Tiffany Haddish, & Aries Spears have been accused of child sexual abuse, which Haddish's attorney calls "meritless."

9/2/2022

RawNews1st – Reps for Tiffany Haddish, Aries Spears call child sexual abuse lawsuit a ‘shakedown’

According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the actors allegedly assaulted a pair of siblings — named John Doe and Jane Doe in the filing — when they were 7 and 14. The Daily Beast first reported on the lawsuit Thursday.

The suit alleges that Haddish (“Girls Trip”) and Spears (“MADtv”) “groomed” and “molested” the plaintiffs, and that some of the incidents were recorded on video. However, Haddish’s attorney, Andrew Brettler, dismissed the accusations.

“Plaintiff’s mother, Trizah Morris, has been trying to assert these bogus claims against Ms. Haddish for several years,” he said in a statement to The Times

Per the 31-page suit, Jane Doe’s 2013 interaction with Spears and Haddish allegedly involved her copying the actions of a video in which a man and a woman ate a sandwich while “moaning and making sexual noises” in a way “that simulated the act of fellatio.”

“Now, Ms. Morris has her adult daughter representing herself in this lawsuit. The two of them will together face the consequences of pursuing this frivolous action.”

At the center of the suit are two incidents involving each of the siblings, separately. Jane Doe alleged that in 2013, Spears and Haddish encouraged her to mimic the motions of fellatio for a skit. Jane Doe was 14 at the time.

Then in 2014, a 7-year-old John Doe was allegedly stripped down to his underwear and filmed for another skit featuring both Haddish and Spears.

“I don’t trust nobody, I’m scared of adults, I refuse to be recorded or take pictures because I am scared of … adults trying to do nasty stuff to me again,” John Doe told the Daily Beast. “I spend all of my time in my room and do not go anywhere because I don’t trust anybody.”

“The molestation video was uploaded and published to the website ‘Funny or Die’ in 2014 and was not removed from the internet until May 2021,” the filing says. Funny or Die told TMZ on Thursday that it had no part in the video.