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Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears.
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Comedians Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears have been accused of exploiting and sexually abusing two minors, according to the Daily Beast. In a September 1 report from a new civil argument based on documents and interviews with the plaintiffs, the outlet says Haddish encouraged her friend’s children going by pseudonym Jane and John Doe to maintain their anonymity \u2014 to participate in explicit sketches, one of which apparently wound up on the website Funny or Die.<\/p>\n

Jane and John were respectively 14 and 7 at the time; now 22 and 15, they claim intense, lingering emotional and psychological distress from the skits. Their lawsuit accuses both comedians of sexually abusing, battering, and harassing a minor, along with the intentional infliction of emotional distress and gross negligence. It separately accuses Haddish of negligent supervision\/failure to warn, breach of fiduciary duty, and constructive fraud, according to the Daily Beast.<\/p>\n

Below, everything we know.<\/p>\n

Per the Daily Beast, Haddish and the plaintiffs’ mother \u201cmet through comedy\u201d and bonded over their divorces. \u201cMessy, messy, messy, messy divorces,\u201d she told the outlet. \u201cWe just got really, really super, super close.\u201d That would’ve been sometime before 2013, when the lawsuit claims Haddish spoke at a then-14-year-old Jane’s camp and offered her \u201ca perfect role\u201d starring in a commercial to be produced by Haddish and Spears. This allegedly involved Jane \u201cmoaning and making sexual noises\u201d while she simulated fellatio on a sub sandwich at the adult comedians’ request. Though Jane says she tried to do what they asked, she allegedly left feeling \u201cphysically, emotionally, and mentally uncomfortable\u201d and as if she hadn’t really delivered on the assignment. She says she didn’t tell her mom, or anybody else, \u201cabout how weird I felt at that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then, a year later, Haddish allegedly approached her friend again about filming a project for John, which turned out to be a sketch titled \u201cThe Mind of a Pedophile.\u201d Both appeared in the clip, but Spears played the eponymous pedophile: He reportedly massaged baby oil into the boy’s bare shoulders \u2014 \u201cJohn spends most of the video clad only in his underwear as Spears’ character leers at him,\u201d per the Daily Beast \u2014 and climbed into a bathtub with him. John says he left the shoot distraught, allegedly with Haddish yelling at him for his failure to cooperate: \u201cI had to kick and scream and cry, and Tiffany came and told me to let him touch me,\u201d John reportedly wrote while in therapy in a statement attached to the argument.<\/p>\n

Responding to the Daily Beast’s report, Funny or Die called the video \u201cabsolutely disgusting\u201d and said \u201cit was uploaded to the site as user-generated content\u201d before being taken down in 2018, presumably after Bossip resurfaced some \u201ctasteless skits\u201d by \u201c sentient dust mite Aries Spears.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Jane and John say their participation in the sketches left them with trust issues that make it difficult for them to form friendships and relationships. \u201cI refuse to be recorded or take pictures because I am scared of weird-ass adults trying to do nasty stuff to me again,\u201d John’s therapy statement reportedly explained. \u201cI spend all of my time in my room and do not go anywhere because I don’t trust anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jane says has also taken over John’s guardianship from their mother, who is not a plaintiff in the lawsuit but told the Daily Beast that her children’s experience contributed to her severe depression. \u201cTo find out that she had violated such a sacred trust \u2014 I trusted her with my children \u2014 that is what pushed me over the edge,\u201d she said of Haddish. She reached a settlement with Spears in 2019, in which he denied all her claims but agreed to stop distribution of the video. The current lawsuit against Haddish and Spears comes from Jane, who filed on behalf of herself and her younger brother. The week after she filed her complaint, Jane also wrote a letter to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n, urging him to arrest and prosecute Haddish and Spears immediately.<\/p>\n

In an Instagram post on Monday, Haddish nodded to the report but explained that she was constrained in what she could say. \u201cI know people have a bunch of questions,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI get it. I’m right there with you. Unfortunately, because there is an ongoing legal case, there’s very little that I can say right now. But, clearly, while the sketch was intended to be comedic, it wasn’t funny at all \u2014 and I deeply regret having agreed to act in it. I really look forward to being able to share a lot more about this situation as soon as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n