Zheani formally information police report accusing Die Antwoord singer Ninja of sexual assault
The controversy between Australian musician Zheani Sparkes and Die Antwoord singer Ninja return years and years, additional than we will successfully expound upon inside this text. (Learn right here if you happen to’re considering analyzing the complete timeline.) However now, after years, Sparkes has formally filed a police report in Queensland alleging she is a sufferer of revenge porn and accusing Die Antwoord rapper and actor Watkin Tudor Jones, aka Ninja, of sexually assaulting her in South Africa six years in the past.
On the subject of the incident in query, the Sydney Morning Herald writes, “Sparkes says she was feeling uncomfortable and requested to return to their lodging earlier than it started raining. As quickly as they went again, she says Jones started to aggressively have intercourse together with her in opposition to her will, choking her whereas behaving violently. She says he seemed to have handed out instantly after the ordeal, then wakened 30 seconds later and claimed to don’t have any recollection of something that occurred. She refused to debate the incident with him regardless of repeated makes an attempt.”
Sparkes claims Die Antwoord launched revenge porn of her, and proof suggests Jones shared hyperlinks to the specific photographs of Sparkes on his personal social media platforms.
In a press release through a publicist, Jones denies the allegations.
Sparkes’ actions prompted others to return out about Die Antwoord’s conduct, together with their former supervisor, Jay Savage, former head of Sony ATV publishing in South Africa.
“There aren’t any relationships that finish amicably [with them]. When a relationship ends, it ends with you being consigned to a scrap heap,” he mentioned. “The behaviour is ferocious, it’s unrepentant, it’s unremorseful. Somebody can’t simply be advised goodbye, they should be buried ultimately.”
Final month, a video from the group’s former videographer surfaced of an obvious hate crime in opposition to Hercules and Love Affair member Andy Butler. That led to them being pulled from a few pageant lineups, together with Life Is Lovely and Louder Than Life.
through Sydney Morning Herald | Photograph through Rukes.com