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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Justin Rohrlich

Fashion designer Riccardo Tisci accused of drugging and sexually assaulting New York restaurant-goer

Riccardo Tisci has headed up fashion houses Givenchy and Burberry. He is accused of sexually assaulting a man he met at a New York City restaurant - (Getty Images)

A New York man claims iconic fashion designer Riccardo Tisci drugged his drink while out at an East Harlem restaurant, after which he woke up in the former Givenchy creative director’s multimillion-dollar townhouse, naked, without any idea how he got there.

In a state lawsuit filed Tuesday, Patrick Cooper accuses Tisci of sexually assaulting him while he was under the influence and unable to consent, alleging the 50-year-old dosed him with an unknown substance in order to make him “so disorientated as to no longer know where he was, what he was doing, or what other people, particularly [Tisci], was [sic] doing to him.”

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