Fat Joe Accuser Suddenly Drops Heinous Sexual Assault Claims

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Fat Joe’s former employee, who sued the rapper with serious allegations of sexual abuse, is now walking back those claims in an amended complaint.

Rapper and emcee Fat Joe can breathe a sigh of relief in his legal back-and-forth with a former employee, who amended their initial complaint to remove allegations of child sexual abuse. However, Terrance Dixon, who claims to have worked for Fat Joe for 16 years as a lyricist, still maintains his allegations that Fat Joe sex trafficked him during his employment.

According to Dixon’s previous complaint, Fat Joe, whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, oversaw a criminal enterprise enforced through intimidation and violence. This environment allegedly forced Dixon into performing sex acts “under duress and surveillance.”

In his original complaint, Dixon claimed that Cartagena engaged in sex with minors as young as 15 years old, paid for cosmetic surgery for one of them, exchanged cash for a cellphone bill for sexual favors from another, and even considered leaving his wife for an underage girl.

Now, the claims of child sexual abuse have been removed from the filing. But the previous claims of Dixon himself having been sex trafficked during his employment remain.

“These encounters were not consensual. They were carefully arranged by [Fat Joe] in environments fully controlled by him,” according to the complaint, which asserts that, “[Dixon’s] compliance was driven entirely by the credible and persistent threat of retaliation, including loss of income, removal from the tour, stranding in foreign countries, and physical harm.”

Dixon also says that Cartagena consistently underpaid him and committed tax fraud by inflating his wages in reports to the IRS. He also alleges that Fat Joe and companies that include Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, Slate Inc., and Sneaker Addict Touring, made “unlawful deductions from […] earned wages and failed to pay agreed wages.”

Joe Tacopina, an attorney for Fat Joe, has called Dixon’s complaint “complete fabrications—lies intended to damage his reputation and force a settlement through public pressure.” Consequently, Fat Joe filed a countersuit against Dixon.