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Amber Coffman, lead singer of Dirty Projectors and featured vocalist for Major Lazer’s ‘Get Free’, took to her Twitter today to very publicly call out founder of Life or Death PR and Management Heathcliff Berru, alledging he sexually assaulting her in front of fellow music industry peers.
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https://twitter.com/Amber_Coffman/status/689289076319490049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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In a phone interview with New York Magazine, Coffman says she met Berru at an Unknown Mortal Orchestra concert in Los Angeles and the assault took place a week later in New York.
Soon after Coffman publicly talked about the assault, she received responses from other musicians and women in the music industry who expressed their support and shared their own experiences with Berru, including Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast:
Thank you @Amber_Coffman for bravely speaking the truth. Heathcliff Berru is a scumbag and I'm glad someone finally spoke up.
— Bethany Cosentino (@BethanyCoast) January 19, 2016
@motormouthmedia @Amber_Coffman I'm so sad to hear so many women have had this experience w/ him but I'm happy it's being brought to light
— Bethany Cosentino (@BethanyCoast) January 19, 2016
Beth Martinez of PR firm Danger Village:
.@Amber_Coffman he repeatedly put his hand down my shirt while driving me home after I told him to stop many times
— Beth Martinez. Hero. (@dangervillage) January 19, 2016
@Amber_Coffman also I'm fairly certain I've been roofied by him or members of his crew on more than one occasion
— Beth Martinez. Hero. (@dangervillage) January 19, 2016
Yasmine Kittles of Tearist:
Thank you @Amber_Coffman in 2009 he grabbed my ass and then held me down onto my couch as he unzipped his pants &forced my hand on his dick.
— TEARIST (@_TEARIST_) January 19, 2016
. @Amber_Coffman I felt humiliated and violated and alone. I told some of he & I's mutual guy friends & no one helped me… My own "friends"
— TEARIST (@_TEARIST_) January 19, 2016
. @Amber_Coffman I wanted to speak out, but I was scared- of the backlash, seeming like a victim, of defending myself & having to relive it
— TEARIST (@_TEARIST_) January 19, 2016
Agencies/Canadajournal
