Diplo sued for revenge porn
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Diplo Accused of Distributing Revenge Porn in New Police Report
A California woman, who is involved in civil litigation with the producer, told police that Diplo sent nude photos of her to another person for revenge. Diplo’s lawyer has said the report is part of “an ongoing smear campaign against” the musician.
A California woman filed a police report with the Los Angeles Police Department against Diplo in August, alleging that he distributed nude photographs of her without permission, Pitchfork has learned. The woman, Shelly Auguste, has been involved in a legal battle with the superstar producer born Thomas Wesley Pentz since 2020, and this is the second time she has accused him of distributing revenge porn. (Diplo was not charged criminally over the initial allegation.) In November, the LAPD submitted Auguste’s new case to the Los Angeles city attorney’s office, where it is currently under review.
Auguste is currently suing Diplo for sexual battery, gender violence, intentional intrusion into private affairs, battery, assault, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and fraud, as well as violation of the Ralph Civil Rights Act and violation of the Tom Bane Civil Rights Act, with a civil trial currently scheduled for April 2024. Diplo publicly denied her allegations in October 2021 after she filed her initial claimin June of that year.
Diplo is also currently suing Auguste for stalking, trespassing, and distributing private materials. The lawsuit, filed by Diplo in April 2021, alleges Auguste to be “dangerously unstable,” and claims she “made relentless efforts to communicate with him” after he ended their relationship, including through fake social media accounts.
When reached by Pitchfork for comment on the August police report, Diplo’s attorney, Bryan J. Freedman, said, “For more than three years, Shelly Auguste has been orchestrating an ongoing smear campaign against Wes—and this is just more of the same.”
Freedman added, “Now, Ms. Auguste is at it yet again. But Wes will defend himself, and, just as he has done every time Ms. Auguste has defamed, harassed and attacked him and his family, he will win.”
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Shelly Auguste has said in her civil litigation that Diplo first contacted her on Twitter in 2014, when she was 17 and he was 35 or 36 years old. They formed an intermittent online correspondence predicated on her sending him nude photos, according to the lawsuit, and met in person at a nightclub in 2018. (According to the complaint filed by Diplo, he and Auguste first met over social media around 2018.) In April 2019, when Auguste was 22 years old, the two had sex for the first time. In her complaint, Auguste alleges that Diplo recorded the intercourse on his cell phone without consent and ejaculated inside of her without consent. According to both Auguste’s lawsuit against Diplo and Diplo’s lawsuit against Auguste, they had sex again in July 2019 after Diplo invited Auguste to his hotel room. Auguste’s lawsuit claims she was “highly intoxicated, barely able to walk or see straight,” but also describes their first sexual interaction that evening as “consensual.” However, the complaint also describes a second sexual encounter from the same evening: Auguste claims in her lawsuit that Diplo penetrated her nonconsensually while she “told [him] ‘no’ and tried to fight him off,” before getting dressed and running out of the hotel room crying.
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As described in Auguste’s lawsuit, Diplo and Auguste then entered into a tumultuous cycle. In September 2019, according to her complaint, Auguste confronted Diplo at a party, claiming that he had given her a sexually transmitted infection after insisting he did not have one. She claims he ignored her. Around February 2020, according to the complaint, he invited her to his house. When she arrived, he texted her saying he was not home, she claims. (In competing civil litigation, Diplo says Auguste arrived unannounced and that he felt “uneasy” about the incident. It does not mention the claim that he gave her a sexually transmitted infection, but he publicly called the allegation “not true” in October 2021.)
The complaint claims that Diplo “appeared to get pleasure from putting down Ms. Auguste,” and that “he knew she was an impressionable and vulnerable young woman as he had groomed her since she was a teenager.” Diplo’s complaint describes him as having suffered “emotional distress” during this time period.
In November 2020, Auguste sought and was granted a temporary restraining orderagainst Diplo. At the time, Freedman, Diplo’s lawyer, said that she “has been harassing [Diplo] and his family for more than a year and has repeatedly refused to stop doing so.” Diplo also secured his own restraining orderagainst Auguste.
