Youtube sensation Sam Pepper has been accused of rape, according to an exclusive report by Buzzfeed News. The woman is a 20-year-old from Toronto who wishes to remain anonymous. She says she met Pepper back in April of 2013 when he was touring with rappers Sammy Adams and T. Mills.
According to the woman, Pepper tweeted that he was in Toronto and she exchanged information with him on Facebook, as did her older sister and friend. Pepper then messaged her and asked if she would come to his room at the Westin Hotel, promising in return that he’d try to get her backstage.
She also shared several screenshots of their conversations via Facebook that detailed their plans to meet up:
Buzzfeed
Buzzfeed
The hotel has denied comment on whether Sam was staying there on the date in question, April 26, stating that they cannot confirm because of privacy laws.
Her account of the multiple assaults is available in full detail via Buzzfeed, but according to the woman, Pepper assaulted her in his hotel room before the concert and again after, and she didn’t report the incident out of fear of the backlash. After the first assualt, when she and her friends tried to get into the concert he would only allow her admission, and after the concert he promised to take her home but instead took her back to his hotel room and assaulted her again.
Buzzfeed reports that they contacted Sam Pepper around 5 p.m. last night (September 26) and he has not responded. But he has removed his online social presence from the internet, scrubbing his Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter first of the posts from that day, and then removing them from the web all together.
The accusations come on the heels of a video that Sam posted in which he approached women and unexpectedly pinched and groped them. The video was met with enormous backlash and he quickly pulled it from the internet. He was also recently accused of soliciting nude photos from a minor.
This is a developing story, we will update as more information arises.
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