Cyndi Lauper’s husband, David Thornton, has been sued by an anonymous female complete allegations that nan couple’s son, Declyn “Dex” Lauper, sexually assaulted her successful New York City 5 years ago.
The purported unfortunate revenge her title against Thornton, 72, pinch nan New York Supreme Court connected Monday, according to tribunal documents obtained by Page Six.
She alleged that Declyn, now 28, “brutally sexually assaulted” her wrong a New York City flat connected Nov. 9, 2020, successful nan lawsuit.
The anonymous woman, referred to arsenic Jane Doe successful nan complaint, claimed that nan alleged incident began erstwhile Lauper’s troubled boy sent her $60 “for her to recreation pinch a backstage car from her
residence to” nan apartment.
Declyn allegedly “seemed agitated” upon her arrival, and Jane Doe claimed that nan brace “soon disagreed astir a intersexual act” Declyn wanted her to execute connected him, per nan complaint.
Jane Doe further claimed that Lauper and Thornton’s boy took her cellphone erstwhile she insisted connected leaving nan premises and threatened to break nan instrumentality if she didn’t “perform fellatio connected him.”
When nan suspected unfortunate refused, Declyn allegedly “pushed Jane Doe onto his bed” and “proceeded to forcibly smother his genitals” complete her mouth.
Although Jane Doe claimed that she “did not want to hurt” Lauper’s son, she purportedly “gently placed her teeth connected his genitals successful an effort to get him disconnected of her.”
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Declyn allegedly proceeded to put “all of his assemblage weight into Jane Doe’s caput and cervix down onto his bed” until “they some heard a popular sound from her cervix and precocious spine,” astatine which constituent he fto her go, according to nan complaint.
“You see, I told you not to do that,” Declyn allegedly yelled astatine Jane Doe, per nan tribunal documents. He besides allegedly called her a “bitch” and a “n—a” and told his purported unfortunate that “no 1 would judge her if she ever repeated what had conscionable transpired.”
Jane Doe claimed that she took Declyn’s cellphone successful an effort to get her ain instrumentality back, and that nan brace yet returned each other’s phones earlier he “demanded” she time off nan apartment.
However, nan anonymous female claimed that she near her telephone charger successful nan apartment’s room and returned to nan premises to retrieve it.
After “walking done nan building’s lobby” aft obtaining her charger, Declyn allegedly called Jane Doe “saying that he was sorry for what he had conscionable done to her,” per nan complaint.
However, Jane Doe isn’t suing Declyn for intersexual assault. Instead, she revenge a suit against Thornton for allegedly enabling his son’s behaviour by leasing nan flat wherever nan purported incident took place.
The anonymous female besides alleged that Lauper’s hubby provided Declyn pinch nan flat “with existent knowledge of his son’s anterior intersexual violence against women” and nan “settlements of claims arising therefrom.”
“By providing nan Premises to his boy without capable supervision aliases restriction, knowing of his son’s convulsive and sexually abusive propensities, [Thornton] enabled nan gender-motivated unit that occurred,” nan suit read.
Jane Doe besides cited Declyn’s ex-girlfriend, “Love & Hip Hop: New York” alum Brittney Taylor, successful nan lawsuit, and Taylor’s 2018 allegations of “physical and verbal home violence” against Declyn “during their romanticist relationship.”
“Despite this knowledge of his son’s anterior intersexual unit against women and nan settlements of claims arising therefrom, [Thornton] grounded to return immoderate action to supervise, restrict, aliases forestall his boy from utilizing nan Premises to perpetrate intersexual violence,” nan title read.
Jane Doe claimed to person suffered “physical injury, symptom and suffering, affectional distress, humiliation, embarrassment, accent and anxiety, nonaccomplishment of self-esteem and self-confidence, and affectional symptom and suffering” arsenic a consequence of nan alleged November 2020 incident.
She is seeking unspecified compensatory damages, punitive damages and attorneys’ fees and costs from Thornton, per nan complaint.
Reps for Lauper and her boy did not instantly respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
The “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” singer, 72, and Thornton tied nan knot successful 1991 and welcomed Declyn successful 1997.
Lauper’s boy antecedently made headlines erstwhile he was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a limb successful nan 2nd degree and criminal possession of a firearm aft his friend was recovered changeable successful nan limb successful Harlem successful February 2024.
However, he avoided situation clip for nan weapon charge earlier this period by pleading blameworthy successful a plea deal. Instead, he was ordered to complete 1 twelvemonth of interim probation and mandatory substance maltreatment treatment.