[Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.]
According to a report from TMZ, two women have accused Noel “Detail” Fisher, an in-demand music producer who worked with Beyoncé on “Drunk In Love,” among other hits—of sexual assault and abuse. The TMZ story comes from legal documents filed by the two accusers, both of whom were up-and-coming artists who allege that Fisher forced them “to have sex with him in front of others” and of “essentially making [them] his sex slaves.” The two say that they saw Fisher as a “mentor,” but that he sexually coerced them by telling them that this was only way to make it in the music industry.
The two also allege that Fisher became physically violent in recent months; in addition to sexually assaulting them, one says that he “grabbed her by the hair, hit, and choked her,” leaving her with “bruises on her arms, head, back, and legs” just last week. The other says that he once “got violent and slammed her head into a wall and dragged her up a flight of stairs.” Both of the women have been granted restraining orders against Fisher. After TMZ’s story broke, singer Jessie Reyez also revealed on Twitter that her single “Gatekeeper” is about Fisher.