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Riccardo Tisci, former inventive director of Burberry<\/a> and Givenchy<\/a>, has been accused of drugging and assaulting a person in June 2024, in accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by PEOPLE.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n On Tuesday, April 29, Patrick Cooper filed a lawsuit in opposition to Tisci, 50, claiming assault, battery, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional misery and violations of New York State\u2019s Gender-Motivated Violence Act. He is in search of compensatory and punitive damages.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThese allegations are categorically untrue,\u201d a spokesperson for Tisci mentioned in an announcement to PEOPLE. \u201cRiccardo looks forward to clearing his name of these false and malicious accusations.\u00a0He will obtain vindication through due process.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Burberry through Getty<\/p>\n <\/span> Tisci is thought for working with\u00a0Madonna<\/a>,\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0Meryl Streep<\/a>, Rihanna<\/a>, Cate Blanchett<\/a> and Kim Kardashian<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Cooper, 35, alleges that round June 29, 2024, Tisci put a drug in Cooper\u2019s drink at a Harlem, New York, restaurant. Cooper claims that Tisci didn’t provide medicine to Cooper or inform him \u201cthat he was placing a drug in his drink,\u201d per the submitting. Additionally, Cooper claims he didn’t consent to accepting medicine.\n<\/p>\n Cooper claims that \u201conce the drug took effect,\u201d Tisci introduced Cooper again to his house, the place he \u201cprevented [Cooper] from leaving and sexually assaulted him.\u201d When Cooper awakened, he discovered himself and Tisci bare subsequent to one another. The submitting claims that on the time of the aforementioned sexual assault, Cooper \u201clacked the capacity to consent\u201d and \u201cwas not conscious.\u201d\n<\/p>\n As a results of the drug(s) that Tisci allegedly gave Cooper, the latter was \u201cunable to reject, battle, cease, or defend himself [from Tisci],” per the submitting.\n<\/p>\n Dave Benett\/Getty<\/p>\n <\/span> The New York Police Department declined to supply a remark. However, the NYPD consultant mentioned, \u201cThe NYPD takes sexual assault and rape cases extremely seriously, and urges anyone who has been a victim to file a police report so we can perform a comprehensive investigation, and offer support and services to survivors.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Representatives for Tisci and Cooper\u2019s lawyer, Philip Hines, didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE\u2019s request for extra data on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n Want to maintain up with the most recent crime protection? Sign up for PEOPLE’s free True Crime publication<\/a> for breaking crime information, ongoing trial protection and particulars of intriguing unsolved circumstances.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
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