One of many greatest names in trend must defend their title in court docket. Riccardo Tisci has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a person.
Hypebeast is reporting that the esteemed designer has been hit with a lawsuit that claims he’s predator. A person named Patrick Cooper says he met the previous inventive director of Burberry and Givenchy again in June of 2024 via a mutual pal. The three loved an evening out with meals and drinks. Whereas at Harlem hotspot 2 Sisters 4 Brothers, he believes Riccardo Tisci discreetly slipped a drug into his cocktail rendering him “unable to battle, cease or defend himself.” In an unique interview with the Unbiased he detailed his expertise.
“I keep in mind sipping the drink, and I don’t keep in mind anything,” Cooper defined. “To this present day, I nonetheless don’t keep in mind something. Nothing.” Cooper went on to element that the subsequent factor he remembered was waking up in Tisci’s SoHo townhouse. “My intentions have been by no means to finish up in Riccardo Tisci’s mattress. Once I awakened, he was kissing me,” he added. Cooper says after gathering himself he went to the hospital for rape testing and filed a report with native New York Metropolis police.
Patrick reveals he contacted Tisci the subsequent day and the designer claimed he didn’t keep in mind him in any respect. “I despatched the image, and he goes, ‘I nonetheless don’t keep in mind you,’” Cooper mentioned. “I instructed him, ‘How do you not keep in mind me? I used to be at your own home.’ He goes, ‘Oh yeah, I keep in mind you now. Nothing occurred.’ I mentioned, ‘I awakened bare.’ He mentioned, ‘No, you had garments on.’ And that’s after I knew.”
The Unbiased reached out to Riccardo Tisci for remark however he instantly hung up the telephone. His agent Anne Nelson of United Expertise Company instructed the periodical “I remorse to tell you that I can not touch upon any issues associated to the pending litigation.” A consultant from the NYPD offered no additional particulars on the case. “The NYPD takes sexual assault and rape instances extraordinarily significantly, and urges anybody who has been a sufferer to file a police report so we are able to carry out a complete investigation, and supply assist and companies to survivors.”
Riccardo Tisci is accused of assault, battery, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
