Bachelor franchise star DeMario Jackson accused of sexual assault by 2 women

DeMario Jackson of the Bachelor franchise is part of a sexual misconduct investigation after two women alleged he raped them. The allegations caused the temporary halt in production of the Bachelor franchise show’s Season 4.

On Tuesday, two women filed a complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court claiming Jackson separately forced them into nonconsensual sex after taking them out on dates, Los Angeles Times reported.

The women, who have named themselves as Jane Does in court documents, said that they had reported their alleged assaults to the Rape Treatment Center at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. 

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Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, both admitted that they were aware of Jackson’s controversial post on The Bachelor franchise before agreeing to go out with him.

In June 2017, a sexual encounter between then-contestants Jackson and Corinne Olympios was caught on camera. The incident had briefly shut down production on the show. 

Warner Bros. subsequently launched an internal investigation into “allegations of misconduct.” The probe later determined that nothing improper had occurred. 

Initially, Olympios released a statement referring to herself as a “victim,” but she later said that there were “no hard feelings between me and DeMario.” Both Jackson and Olympios were heavily drunk when the alleged incident took place.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Jane Doe 1 met Jackson on the popular dating app Bumble just months after the Bachelor in Paradise reunion aired. After their first date, Jackson drove her back to campus, where he kissed her goodnight before he allegedly “exposed his penis.”

“Jane Doe 1 was shocked and felt trapped,” the complaint said. “She was not ready for this meeting to escalate so quickly. In an attempt to set boundaries, Jane Doe 1 told Defendant that his behavior was unacceptable.”

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On the third date, the two had consensual sex on their third date. The two later met again while Jackson was intoxicated. They went to Jane Doe’s apartment in hopes that he would “sleep it off,” but instead, she claims, he raped her.

“I couldn’t move, so all I could think to do was to say, ‘No, no, stop!’ And he just ignored me. It was like he didn’t even hear me,” Jane Doe recalled, according to the Los Angeles Times. “I just kept thinking: ‘Just keep saying no. No one can ever take that away from you. If you’re going to die, you’ll know you fought the only way you could.’”

Meanwhile, Jane Doe 2 says she met Jackson at an Amtrak station in 2019. They went on a date when Jackson allegedly asked Jane Doe to engage in a sexual act. According to the lawsuit, she told him to stop, but he then forced her.

Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 did not know about each other’s cases until they picked the same lawyer.