2:35 PM PT — Now that the verdict has been read,Metro Boomin‘s lawyer, Lawrence C. Hinkle II of Sanders Roberts LLP, tells TMZ Hip Hop he has immense gratitude for the jury’s decision … “The allegations against Mr. Wayne were frivolous and unequivocally false. Mr. Wayne has endured serious and damaging accusations, and today’s verdict confirms what he has always said – the plaintiff’s claims against him are completely fabricated. Also on the trial team with Mr. Hinkle were fellow Sanders Roberts’ litigators Justin H. Sanders and Bobby D. Daniels.”
Metro, for his part, reiterated that “never in a million years” would he do something as heinous as rape and also ripped the plaintiff’s “janky lawyers” for agreeing to take on the case!!!
Metro Boomin has been found not liable in his civil sexual assault case, brought by a woman named Vanessa LeMaistre, who claimed the superproducer drugged and raped her during a studio session back in 2016. The jury trial concluded on Thursday after 3 days of deliberation … both Metro and Vanessa testified in the case.
Vanessa alleged she sought comfort through a platonic friendship after losing a child, but claimed back in September 2016, she blacked out after consuming Xanax and alcohol and woke up to find Metro raping her.
She told the jury she realized she had been raped after ingesting Ayahuasca during a 2024 ceremony in Peru and wrote a note about it … Metro’s defense argued the case was nothing more than a shakedown for money.
Vanessa was seeking more than $3 million in damages, but Metro said he never heard any accusations until the lawsuit was filed 9 years later, and testified that any relations between the two had been consensual.
Metro also slammed the notion that he bragged about the alleged rape in the song “Rap Saved Me” from his 2017 hit album “Without Warning” alongside 21 Savage and Offset.
Young Thug was in court to support Metro … which was seemingly a friendship favor repaid from when he was battling his own legal issues!!!
