Vin Diesel is facing accusations of sexual battery.
The 56-year-old actor is being accused by a former assistant. The incident allegedly took place back in the fall of 2010 when Vin was working on the film Fast Five.
According to Asia Jonasson, she was hired by Vin’s production company to work for him as he was filming the movie in Atlanta. Outlets report that her job responsibilities included “organizing parties, accompanying Diesel to parties, and ensuring that she was in close physical proximity to him in case photographs were taken of him with women when he attended events without his longtime girlfriend.”
Reportedly, the alleged incident happened in Vin’s hotel suite at the St. Regis. Details of what happened were revealed in the lawsuit.
Asta says she was asked to wait in Vins’s suite that night and that when others had left, he grabbed her wrists and pulled her onto the bed. She states that she asked him to stopped but he approached again and “began to grope her breasts and kiss her chest.”
The lawsuit claims:
“Ms. Jonasson was afraid to more forcibly refuse her supervisor, knowing that getting him out of that room was both crucial to her personal safety and job security. But this hope died when Vin Diesel dropped to his knees, pushed Ms. Jonasson’s dress up toward her waist, and molested her body, running his hands over Ms. Jonasson’s upper legs, including her inner thighs.”
She went on to allege that Vin tried to pull her underwear down. She screamed and ran down the hall, but he followed her and pinned her against the wall, placing her hand on his manhood. According to her, he then pleasured himself as she “closed her eyes, trying to dissociate from the sexual assault and avoid angering him.”
Asta claims that she received a call from VIn’s sister hours after the incident, informing him that she was fired – less than two weeks after starting the job. The lawsuit says:
“It was clear to her that she was being fired because she was no longer useful – Vin Diesel had used her to fulfill his sexual desires and she had resisted his sexual assaults.”
Asta says that she had been unable to speak out due to a nondisclosure agreement, but now the Speak Out Act and California’s AB2777 are allowing her to do so.
