A former personal assistant to Soulja Boy who won more than $4 million against the rapper in a sexual abuse suit is asking a judge to order one of his companies to pay on the judgment, saying she has gotten nothing from the singer to date.
On April 10, a Santa Monica Superior Court jury ordered the 35-year-old “Crank That” singer to pay the plaintiff $4 million in compensatory damages and $250,000 in punitive damages. Identified only as Jane Doe, the plaintiff later accepted a reduction in punitive damages to $50,000 to avoid a retrial in that part of the case.
The singer’s real name is DeAndre Cortez Way.
In court papers filed Friday with Judge Mark H. Epstein in advance of a Nov. 6 hearing, Doe’s lawyers want the judge to direct SODMG Brand LLC to pay Doe the money. With interest, the judgment has now grown to about $4,252,650. Way formed the fashion company in 2023 and is the entity’s only managing member, according to Doe’s attorney’s court papers.
“The amount of $0.00 has been paid on the judgment,” Doe attorney Ronald L. Zambrano says in a sworn declaration in support of the plaintiff’s motion.
In their court papers, Soulja Boy’s attorneys contended that the singer and Doe had a “consensual, intimate relationship” for about a year and that he never employed her. But in her suit filed in January 2021, Doe said she was hired by Soulja Boy in December 2018. Her duties included cooking and bringing food and snacks, carrying personal belongings or luggage, styling the rapper’s hair, driving him and handling travel plans, the suit stated.
Soulja Boy paid the plaintiff $500 weekly for her services and she lived and worked seven days a week, 20 hours daily, at his homes in Malibu and Bell Canyon, the suit stated.
The two allegedly became romantically involved, but from January 2019 to December 2020 he allegedly sexually abused her and did not pay her overtime while also committing other wage and hour violations, her suit alleged.