N.O.R.E. Sued for Sexual Assault

Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault.N.O.R.E. is facing allegations of sexual assault from a former music executive, who has accused the Queens rapper and podcast host of forcibly digitally penetrating her in a Manhattan nightclub in 1999.At the time, Carmen Bryan was working as the finance officer of Def Jam affiliate Rush Management, and shared a child with Nas. N.O.R.E., born Victor James Santiago Jr., was promoting his second album, Melvin Flynt – Da Hustler at a club event when he allegedly “physically overpowered” Bryan, forcing himself onto her in front of her friends and other patrons, according to a lawsuit obtained by Pitchfork. Despite her pleas to stop, the assault only ended when bystanders “shouted” and “physically pulled him away.”Crying uncontrollably, Bryan fled the club with her friends, but, according to the lawsuit, Santiago proceeded to follow her while making sexual comments and demanding, “Don’t you know who I am?” It was only in the illumination of streetlights that Santiago realized it was Bryan, the mother of Nas’s child. “Carm, I didn’t know it was you,” he allegedly said. “You’re always doing something different with your ha...