Former WME talent agent Adam Venit, who Terry Crews once accused of sexual assault in 2017, is making headlines again after his ex-wife Trina went ahead and filed a lawsuit against him. The legal documents were reportedly filed on Sunday, per Deadline, who claims that Trina is accusing her significant other of sexual battery, assault, domestic violence, stalking, and defamation.
In one of the lawsuit excerpts, her legal team wrote, “Adam’s brazen public assault on an imposing male former professional athlete pales in comparison to the abuse Adam has and continues to inflict on his wife behind closed doors. Over the course of their 20-plus year marriage, Adam has physically, sexually, mentally, emotionally and verbally abused and insistently stalked and monitored Trina.”
This same company, AMI, tried to silence me in my lawsuit against @wme and Adam Venit by fabricating stories of me with prostitutes— and even went so far as creating fake receipts.
I called their bluff by releasing their threats online. They blinked. https://t.co/S6lMZ5K6Tb
— terry crews (@terrycrews) February 8, 2019
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Trina contends that despite having gone their separate ways, her ex has been extremely controlling of her every move, including her communications, surveilling electronic devices, iCloud, and continues to have access to her money, credit, and other personal affairs. The pair married back in August 1999 but began divorce proceedings in March 2021, with Adam later selling their $40 million Beverly Hills home soon after.
Avi Lerner’s support of Bryan Singer is another instance of abusers protecting each other. Lerner was sued for sexual harassment in 2017. In 2018, Terry Crews alleged that Lerner called Crews’ agent and threatened Crews’ career over the Adam Venit case. What’s agenda-driven now? https://t.co/KTIOi0bmmA
— josh jacobs (@ajoshjacobs) January 24, 2019
In September 2018, Terry settled a lawsuit he had filed against Adam who he had accused of groping him at a Hollywood party once. The “White Chicks” star said he was initially too afraid to speak out about the awkward and uncalled-for incident, fearing what it would do to his career in Hollywood.
“This whole thing with Harvey Weinstein is giving me PTSD. Why? Because this kind of thing happened to ME,” Terry tweeted in October 2017. “My wife n I were at a Hollywood function last year n a high level Hollywood executive came over 2 me and groped my privates.”
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“Jumping back I said What are you doing?! My wife saw everything n we looked at him like he was crazy. He just grinned like a jerk.I was going to kick his ass right then— but I thought twice about how the whole thing would appear.240 lbs. ‘Black Man stomps out Hollywood Honcho’ would be the headline the next day.
WME later confirmed that a settlement had, in fact, been reached with Terry, while the case itself had officially been dismissed.