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Snoop Dogg and Perez Hilton sued over alleged SxSW altercation
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 21 March 2012
Both Snoop Dogg and Perez Hilton have been named in a lawsuit following an alleged assault by the former’s tour manager against a female driver at a SxSW party organised by the latter. This incident is alleged to have occurred at the 2010 edition of South By. Claimant Kim McGee says she was hired by concert promoters C3 Presents to drive Snoop Dogg and his entourage from his hotel to a party being thrown by Hilton during the Austin music festival that year.
On the way to the party McGee says Snoop’s tour manager Frank Palomino was verbally abusive, to the extent that she decided she would not drive the rapper or his people back to their hotel at the end of the night. She says that when she informed a C3 rep of this fact, he told her to tell Palomino directly. But when she did so, she claims, the tour manager assaulted her, lifting her off the ground, pulling her hair, dragging her to another room, and then throwing her onto a concrete floor.
McGee is suing Palomino, but also Snoop and C3, claiming that the former and the latter’s representative witnessed the assault and did nothing to stop it, or to help her once the ordeal was over. She is also suing Hilton and two other companies, arguing that the organisers of the party and owners of the venue had a duty to protect her.
According to the Courthouse News Service, her claim says: “Even after Palomino assaulted the plaintiff and left the area, [C3’s representative] refused to assist the plaintiff in obtaining medical assistance or even transportation to a medical facility. [He] also refused to provide the plaintiff with the name of her assailant. Further, none of the venue’s security personnel attempted to stop the assault or, after it was over, detain Palomino. Nor did they call police or assist the plaintiff in obtaining transportation to the hospital”.
None of the various defendants have as yet responded to McGee’s claims.
