A woman who alleges the late rapper Takeoff raped her in 2020, two years before his death, won a round in court when a judge named the singer’s mother as the substitute defendant in the plaintiff’s lawsuit.
The plaintiff is identified only as Jane Doe in the Van Nuys Superior Court complaint alleging Takeoff, whose real name was Kirshnik Khari Ball, sexually assaulted her during a party in an Encino home on June 23, 2020. The 28-year-old Takeoff, part of the Atlanta song trio Migos, was shot to death Nov. 1, 2022, at a Houston bowling alley.
On Friday, Judge Huey P. Cotton granted Doe’s motion to name Takeoff’s mother, Titiana Patrice Davenport, to take the place of the singer as the defendant in the case. In a previous legal action, a Georgia probate judge designated the singer’s mother as the administrator of her son’s estate,
In June 2023, Davenport filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the owners of 810 Billiards & Bowling Houston, the venue where her son was shot and killed. In January 2023, Cotton put a stay on Doe’s case until the probate proceedings are over.
Doe also has filed a $6 million creditor’s claim against Takeoff’s estate.
According to Doe’s lawsuit, Takeoff made several advances the night of the alleged sexual assault that Doe rejected. She later went to a bedroom to lie down, but despite her making it clear to the performer that she was not interested, he followed her into the bedroom and “forced himself on her and engaged in sexual intercourse,” the suit brought in August 2020 alleges.