Vin Diesel has joined the growing list of actors accused of assault/battery after Jonathan Majors was found guilty of minor assault earlier this week.
A former assistant to the actor Vin Diesel filed a lawsuit against him on Thursday claiming that he sexually assaulted her in 2010 and she was fired from her job hours later.
In the lawsuit, filed in a Los Angeles court, the former assistant Asta Jonasson alleges that Diesel assaulted her in an Atlanta hotel room while the pair were working on the movie “Fast Five.”
“Sexual harassment in the workplace will never stop if powerful men are protected from accountability,” Jonasson’s lawyer Claire-Lise Kutlay said in a written statement.
“We hope her courageous decision to come forward helps create lasting change and empowers other survivors.”
In the lawsuit, she claimed that Diesel groped her breasts and kissed her after he had entertained some women in his hotel room.
“Vin Diesel ignored Ms. Jonasson’s clear statements of non-consent to his sexual assaults,” the lawsuit reads.
At that point, the lawsuit alleges Diesel forced Jonasson to grab his erect penis, she yelled for him to stop, then he pinned her against a wall and masturbated, only letting her free when he was done. He then left the hotel room.
No claims from the accused yet.
