A sex assault lawsuit against Murder Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti has been dismissed after he died from a massive stroke on Wednesday, Feb. 5. He was 54.
Gotti was on a ventilator in an ICU after suffering a stroke. Family and friends prayed for his recovery but doctors declared him brain dead on Feb. 4. He was removed from a ventilator on Feb. 5.
Gotti’s health history included Type 1 diabetes and multiple strokes. It is not known whether he was vaccinated.
In an August 2023 interview on the “Drink Champs” podcast, Gotti said, “My diabetes, my number’s been high… What it does is it starts deteriorating your body.” He answered “no” when asked whether his diabetes is “under control.”
In an August 2024 interview with TMZ, a representative said Gotti’s uncontrolled diabetes “caused him to have a minor stroke over six months ago.”
Gotti’s career began as a DJ spinning records in Queens, NY parks. He rose to become a founder of Murder Inc. Records, which launched the careers of Ashanti, Ja Rule, Charli Baltimore, Lloyd, and others.
The music producer is pictured with one of his artists in a photo dated March 6, 2016 in Hollywood, California.
Last year a Florida woman filed a lawsuit against Gotti in Miami. The woman alleged Gotti sexually assaulted and abused her over a two-year period from 2020 to 2022.
The woman, identified in court papers as “Jane Doe,” claimed she suffered “severe emotional and psychological harm for which she had to be committed to a psychiatric ward.
Doe alleged that she and Gotti met through a mutual friend at a poker tournament in the summer of 2020. Gotti flew her to Saint Martin for an all-expenses paid vacation.
She said the music producer forced her to have sex with him, and threatened to send her home if she didn’t.
“Due to his power and influence in the music world, she complied,” the lawsuit stated.
After the trip to Saint Martin, the woman and Gotti began dating, according to the lawsuit.
The suit claims that during their two-year relationship, she “suffered constant abuse” at the hands of the rap mogul, who demanded that she perform unwanted sexual acts and berated her.
She said Gotti flew her to Miami in January 2022. They stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel, where he forced her to perform oral sex on him in the elevator.
A similar incident occurred in Atlanta that summer, according to court papers. He allegedly forced her to perform oral sex on him in an Uber.
Their relationship ended after that incident.
