Shangela, an actor and former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant who also co-hoststhedocuseries We’re Here, is being sued by a former production assistant on the latter show who says he was raped by the star after a wrap party in February 2020.
The actor denies the allegations. In a detailed nine-page filing in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here), Daniel McGarrigle alleges that the actor and drag performer (real name Darius Jeremy “DJ” Pierce) bought him multiple alcoholic drinks during the gathering at an L.A.
restaurant/bar before asking him to return to Pierce’s hotel to help him pack for a flight the next morning. According to the lawsuit, McGarrigle — who says he “did not drink often” — began vomiting at the hotel, and Pierce suggested he lie down on the bed.
At some point, according to the civil suit, McGarrigle awoke and “felt Pierce on the lower half of his body,” committing or attempting to commit sex acts.
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