Drake is suing a woman who claimed he got her pregnant and sexually assaulted her, alleging that she made the whole thing up in order to extort millions of dollars from him.
The Canadian rapper, 31, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Laquana Morris — a New Yorker who works in the adult industry under the name “Layla Lace” — seeking unspecified damages for civil extortion, intentional infliction of emotional distress, abuse of process, fraud, and defamation.
A representative for Lace could not be located and was not listed in the suit. Lace did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
According to papers obtained by PEOPLE, Drake (né Aubrey Graham) first met Lace in February 2017 during a stop on his Boy Meets World Tour in Manchester, England. The two then went on to have consensual, protected sex in his hotel room after the concert including oral sex she “voluntarily and seemingly happily performed,” the lawsuit claims.
Drake continued on with his tour and Lace returned home to New York, though the lawsuit claims the two continued texting. Screengrabs of their alleged messages printed in the court documents show Lace seemingly attempting to pursue a relationship with Drake by sending him selfies, telling him she missed him, and offering to fly to Europe to see him.
When Drake stopped responding to her messages, Lace allegedly contacted a mutual friend who had introduced her to the rapper. She claimed, in screengrabs of her texts in the dispute, that she had bought a flight to see Drake but had lost out on $1,600 when she had to cancel due to his lack of response.
Lace then allegedly posted on a now-deleted Instagram saying that she was pregnant. “So I guess still in this era this is the new thing that after you tell a dude you pregnant they stop answering they phone,” she wrote, in part, in a post that was allegedly shared on April 17, 2017. “I feel so stupid… I never told this man ‘No’ I did everything he told me to do… ((NEVER)) asked him for a dime… But don’t worry ima make sure I make a field day out of your f—ing ass.”
The Canadian rapper, 31, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Laquana Morris — a New Yorker who works in the adult industry under the name “Layla Lace” — seeking unspecified damages for civil extortion, intentional infliction of emotional distress, abuse of process, fraud, and defamation.
A representative for Lace could not be located and was not listed in the suit. Lace did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
According to papers obtained by PEOPLE, Drake (né Aubrey Graham) first met Lace in February 2017 during a stop on his Boy Meets World Tour in Manchester, England. The two then went on to have consensual, protected sex in his hotel room after the concert including oral sex she “voluntarily and seemingly happily performed,” the lawsuit claims.
Drake continued on with his tour and Lace returned home to New York, though the lawsuit claims the two continued texting. Screengrabs of their alleged messages printed in the court documents show Lace seemingly attempting to pursue a relationship with Drake by sending him selfies, telling him she missed him, and offering to fly to Europe to see him.
When Drake stopped responding to her messages, Lace allegedly contacted a mutual friend who had introduced her to the rapper. She claimed, in screengrabs of her texts in the dispute, that she had bought a flight to see Drake but had lost out on $1,600 when she had to cancel due to his lack of response.
Lace then allegedly posted on a now-deleted Instagram saying that she was pregnant. “So I guess still in this era this is the new thing that after you tell a dude you pregnant they stop answering they phone,” she wrote, in part, in a post that was allegedly shared on April 17, 2017. “I feel so stupid… I never told this man ‘No’ I did everything he told me to do… ((NEVER)) asked him for a dime… But don’t worry ima make sure I make a field day out of your f—ing ass.”
