- The lawsuit claims that the incident took place in a St. Regis hotel suite in 2010 when the assistant was working for the star
- The suit also claims that Samantha Vincent, Vin Diesel’s sister had fired the former assistant after less than two weeks on the job, in an attempt to cover up the act.
American actor Vin Diesel has been embroiled in controversy with allegations of s3xual battery emerging against him by his former assistant.
The actor is accused in the lawsuit of kissing her former assistant’s chest and grabbing her breasts in spite of her requests for him to stop.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles today, December 21, 2023, states that the event happened at a St. Regis hotel suite in 2010 while the assistant was working for the Fast and Furious star on the Fast Five movie.
In her lawsuit, Asta Jonasson, the plaintiff, claimed that she had been hired by Diesel’s production firm, One Race, to work for the actor in Atlanta.
The lawsuit further stated that Jonasson, a recent graduate of the Los Angeles film school program, helped the actor by throwing parties, going to parties with him, and being in close physical proximity to him in public.
The suit alleges that late one night in September 2010, she was asked to wait in Diesel’s suite at the St. Regis hotel while he entertained hostesses he had brought back from a club. Once the other women were gone, Diesel grabbed her wrist, one with each of his hands, and pulled her onto the bed.’ She asked him to stop, escaped his grasp, and waited by the front door of the suite for him to leave.
“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.”
“Diesel moved to pull down her underwear, Jonasson screamed and ran down the hallway toward the bathroom, where Diesel pinned her to the wall, placing her hand on his erect pennis, even as she verbally refused. He masturbated, the suit alleges, while ‘terrified, Ms. Jonasson closed her eyes, trying to dissociate from the sexual assault and avoid angering him.”
The suit also claims that Jonasson was fired by Samantha Vincent, the president of One Race and sister of Diesel, after less than two weeks on the job.
The actor was also charged in the lawsuit with “intentional infliction of emotional distress, hostile work environment, wrongful termination, and retaliation” in addition to discrimination on the basis of sex and gender.
In addition to saying that Jonasson “has suffered and continues to suffer humiliation, emotional distress, and mental and physical pain and anguish,” the lawsuit accuses One Race and Diesel of “an attempted cover-up.”
According to the lawsuit, Jonasson was prohibited from discussing the incident in public since he had signed a nondisclosure agreement prior to starting work at One Race. She is now able to come forward, though, thanks to the Speak Out Act, which forbids the enforcement of nondisclosure agreements in cases of sexual assault and harassment in the US, and California’s AB2777, which temporarily suspends the statute of limitations for allegations of sexual abuse that occur in 2009 or later.
Diesel hasn’t officially addressed the lawsuit as of yet.
