*Journalist Lola Adesioye is taking legal action against actor Gbenga Akinnagbe after he falsely accused her of sexual assault in retaliation over a disagreement about wages he allegedly owed her.
“Filing false reports is a problem,” Adesioye previously told theGrio, “and people shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it. We should not be allowed to use celebrity to leverage the law to abuse and manipulate. I mean, I went to the housing court because he was harassing me. So essentially, he’s actually been enabled and empowered by the law to spend another five and a half months harassing me.”
As we previously reported, “The Wire” actor filed criminal charges accusing Adesioyeof sexually abusing him by touching his buttocks. She claims to the two became friends after meeting at a party in 2019 and ultimately they became “flirty” and started taking trips together. You can read the backstory here. It’s unclear if they had intimate relations.
In a nutshell, Adesioye allegedly rented a property from Akinnagbe in Brooklyn and began working as his assistant. But when she asked to be compensated for the work she was doing, that’s when their relationship soured.
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“After a while, I just felt like, you know, I was just getting used essentially,” she said. “It was really taking over my whole life, and then we were having issues around the subject of payment.”
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