Rapper T.I. and wife Tiny said they will not waver as they face resurfaced allegations of sexual assault in a new lawsuit.

The couple, whose real names are Clifford Harris Jr. and Tameka Harris, said in a statement Wednesday to The Times that their accuser — identified in the complaint as Jane Doe — has threatened legal action for the last three years and that they have since “emphatically and categorically” denied the allegations and maintained their innocence, “while the claims in this story have changed time and time again.”

In May 2021, Los Angeles police detectives launched an investigation into a sexual assault report in which the woman accused the “Live Your Life” rapper and the Xscape singer of sexual assault in 2005. Months later, in September 2021, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office declined to file charges against the musicians because the case fell outside of the 10-year statute of limitations.

Doe’s allegations against T.I., 43, and Tiny, 48, resurfaced in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday under California’s Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act. The law allows civil suits in cases of sexual assault that had gone past the statute of limitations, when “one or more entities are legally responsible for damages and the entity or their agents engaged in a cover up.” The act allowed for suits to be filed through the end of 2023.

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