LA Lakers legend Byron Scott has been accused of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl in a janitor’s closet when he was a younger, married sporting star.
Particulars of the case are included in explosive paperwork obtained by Every day Mail this week.
The incident occurred 38 years in the past in a locked janitor’s closet at an unique personal college in LA. It was the summer season of 1987, and Scott was on the college for an occasion with the Lakers staff, in accordance with a verified amended grievance.
The plaintiff, Hayley Dylan, who was 15 on the time, has chosen to disclose her identification relatively than stay nameless.
Shockingly, Scott, now 64, admits that he had sexual contact with the woman however says he thought she was 18.
Scott’s legal professional, Linda Bauermeister, advised Every day Mail: ‘Our shopper is devastated by this grievance, a basketball occasion that came about in 1987.
‘Our shopper believed the plaintiff to be over 18 and had no concept she would declare in any other case till 35 years later.
‘He respects women and girls, and the claims have blindsided him and his household.’
Scott was married to first spouse Anita Scott, 66, whom he divorced in 2014, on the time.
Byron Scott has been accused of sexual assault by a schoolgirl he had a sexual encounter with in 1987. He’s pictured in 1986
Scott was married to his first spouse, Anita, when the encounter at Campbell Corridor College came about. He admits an encounter with the woman, telling Every day Mail by means of his rep that he thought she was over 18
Within the lawsuit, the now 53-year-old accuses the NBA celebrity of sexual battery, sexual assault, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
Dylan additionally names Campbell Corridor College, the place she was a scholar on the time and the place the assault allegedly occurred, as a defendant for not defending her from Scott.
Earlier than the incident, Dylan was a younger woman who ‘cherished college’ and had ‘by no means kissed a boy.’
Afterwards, her ‘innocence was shattered, and her life ceaselessly altered,’ in accordance with the grievance.
The 20-page lawsuit particulars how Scott, who was 26 on the time, allegedly pressured himself on the woman after escorting her into an space of the varsity’s gymnasium away from different adults.
Dylan was taking a math summer season class on the college throughout the identical time a number of Lakers gamers had been filming an educational basketball video within the gymnasium after which additionally met with college students, mother and father and school members.
The alleged assault occurred on the Campbell Corridor College, proven, in 1987 inside a janitor’s closet
Throughout a break in filming, workers and fogeys had been with the gamers till being requested to go away the gymnasium as taping was about to renew.
However then, the grievance claims, Scott pointed to Dylan and advised manufacturing workers: ‘She will keep.’
Regardless of the teenager being left alone with adults, ‘Campbell Corridor college and workers did not take any steps or implement any safeguards to oversee or in any other case shield Plaintiff from something that might, and ultimately would, occur to her,’ the grievance reads.
As an alternative, per the court docket report, college officers noticed it as a chance for Hayley to amass autographs for them from the sports activities star.
The college’s then athletic director took {a photograph} of Hayley with Scott as they sat collectively on the bleachers – with the woman positioned between his knees on a decrease step.
The picture was then displayed within the athletic director’s workplace, the grievance says.
Later, Scott requested Hayley to have lunch with him which, in accordance with the swimsuit, was a part of a plan designed to ‘achieve Hayley’s belief and to additional isolate her.’
The 2 picked up meals from the craft providers and Scott took Hayley into the drama theater positioned subsequent to the gymnasium the place they ate collectively at a spherical desk. At one level, two of her buddies got here into the opposite aspect of the theater briefly and left.
The 6’ 4” taking pictures guard first performed for the Lakers from 1983 – 1993, through the staff’s heroic ‘Showtime’ period, and had a second stint from 1996 to 1997
Byron Scott with actor Jack Black, taken on the Crypto.com Area and posted to Scott’s Instagram account on April 22
When filming completed for the day, Scott requested Haley to present him a tour of the varsity’s weight room and different gymnasium amenities which had been positioned beneath the varsity’s basketball court docket.
Hayley, ‘proud and excited to have the ability to showcase her college to somebody she admired,’ agreed.
Issues rapidly took a flip for the more serious once they had been downstairs alone, in accordance with the grievance.
That’s when Scott discovered an unmarked door on the finish of a hallway which he opened, went inside, flicked the sunshine on and off and examined the lock. The room was a janitor’s closet.
He then ‘forcefully grabbed Hayley by the arm and pulled her contained in the room’ leaving her ‘frightened and confused.’
Scott then ‘started kissing her on the mouth as she repeatedly requested “what are you doing?”
‘Then, regardless of her clear protests, Scott pushed Hayley to her knees, and, towards her will, pulled off her prime. Scott the pulled down his shorts, uncovered his erect penis, and tried to drive Hayley to carry out oral intercourse on him.’
Hayley was ‘terrified’ and ‘pleaded for Scott to cease and tried to show her head away from his erect penis,’ the grievance claims.
Finally, the grievance says, Scott relented and advised his sufferer to rise up off the ground and dress then he unlocked the door so she may depart.
Scott’s teammates, the Lakers assistant coach, coach and movie manufacturing workers had seen him lead Hayley away after which return roughly 20 minutes later, in accordance with the grievance.
