DeMario Jackson, whose habits on the “Bachelor” franchise led to a misconduct investigation, has been accused of raping two ladies.

On Tuesday, two Jane Does filed a grievance in opposition to Jackson in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket alleging that Jackson sexually assaulted them. Within the authorized doc, each ladies declare that they individually went on dates with Jackson that ended with him forcing them into nonconsensual intercourse.

Each Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 subsequently reported their alleged assaults to the Rape Therapy Middle at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Middle.

“The allegations introduced in opposition to him are utterly unfounded,” Jackson’s legal professional, Walter Mosley, wrote in a press release to The Occasions. “Because the Plaintiffs’ personal grievance clearly states, the police, who DeMario totally cooperated with over 3 years in the past, discovered these ladies’s accusations to don’t have any advantage after which refused to pursue the matter. Within the days to return, we are going to launch the proof we shared with the police on the time of the alleged incidents. Sadly, DeMario and I should take up this battle once more to clear his identify. Like earlier than, we could have [the] identical name-clearing outcome.”

Each ladies declare that they met Jackson, now 35, after his stint on two actuality tv applications. In Might 2017, he first appeared on ABC’s “The Bachelorette” as one among 31 males vying for the love of lead Rachel Lindsay. Early on within the season, Jackson was kicked off the present by Lindsay after a lady confirmed up on set claiming to be his girlfriend.

However after the present wrapped, he was solid on “Bachelor in Paradise,” a derivative during which earlier contestants from “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” compete for love on the seashores of Mexico. Manufacturing started in June, but it surely rapidly got here to a halt when Warner Bros., which produces the sequence, introduced it was suspending filming after turning into “conscious of allegations of misconduct” on set that required “an intensive investigation.”

Although Warner Bros. didn’t identify the solid members on the middle of the investigation, Jackson and his co-star Corinne Olympios later publicly confirmed that they had been the events in query. Shortly after cameras started rolling in Sayulita, Jackson and Olympios had been consuming and kissing one another, in keeping with two sources with information of the state of affairs. That night, the sources advised The Occasions, they engaged in intercourse acts in a scorching tub whereas in view of solid and crew.

The next morning, the sources stated, producers spoke to Olympios concerning the encounter with Jackson. She advised them she had been so inebriated that she couldn’t recall the incident, inflicting producers to report the state of affairs to studio executives. Manufacturing was suspended shortly thereafter.

Jackson denied any misconduct occurred. Olympios launched a press release during which she described herself as “a sufferer” who had “little reminiscence of that evening” however stated that “one thing dangerous clearly occurred.” (Olympios, Warner Bros. and ABC didn’t reply to requests for touch upon this story.)

Somewhat greater than per week after launching an inner investigation, nonetheless, Warner Bros. introduced that the inquiry did “not assist any cost of misconduct by a solid member … [or] that the security of any solid member was ever in jeopardy.” When manufacturing on “Bachelor in Paradise” resumed in late June, Jackson and Olympios didn’t return to Mexico. Host Chris Harrison led the remaining solid members in a dialogue about consent.

Eight months later, Jane Doe 1 stated she met Jackson on a relationship app. She had by no means seen “Bachelor in Paradise,” however when she confirmed her pals Jackson’s Bumble profile, she stated they brushed over the misconduct allegations.

“They had been like, ‘No, he’s reliable. Afterwards, Corinne stated nothing really occurred,’” stated Doe 1, now 26, in an interview.

Two months after Olympios described herself as a sufferer, ABC aired a sit-down between her and Harrison during which she stated that she had “nothing in opposition to” Jackson. “There’s no method for you guys to know that she’s mentally checked out,” she advised Harrison, referring to herself within the third particular person. “That Corinne shouldn’t be right here proper now. Which is past scary, however it’s what it’s, I suppose. I don’t assume that it’s anybody’s fault.”

Doe 1, then a senior at USC, stated in her authorized grievance she felt comfy going out with Jackson and met him at a bar in downtown L.A. for his or her first date. In keeping with the grievance, on the finish of the evening he provided to drive her again to campus. As she went to exit the automotive, he kissed her and immediately “uncovered his penis,” in keeping with the lawsuit.

“Jane Doe 1 was shocked and felt trapped,” the grievance says. “She was not prepared for this assembly to escalate so rapidly. In an try and set boundaries, Jane Doe 1 advised Defendant that his habits was unacceptable.”

He apologized, and feeling he was honest, Doe 1 stated she continued to see Jackson. On their third date, the grievance says, that they had consensual intercourse with a condom.

