Vin Diesel Sued for Alleged Sexual Battery of Assistant

A former assistant to Vin Diesel sued the actor on Thursday, alleging that in 2010 he pinned her in direction of a wall in a lodge suite and masturbated in entrance of her.

Asta Jonasson alleges that she was working for the actor in Atlanta, the place he was filming “Fast 5,” when he launched her to his suite on the St. Regis Lodge and compelled her onto his mattress.

Based mostly on the go properly with, she requested him to stop and moved in direction of the door, nonetheless he came over to her and began to grope her breasts and kiss her chest. He tried to pull down her underwear, and she or he screamed and ran in direction of the bathroom, primarily based on the go properly with.

She alleges that Diesel pressed in direction of the wall and compelled her to the contact his erect penis, after which began to masturbate.

“Ms. Jonasson was unable to flee and closed her eyes, afraid of angering Vin Diesel by rejecting him further and attempting to dissociate, wishing the assault would end,” the go properly with alleges.

Hours later, primarily based on the lawsuit, Samantha Vincent, Diesel’s sister and the president of his agency, known as Jonasson and fired her.

“It was clear to her that she was being fired because of she was not useful — Vin Diesel had used her to fulfill his sexual wants and she or he had resisted his sexual assaults,” the go properly with alleges. “Ms. Jonasson felt like she was a little bit of trash to be discarded. Ms. Jonasson felt helpless, her self price was demolished, and she or he questioned her private talents and whether or not or not a worthwhile occupation would require her to commerce her physique for improvement.”

Diesel’s representatives didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.

Jonasson filed the sexual battery lawsuit beneath California’s Sexual Abuse and Cowl Up Accountability Act, a 2022 regulation that created a one-year window to file certain matches which will in another case be open air of the statute of limitations. For the go properly with to qualify, the defendant might want to have engaged in an attempt to cowl up not lower than one earlier sexual assault allegation.

The go properly with alleges that various days sooner than the Diesel incident, Jonasson was propositioned by one different supervisor at his agency, One Race. Based mostly on the criticism, the supervisor summoned her to his lodge room on the St. Regis, took off his shirt, purchased into mattress and acknowledged “Come proper right here.”

“Appalled, Ms. Jonasson immediately exited the room and the lodge,” the go properly with states.

Vanity Truthful first reported the lawsuit.