The woman who accused Nelly of rape declined to appear in court to testify against him, but she is still bringing defamation and sexual assault charges against him in a new lawsuit.
Monique Greene claimed that she met Nelly at a Seattle nightclub where she worked. She had been drinking, and he invited her to an after-party on his tour bus.
There, she claimed, the two of them went to his bedroom.
Greene claimed that Nelly then forced her to have oral and vaginal sex with him. She tried to deter him by pointing out that he wasn’t wearing a condom, but he had sex with her anyway.
She claimed that she screamed that she wanted to get off the bus. At that point, someone pushed her off the vehicle, to which Nelly threw $100 at her.
“Bye, bye,” he allegedly told her.
She called police, who arrested Nelly for rape, and had a rape kit performed. However, Greene declined to testify against him in October, and that has her credibility on thin ice.
Greene’s refusal to testify
After Nelly’s arrest, Greene refused to go to court to testify against him. And that refusal is part of what fueled Nelly’s legal team’s claims that she made up the rape charges for “money, fame and notoriety.”
Now, Greene is suing Nelly for defamation over the claims. She is also suing him for sexual assault.
“People are saying horrible things already,” lawyer Karen Koehler said. “She cannot handle this. She is about to break.”
On the other hand, Nelly’s lawyer, Scott Rosenblum, responded to the suit by telling TMZ it was “no surprise that Ms. Green filed a lawsuit against Nelly seeking money after we announced our intention to hold her accountable. We always believed her accusation was motivated by greed.”
Rosenblum also said that Nelly plans to file a countersuit against Greene.