LOS ANGELES, Oct 18 — Azealia Banks is at it again making headlines and this time she has reportedly filed a police report against Russell Crowe after a fight at a Beverly Hills hotel on Sunday.
In the report, the rapper claims that Crowe used the N-word on her, choked and spat on her during a small gathering at his hotel suite.
According to reports by TMZ, Crowe had invited some guests over to his suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel for dinner and music and among the guests was rapper RZA (real name Robert Diggs), who had brought Banks as his plus-one.
As the night progressed, an “erratic” Banks is said to have mocked Crowe’s music choice and that of another guest, allegedly calling them “boring white men”.
Banks is said to have turned violent after another guest defended Crowe: “You would love it if I broke my glass, stabbed you guys in the throat, and blood would squirt everywhere.”
Crowe reportedly got the rapper in what was described as a “bear hug” walked her out of his suite and called hotel security after she reached for her glass and cocked it back.
The rapper shared her version of what happened in a Facebook post that has since been deleted, but was shared by People: “To recap my night, I went to a party at Russell Crowe’s suite, at which he called me a [racial slur], choked me, threw me out and spat at me. Last night was one of the hardest nights of sleep I’ve had in a long time. The men in the room allowed it to happen. I feel terrible today,” she wrote in one post, then continued in another. “Just feel so low and mishandled and alone and … depressed right now. I wish I had someone to beat him up for me.”
While reports indicate that Crowe’s publicist has not made any comments, a rep for Banks meanwhile has said she wants to set the record straight although still feeling traumatised.
“Azealia is tremendously distraught and disheartened. She is shell shocked and will speak out on the incident once she has had time to process the brutality and abuse she was unjustly subjected to,” her spokesman Raymani Zaloumis-Steele said.
