WHAT RAPE CULTURE?: CeeLo Green: Drug Charge for Date Rape Drug, but no Rape Charge
On Friday, CeeLo Green pleaded no contest to a felony count of providing Ecstasy to a woman in 2012. The unnamed woman accused the former The Voice judge of spiking her drink after meeting at a sushi restaurant. The woman stated that the next thing she realized she had awakened in a bedroom naked, with Green in the room. She stated that she had recordings of Green apologizing and making references to the Ecstasy that was used.
According to the Review Journal, prosecutors in the case rejected a rape charge but Green was hit with the felony drug charge instead. Green’s attorney, Blair Berk, stated that the sex was consensual, but that Green did supply the woman with the drug.
A Los Angeles judge sentenced Green to three years’ formal probation and 45 days’ community service. In addition to the sentence, Green has to undergo drug and alcohol counseling. His no-contest plea cannot be used against him if a civil case is filed against him.
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Police sources have told TMZ that her story was flawed, primarily because she had been dating CeeLo for some time prior to the alleged incident, and also because she had previously been intimate with the singer.
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