In July 2021, Auguste filed a police report accusing Diplo of recording and distributing sexual content without her permission. Auguste explained in her complaint that she sought legal action because “a fake Twitter page,” which she believes belonged to Diplo, shared “an unredacted photo of [her] vagina and breasts” online. The account posted the photo, she alleges, because she had “shared her true personal experiences with [Diplo]” on Twitter. At the time, California’s statute of limitations gave victims only one year after the content was posted to pursue legal action, and Auguste’s case expired. (Victims now have one year from the discovery of revenge porn to pursue legal action, per Senate Bill 23.) The Los Angeles city attorney’s office did not elaborate on the reason for declining to pursue charges.
In January 2021, the two signed a dual restraining order agreement, concurring not to disparage each other. In September 2022, an arbitrator determined that subsequent tweets and Instagram stories of Auguste’s constituted breaches of the agreement, resulting in a $1.2 million monetary award to Diplo. The media in tweets and Instagram stories in question included: a post showing a screenshot of a publicly stipulated protective order filed by Diplo, which would keep court testimony sealed from the public; praise for California’s then-new Senate Bill No. 1141 (which allowed family courts to consider coercive control as domestic violence), a repost of a Rihanna tweet saying “Never underestimate a man’s ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes,” the Taylor Swift lyrics “I don’t regret it one bit, ’cause he had it coming,” and a post supporting the women who accused NFL player Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct in 2021.
The complaint claims that Diplo “appeared to get pleasure from putting down Ms. Auguste,” and that “he knew she was an impressionable and vulnerable young woman as he had groomed her since she was a teenager.” Diplo’s complaint describes him as having suffered “emotional distress” during this time period.
In November 2020, Auguste sought and was granted a temporary restraining orderagainst Diplo. At the time, Freedman, Diplo’s lawyer, said that she “has been harassing [Diplo] and his family for more than a year and has repeatedly refused to stop doing so.” Diplo also secured his own restraining orderagainst Auguste.
In July 2021, Auguste filed a police report accusing Diplo of recording and distributing sexual content without her permission. Auguste explained in her complaint that she sought legal action because “a fake Twitter page,” which she believes belonged to Diplo, shared “an unredacted photo of [her] vagina and breasts” online. The account posted the photo, she alleges, because she had “shared her true personal experiences with [Diplo]” on Twitter. At the time, California’s statute of limitations gave victims only one year after the content was posted to pursue legal action, and Auguste’s case expired. (Victims now have one year from the discovery of revenge porn to pursue legal action, per Senate Bill 23.) The Los Angeles city attorney’s office did not elaborate on the reason for declining to pursue charges.
In January 2021, the two signed a dual restraining order agreement, concurring not to disparage each other. In September 2022, an arbitrator determined that subsequent tweets and Instagram stories of Auguste’s constituted breaches of the agreement, resulting in a $1.2 million monetary award to Diplo. The media in tweets and Instagram stories in question included: a post showing a screenshot of a publicly stipulated protective order filed by Diplo, which would keep court testimony sealed from the public; praise for California’s then-new Senate Bill No. 1141 (which allowed family courts to consider coercive control as domestic violence), a repost of a Rihanna tweet saying “Never underestimate a man’s ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes,” the Taylor Swift lyrics “I don’t regret it one bit, ’cause he had it coming,” and a post supporting the women who accused NFL player Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct in 2021.
itsyoung!!
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you give off suspect vibes at time man... what the fukk is this post..Why are women out here sending nude pictures and expecting men to not share them with other people, women are children.
this coupled with the post saying you got hard when watching a tranny get out of a truck during road rage and started shooting... this dont really add up with your other posts
I'm in the EDM scene wondering why Diplo hasn't been cancelled in the community like some others ? 
Crazy there's an update a week after I mentioned the original story on my timeline .
Crazy there's an update a week after I mentioned the original story on my timeline .
Westbama Heartthrob
Irregular Zero
I hope he's trolling but just doesn't realize he's not as funny or clever as he thinks he isyou give off suspect vibes at time man... what the fukk is this post..
KFBF
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Deal with a known scumbag then act surprised when he moves like a scumbag brehettes.
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Diplo is definitely a dikkhead, from his ex Taylor Swift and the drama over This is What You Came For, plus a non-famous Black woman alleging something similar about his aholishness. Will link once I find them.
This article is long af and I’ve only gotten through half but he reached out to a 17 year old online like wtf
@Unknown Poster... diplo finally getting exposed. You told us years ago. Never rocked with diplo or those corny ass european dance music clowns with that disorganized confusion bullshyt.
Crayola Coyote
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THISWhy are women out here sending nude pictures and expecting men to not share them with other people, women are children.
