Alexander Wang
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Days after a male model publicly accused Alexander Wang of palpating him, which spawned a series of sexual assault charges against the celebrity’s favorite stylist, Wang finally broke the silence on the subject. Wang denounced the charges – which include drugs and rape – as “baseless and grotesquely false” in a statement to New York Times.
“I was never involved in the atrocious behavior described and I would never behave the way it was alleged,” wrote Wang. “I intend to get to the bottom of this and hold those who are responsible for originating these claims responsible and disseminating them viciously online.”
The charges started to rise late last week after model Owen Mooney accused Wang of grabbing his genitals in a crowded New York nightclub in 2017. In a video shared with TikTok, Mooney said: “I was alone in a point and this guy later for me obviously took advantage of the fact that nobody could move and just started touching me, like, totally on my leg, on my groin. “Although Mooney did not initially reveal Wang’s identity in the first video and only referred to the man as a” really famous fashion designer, “he says in a subsequent video that he decided to identify Wang after several commentators correctly guessed the designer.” It turns out that Alexander Wang is a massive sexual predator, ”said Mooney.
After the Instagram account ShitModelMgmt posted Mooney’s videos, more allegations started to roll, which this account, like Diet Prada, compiled and shared. The stories paint a disturbing image of Wang, who is known for his fun parties: some claim that he drugged them with water mixed with MDMA or forced them to drink beyond their limits; one person claims that Wang raped his friend. “The stylist built his brand around hard parties, anything goes, creating campaigns inspired by the ‘walk of shame’ and even climbing R. Kelly for his SS17 campaign”, says the caption in Diet Prada’s post. “But now, stories behind the velvet rope are spreading.”
In his testimony, Wang looks at the aforementioned reports, characterizing them as “infamous for posting defamatory material from undisclosed and / or anonymous sources with no evidence or any factual verification”. O Times notes that it has not independently corroborated the recent allegations against Wang and that Mooney has not responded to several requests for comment.
As Diet Prada noted, this is not the first time that Wang has been accused of predatory behavior. In late 2019, Azealia Banks – who has collaborated with Wang in the past – shared anonymous allegations of sexual assault against the designer, accusing him of targeting trans women. Two years before that, the Times he adds, a man named Nick Ward accused Wang of grabbing his genitals during a concert in Brooklyn.