Through Jeroslyn Jovonn
May 29, 2025
The wife of Akon suggests Publix to a male employee who “violated” her sexually at Self -Korte.
One of the nine women of Grammy-winning singer Akon suggests Publix Super Markets about a former employee who has sexually abused her.
New uncovered judicial documents detail A lawsuit associated with an incident in September 2022 at a Publix in Roswell, Georgia, Allchop reports. Akon’s wife, Amirah Iman-Thiam, claims that a confrontation with shopping clerk Jonathan Ross left her emotionally sad, causing her to cancel a European tour of 12 cities, resulting in $ 287,000 in lost costs and derailed planned partners.
“My creativity is gone,” Iman-Thiam told her therapist.
She has resorted to Instacart deliveries and $ 150 per hour of security when performing essential messages after Ross had touched her buttocks and vaginal areas while she scanned groceries on the self-control station, says the court case.
“That dress brought me to reconsider my lunch break,” Ross reportedly said to Iman-Tiam before he touched her inappropriate.
The store manager later acknowledged that Ross had shown erratic behavior for months, but was still allowed to communicate with customers without supervision. Bodycam images visibly conquered Iman-Thiam shocked, her voice vibrated while she spoke with responding officers.
“He just violated me,” she told officers.
The court who submits details about the fact that the incident has seriously affected the personal and professional life of Iman-Thiam “, with reference to the trauma that led her to cancel a global tour that was expected to earn $ 4 million. It also notes that because of its religious beliefs they underwent a spiritual cleaning.
“Mrs. Lman-Tiam is the wife of the famous singer and producer Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam (‘Akon’). She is an emerging recording artist and rapper with Konvict Muzik,” says the court case.
“As a result of the negligence of Publix, Mrs. Lman-Thiam also suffered from a seriously emotional and physical trauma. Mrs Iman-Thiam and her husband are pious Muslims. Cultural his Muslim women are forbidden to receive physical, sexual contact from anyone who is not their husband. This is a strict prohibition in Islamic faith.”
The application took place. “In the light of the sexual battery, Mrs. Iman-Thiam had to clean and look for therapy from an imam (a priest) in Senegal (that is her husband’s home country). For about one (1) year she had to pray six (6) times a day. Canceled.”
Publix has submitted a motion to reject the lawsuit, with the argument that Ross acted outside the reach of his employment. The legal team of Iman-Thiam, however, pushed back, pointing to the lack of protocols for sexual harassment for front line employees, despite the fact that 19 similar incidents have been reported in the state since 2020.
Akon’s wife is looking for punitive compensation for emotional need and reputation damage, where her lawyers claim that the company gave priority to profit above the right background controls.
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