share information. Is there anything you would not want me to know? Oh OK. See, doc? Ain’t no problem,” he said during a podcast interview.