Then, on Feb. 16, 2018, Doe 1 was out along with her pals in Chinatown when she stated Jackson started repeatedly texting and calling her. After he “demanded” to know her location, she advised him the place she was, and he “appeared intoxicated” when he arrived, in keeping with the grievance. He refused to pay the duvet cost on the institution and “started making a scene,” so to keep away from additional embarrassment she invited him to her house to “sleep it off,” the grievance says.

At her condo, she advised him “there could be no sexual exercise between them.” However as she started to go to sleep, she stated she felt Jackson’s physique on prime of hers. She pushed him off and advised him she didn’t wish to have intercourse, however in keeping with the grievance he continued to attempt to get on prime of her two extra occasions regardless of her resistance.

“On the fourth and ultimate try, defendant DeMario Jackson pinned Jane Doe 1 down on the mattress,” the grievance says. “[He] then forcefully sexually assaulted Jane Doe 1 by violently shoving his unprotected penis into her unlubricated vagina.”

Doe 1 stated she repeatedly screamed “no” regardless of barely with the ability to breathe.

“I couldn’t transfer, so all I might assume to do was to say, ‘No, no, cease!’ And he simply ignored me. It was like he didn’t even hear me,” she recalled by tears. “I simply saved pondering: ‘Simply preserve saying no. Nobody can ever take that away from you. When you’re going to die, you’ll know you fought the one method you possibly can.’”

All of the sudden, Doe 1 stated, Jackson checked out her and stated: “Inform me you like me.” She didn’t reply, however he saved urging her to utter the phrases.

“He was getting extra aggressive, and I felt like I needed to say it or it was going to worsen. So I simply stated it. It was like he needed full management over each a part of me,” she stated. “He made me say it once more, after which he completed and rolled off of me. He checked out me and stated, ‘Are you OK?’ And I’m actually sitting there shaking.”

She advised him to “get the f— out” and he gathered his issues, unintentionally leaving his underwear behind, she stated.

She then locked herself in her room and instantly started reaching out to her household and pals, although it was the midnight.

“Please,” she texted a good friend in a message alternate she offered to The Occasions. “I’m shaking.”

“Are u with Demario,” the good friend responded.

“Sure and it bought dangerous,” Doe 1 replied.

Just a few hours later, Doe 1 stated, her good friend arrived at her condo and drove her to the Rape Therapy Middle. In keeping with a medical doc reviewed by The Occasions, Doe 1 obtained a sexual assault examination, STD testing and antibiotics on the facility on Feb. 17, 2018. A report of the alleged assault was submitted to the Los Angeles Police Division that very same day.

LAPD Det. Esther MyaPe, who dealt with Doe 1 and a pair of’s circumstances, didn’t reply to The Occasions’ request for touch upon this story. In keeping with a declination memo offered to The Occasions by the L.A. district legal professional’s workplace, the case was reviewed and the DA declined to prosecute Jackson in April 2021 on two counts of sexual assault “resulting from insufficiency of the proof.”

After that, Doe 1 stated, she started looking for authorized counsel. One of many attorneys she spoke to was Keith Davidson, who she stated was initially reluctant to take her case till he obtained a name from one other girl who claimed she had been assaulted by Jackson: Jane Doe 2.

The second girl, now 28, first met Jackson in March 2019. She was standing on the Amtrak station in San Diego, ready for a prepare again to L.A., when the 2 struck up a pleasant dialog after which parted methods.

Later, she realized that she’d really seen Jackson earlier than, on “The Bachelorette.” As a fan of the franchise, she was aware of what had occurred on his season of “Bachelor in Paradise” however stated she thought, “Properly, sufficient time has handed. Possibly he’s modified.” By then, Olympios and Jackson had been publicly pleasant once more, photographed collectively at Disneyland and a Maxim celebration.

Jackson, left, and Olympios attended a Maxim Halloween celebration in October 2017.

(Paul Archuleta / FilmMagic by way of Getty Photographs)

So Doe 2 determined to ship Jackson a direct message on Instagram. They engaged in informal dialog till July 2020, she stated, when Jackson requested her on a date.

“In discussing the place the couple ought to go on a date, [he] introduced that he couldn’t go to any public setting as he claimed that he could be acknowledged from his time on ‘The Bachelorette’ and that his time with Jane Doe 2 would thereby be ‘ruined,’” the grievance reads. “He satisfied Jane Doe 2 that his non-public house was the one viable possibility for his or her date.”

