Indeed, per
XXL, who reported on the situation when it occurred in 1995, Tupac was sentenced to 1.5 to 4.5 years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a female fan named Ayanna Jackson.
Ayanna claimed that she and Tupac had been physically intimate a few days prior to the assault. However, she stated that when she met the rapper and his friends at the Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City that fateful day, the group proceeded to rape her.
Tupac claimed during a 1994 appearance on
The Arsenio Hall Show that the encounter was consensual.
What happened on the night of the alleged rape?
So we''re all sitting there talking, and she's making me uncomfortable, because instead of sitting with Nigel and them, she's sitting on the arm of my chair. And Nigel and Trevor are looking at her like a chicken, like she's, like, food. It's a real uncomfortable situation. So I''m thinking, Okay, I''m going to take her to the room and get a massage. I''m thinking about being with her that night at Nell's. So we get in the room, I''m laying on my stomach, she's massaging my back. I turn around. She starts massaging my front. This lasted for about a half an hour. In between, we would stop and kiss each other. I''m thinking she's about to give me another blow job. But before she could do that, some ni**as came in, and I froze up more than she froze up. If she would have said anything, I would have said, "Hold on, let me finish." But I can''t say nothing, because she's not saying nothing. How do I look saying, "Hold on"? That would be like I''m making her my girl.
So they came and they started touching her a**. They going, "Oooh, she's got a nice a**." Nigel isn''t touching her, but I can hear his voice leading it, like, "Put her panties down, put her pantyhose down." I just got up and walked out the room.
When I went to the other suite, Man-man told me that Talibah, my publicist at the time, had been there for a while and was waiting in the bedroom of that suite. I went to see Talibah and we talked about what she had been doing during the day, then I went and laid down on the couch and went to sleep. When I woke up, Nigel was standing over me going, "Pac, Pac," and all the lights was on in both rooms. The whole mood had changed, you know what I''m saying? I felt like I was drugged. I didn''t know how much time had passed.
So when I woke up, it was, like, "You''re going to the police, you''re going to the police." Nigel walks out the room, comes back with the girl. Her clothes is on; ain''t nothing tore. She just upset, crying hysterically. "Why you let them do this to me?" She's not making sense. "I came to see you. You let them do this to me." I''m, like, "I don''t got time for this shit right here. You got to chill out with that shit. Stop yelling at me and looking at me all crazy." She said, "This not the last time you''re going to hear from me," and slammed the door. And Nigel goes, "Don''t worry about it, Pac, don''t worry. I''ll handle it. She just tripping." I asked him what happened, and he was, like, "Too many ni**as." You know, I ain''t even tripping no more, you know? ni**as start going downstairs, but nobody was coming back upstairs. I''m sitting upstairs smoking weed, like, Where the f*ck is everybody at? Then I get a call from Talibah from the lobby saying, "The police is down here."
Revisit VIBE’s April 1995 cover story featuring Tupac, written by Kevin Powell.
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I'm not deflecting anything.
at the ed of the day the reality is him admitting being gay wouldnt make people....people in his own community stop fucking with him. So this notion that all he has to do is tell the truth and it would be over is just not true...you know this.
I suppose he could do the Kobe Defense...remember when Kobe had to publicly admit he cheated on his wife and had consensual sex with another woman.... becuz the defense is as long as he's admits to being a cheater then he's not a rapist. It totally fucked up his good guy image brand at the time but hey he was trying to stay outta jail!
Howard could do a version of that...but its a pick your poison way of doing things.