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A federal lawsuit filed in California on Thursday by a woman identified as Jane Doe accuses the DJ and producer Diplo<\/strong> of distributing revenge porn. According to the suit, Doe began communicating with Diplo, born Thomas Wesley Pentz, on Snapchat in April 2016, when she was 21 years old, and they exchanged pornographic images for two months. Doe and Diplo began having sex, according to the suit, and their relationship continued until October 2023, the month before Doe learned that Pentz had been distributing images and videos of their sexual encounters without her knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n Doe\u2019s suit is the second set of revenge porn allegations filed in recent years against Pentz, whose globe-trotting lifestyle has become grist for his prolific social media presence. According to her account, she made Pentz aware that she didn\u2019t want him to record their sexual activities without her consent or distribute images or video to third parties. In November of last year, Doe claims, another woman she didn\u2019t know at the time reached out to her and said she was in possession of images and videos of Pentz and Doe having sex. The woman told Doe that she received the materials from Pentz via Snapchat in October 2018. The suit claims that Diplo continued to distribute Doe\u2019s intimate images and videos up until the present.<\/p>\n On November 7, according to the suit, Doe reported Pentz to the New York Police Department, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The NYPD didn\u2019t immediately return a request for comment, and it\u2019s unclear whether Pentz has been in New York since November.<\/p>\n Representatives for Pentz didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Pentz achieved musical acclaim and prominence during the 2000s, but in more recent years, he has developed a public profile more readily tied to his social ubiquity. A staple of red carpets and A-list sports events, his winking presence tends to land as a Waldo-like trope.<\/p>\n That persona has endured through a separate sexual misconduct case that made headlines for a period beginning in late 2020. In October of that year, a woman named Shelly Auguste<\/strong> alleged that Pentz sexually assaulted her, recorded their sexual activity without consent, and distributed revenge porn. The following year, after Pentz and Auguste sued each other, he denied<\/a> her claims in a detailed Instagram slideshow, calling her a \u201cstalker\u201d attempting to extort him. In September 2022, an arbitrator awarded Pentz $1.2 million after finding that Auguste\u2019s social media posts violated a mutual restraining order she had signed with Pentz.<\/p>\n Auguste is currently suing Pentz for claims including sexual battery and defamation; a civil trial is scheduled for January 2025. In November, according to a Pitchfork report<\/a>, the Los Angeles city attorney\u2019s office began reviewing Auguste\u2019s revenge porn allegations after she filed a police report. (The office didn\u2019t return a request for comment on the status of that review.) \u201cFor more than three years,\u201d Pentz\u2019s attorney Bryan Freedman<\/strong> told the outlet, \u201cShelly Auguste has been orchestrating an ongoing smear campaign against Wes\u2014and this is just more of the same.\u201d<\/p>\n Doe is seeking damages from Pentz for violations of revenge porn statutes. \u201cTragically, this is not the first time the defendant has shamed and violated a woman by disseminating intimate images without her consent,\u201d Helene Weiss,<\/strong> an attorney for Doe, said in a statement. \u201cDiplo\u2019s alleged illicit pattern of behavior illustrates the harm he\u2019s caused Jane Doe, and other young women just like her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n