“I used to be pondering, ‘OK, dude, you’re not, like, Obama,’” Doe 2 advised The Occasions. “It was form of bizarre, but it surely didn’t elevate that a lot of a pink flag as a result of I’ve been on dates to guys’ residences the place nothing dangerous has occurred.”

At his house, Doe 2 stated, she and Jackson drank wine and spoke for a few hours. As she went to depart, he kissed her, and the 2 proceeded to his bed room. When Jackson started taking off her garments, she advised him she couldn’t have intercourse as a result of she was menstruating.

However he “was incessant about eager to have intercourse” and requested they’ve anal intercourse as a substitute, the grievance says. She agreed, however after a couple of seconds she begged him to cease as a result of “it actually damage a lot,” echoing the grievance’s allegation that she was “uncomfortable.” She stated he stopped however then grabbed her head and compelled his penis into her mouth, she additionally acknowledged within the lawsuit.

“He was holding me down along with his entire physique weight, and I began to form of choke a little bit bit as a result of I couldn’t breathe,” she stated within the interview. “Someway I ultimately bought my arms free and pushed him off. However then he began to have [vaginal] intercourse with me. I advised him ‘no,’ and he stated, ‘It’s wonderful, it’s wonderful. It’s simply the tip.’”

Lastly, the grievance says, she gathered the power to push him off of her once more. He then begged her to strive anal intercourse once more. After he ejaculated, she stated, she ran to the lavatory and found she was bleeding, per the grievance.

“The tampon was lodged up to now up in me that once I went to the Rape Therapy Middle the subsequent day, they actually needed to get tongs to drag it out of me,” Doe 2 stated within the interview.

In shock, she stated she ran upstairs to seize her garments and go away. Jackson urged her to remain, promising to cuddle her in the course of the evening and cook dinner her breakfast within the morning, she stated.

She bought in her automotive and instantly drove to a good friend’s home. The next morning, she visited the identical UCLA middle the place Jane Doe 1 had reported her alleged assault in 2018. A July 8, 2020, report from the medical facility offered to The Occasions lists Doe 2’s prognosis as “assault by different bodily pressure.”

After her examination, Doe 2 stated, she met with the LAPD. Detectives requested her to “carry out a ruse the place we’d name him, they’d give me particular questions and they might attempt to get him to confess what occurred,” she recalled.

On July 13, with LAPD officers current, Doe 2 FaceTimed Jackson and recorded the dialog on a video digital camera.

“I’m scared s—. I’m over right here pacing, going loopy. I’m going nuts,” Jackson stated within the dialog, which was reviewed by The Occasions. “I’m begging you … I’m not like that. This isn’t who I’m. I’ve been by some loopy s— in my f— life with another stuff, and this isn’t who I’m.”

“So that you’re admitting you made a mistake?” Doe 2 requested.

“A hundred percent,” Jackson replied. “Only for the truth that I see the damage in your eyes.”

“You’re sorry for placing your self in me with out my permission?” she continued.

“A hundred percent,” he stated. “I pleasure myself on studying folks and figuring out the state of affairs and I’m so sorry.”

“Are you able to additionally simply, like, validate me — the truth that I stated ‘no’ and that you simply did it anyway?”

“A hundred percent,” Jackson replied. “That occurred as nicely. I’m sorry for that. I’ve stated that 1,000,000 occasions. I’m respiration all exhausting and heavy. Your arms are clammy? My physique is f— clammy.”

Afterward, Doe 2 stated, detectives had been inspired by how nicely the cellphone name had gone. However the investigation was later dropped. Like Doe 1, Doe 2 started reaching out to attorneys. Three declined to take her case earlier than she reached Davidson, who had just lately heard from Doe 1.

When she discovered there was one other girl who had additionally been allegedly assaulted by Jackson, Doe 2 stated, she burst into tears. Each ladies now attend remedy however say they battle with anxiousness; Doe 1 stated she was pressured to take incapacity go away from work.

“I reduce the wound open once more as a result of I really feel this robust sense of wanting to guard different ladies,” stated Doe 1. “Once you undergo a second the place you’re feeling such as you’re going to die, that second doesn’t ever go away your physique, thoughts or soul. I felt like I used to be going to die, and no person cared. I’m going to make them care. If this second was for nothing else, I simply need it to assist somebody. I couldn’t stay with the concept that I ought to simply be quiet and transfer on.”

Occasions workers author James Queally contributed to this report.