By then, Campbell Corridor workers, college students and fogeys had departed for the day.
The gamers and manufacturing crew had been having a wrap social gathering exterior the gymnasium the place alcohol was being served, the swimsuit says. It continues that Scott gave Hayley a beverage – apparently alcohol – which she threw away after one sip. She had by no means tasted alcohol beforehand.
By now, Hayley’s ‘thoughts was reeling’ and he or she was ‘scared’ and ‘disoriented.’
With no college workers or mother and father readily available, she had no technique to get to her dwelling in Encino just a few miles west.
Scott (left) with fellow Lakers legend Kobe Bryant in 2015 throughout a sport towards the Atlanta Hawks
In response to Hayley’s lawsuit, Scott took her to his automobile – a purple, two-door Mercedes – the place they sat and talked for 5 minutes, with the participant centered on discouraging her from telling anybody in regards to the assault.
He recommended the 2 may ‘hang around’ and gave her some Lakers merchandise from the trunk of the automobile, together with a satin gymnasium bag along with his jersey quantity on it. Scott wore the quantity 4 for the Lakers.
He ultimately requested a teammate, who additionally lived in Encino, if he may take Hayley dwelling however the participant – apparently recognizing the inappropriate nature of driving alone with an odd teen, responded: ‘F**okay, no. I’m not placing that woman in my automobile.’
As an alternative, she used a payphone to name her mom who picked her up.
It was twenty years later when she realized that rumors of the assault had circulated across the college on the time, when one former scholar requested her: ‘Are you the woman that connected with Byron Scott?’
‘Within the years that adopted Scott’s sexual assault and battery, Hayley suffered, and he or she continues to undergo, extreme psychological and emotional misery, in addition to emotions of embarrassment, lack of vanity, disgrace, and humiliation,’ states the swimsuit.
Scott and second spouse CeCe Gutierrez seen collectively on the purple carpet on March 13 this yr
Dylan – previously Hayley Mendell – is represented by legal professional Kerry Garvis Wright of regulation agency Glaser Weil, who declined to remark to Every day Mail.
Regardless of the space of years, Dylan selected to come back ahead after California Governor Gavin Newsom enacted the California Little one Victims Act, which grew to become regulation on January 1, 2020, and prolonged the statute of limitations for decades-old youngster intercourse instances.
‘Whereas nonetheless a tough choice to come back ahead now and relive the trauma Hayley is bravely doing so to shine a light-weight and to hunt some quantity of justice and hopefully closure for the numerous psychological trauma and emotional misery that she has skilled every single day for the reason that sexual assault,’ per the swimsuit.
The 6’ 4” taking pictures guard first performed for the Lakers from 1983 – 1993, through the staff’s heroic ‘Showtime’ period, and had a second stint from 1996 to 1997.
The Showtime interval for the Lakers ran from the late Seventies to the early Nineteen Nineties and have become essentially the most iconic interval in skilled basketball historical past – outlined by its fast-paced fashion of play, charismatic gamers, and dazzling array of expertise.
Now 64, he received three NBA championships with the staff, in 1985, 1987 and 1988 and was head coach from 2014 – 2016.
He additionally performed for the Indiana Pacers and the Vancouver Grizzlies. He was assistant coach of the Sacramento Kings from 1998 – 2000 and received NBA Coach of the Yr in 2008.
The daddy of three has two sons and a daughter. He married second spouse Cecilia ‘CeCe’ Gutierrez, 53, in 2020 who has 134,000 followers on Instagram and describes herself as an ‘entrepreneur, nurse and philanthropist’. She runs a medical spa and has appeared on the VH1 actuality present Basketball Wives LA.
Scott and CeCe Gutierrez tied the knot throughout a lavish marriage ceremony ceremony in 2020
Scott lives in a $2.4 million home positioned 28 miles northwest of the Crypto.com Area in downtown LA, the Lakers dwelling court docket.
The 4,400 sq. ft property, inbuilt 1996, has 5 bedrooms, six bogs, a swimming pool and basketball half-court.
In response to the swimsuit, ‘Regardless of having an affirmative responsibility to take affordable steps to guard Plaintiff from foreseeable dangers of hurt, Campbell Corridor and its brokers acted outrageously by did not intercede, or in any other case taking any affordable steps or to implement affordable safeguards to keep away from the sexual assault dedicated by Scott.’
Attorneys representing the varsity declined to remark to Every day Mail in regards to the case.
Positioned within the Studio Metropolis space of LA, the varsity prices $54,000 per yr for college students in grades six by means of 12.
It payments itself as a ‘gender-inclusive day college’ and a ‘group of inquiry dedicated to tutorial excellence and to the nurturing of respectable, loving, and accountable human beings.’
A quantity Hollywood celebrities have handed by means of its school rooms of their teen years, together with sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning, the Olsen sisters – Ashley, Mary-Kate and Elizabeth – director Paul Thomas Anderson, Fashionable Household actress Ariel Winter and Denzel Washington’s Tenet actor son John David Washington.
Hayley is in search of a trial by jury and damages of over $25,000, together with lack of earnings, and legal professional charges to be paid by Scott and Campbell Corridor.
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