Rapper Drake has filed suit against stripper/model Layla Lace after she publicly claimed he sexually assaulted and impregnated her, according to court papers.
Drake, 31, stated in the September 18 Los Angeles County Superior Court filing that a friend introduced him to Lace (real name Laquana Morris) via text message before they met up in Manchester, England, in February 2017 during his Boy Meets World tour.
According to US Weekly:
After his concert, the three-time Grammy winner and the former stripper returned to The Lowry Hotel, where they “hung out, talked and watching some television together” before having “consensual, protected sex,” according to the documents.
Drake later traveled to London to continue his U.K. tour, while Lace returned home to New York. He claimed in his lawsuit that she “went ballistic” because she wanted to join him on the road. The pair continued texting in the weeks that followed, and Lace even offered to fly back to Europe to meet up with Drake again, according to screenshots included in the documents.
Drake ended all contact with the unhinged Lace that March after he realized that she had “created a fantasy relationship,” according to his complaint.
The next month, she claimed on Instagram that she was pregnant with his child and retained a lawyer to demand money for the alleged baby. However, she refused to take a paternity test. The lawsuit claimed “there is no credible evidence of pregnancy, nor any baby, which would have been born last fall.”
According to the documents, Lace then reported to the Manchester police that “she had consensual vaginal sex with Drake, but claimed that he subsequently forced her to perform oral sex on him against her will.” Drake said in the filing that he voluntarily flew to the U.K. for an interview with a detective and was subsequently cleared in the investigation. In response, Lace allegedly “demanded payment of millions of dollars in exchange for her silence,” according to the papers.
In April 2017, Lace posted on Instagram that she was pregnant, saying, “So I guess still in this era this is the new thing that after you tell a dude you pregnant they stop answering they [sic] phone!!!”
According to Drake’s lawsuit, she then threatened to publicly leak messages from Drake. Lace subsequently went on SiriusXM to claim that Drake got her pregnant.
Drake’s complaint alleges that Layla refused to take a paternity test. Arguing that Lace’s claims were all part of a scam, Drake alleges in his lawsuit, “There is no credible evidence of pregnancy, nor any baby, which would have been born last Fall.”
