A lawsuit has claimed that actor Vin Diesel, frontman for the Fast & Furious franchise, committed sexual battery in 2010 against his former assistant.
Filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the lawsuit from Asta Jonasson alleges that Diesel “pinned her to a wall where he groped and masturbated in front of her,” according to the Hollywood Reporter (THR). Jonasson further claims that Diesel’s company, One Race Films, fired her in retaliation for resisting his sexual provocations.
Jonasson claims that she filed the lawsuit as a means to render nondisclosure agreements, which she signed at the time of her departure, obsolete in certain circumstances such as hers. According to her complaint, the incident occurred at the St. Regis Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, in September 2010. Her job duties at the time included organizing and accompanying “Diesel to parties to…
