BuzzFeed news exclusive: A 20-year-old woman says Pepper forced himself on her in April 2013, while he was performing in Toronto. The woman never filed formal charges because “I thought it was my fault,” she said. Pepper did not respond to requests for comment.
Another woman has told BuzzFeed News that YouTube celebrity Sam Pepper sexually assaulted her.
The new allegation comes a week after the former U.K. Big Brother contestant sparked outrage with a prank video that features him groping and pinching women on the street. In the video, Pepper approaches women on the street and asks for directions. As the women answer him, Pepper groped them with his hand hidden beneath a large sweatshirt. Pepper said the video was a "social experiment" and the women were in on the stunt.
But soon after the video was published, three women came forward with stories of being inappropriately touched or harassed by Pepper. A fourth woman told BuzzFeed news on Wednesday that Pepper solicited nude photographs of her in 2011 when he was 22 and she was 15.
Pepper took a photo of himself in Toronto on the day of the alleged rape, which he uploaded to his Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter pages. After BuzzFeed News sent Pepper a request for comment on this story Friday afternoon, the original posts were deleted from Tumblr and Instagram. These accounts have now been deleted entirely.
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In an interview this week with BuzzFeed News, a 20-year-old from Toronto who asked her name be withheld, alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Sam Pepper in 2013 while he was on tour with the rapper Sammy Adams and singer T. Mills. She said that she met Pepper on April 26, when the tour stopped in Toronto.
"I didn't even know who Sammy Adams was," she said. "I just went because my friends, we all really liked that whole YouTube thing at that time and my friends told me about [the concert] and said that [Sam Pepper] would be there."
The woman, who was 18 at the time, said she, her older sister, who was 21 at the time, and a family friend, all responded to Pepper on Twitter after he posted that he was in Toronto. The three women exchanged Facebook information with Pepper.
The woman now accusing Pepper said that he messaged her on Facebook and asked for her to come to his room at the Westin Hotel. Westin Hotel staff would not confirm to BuzzFeed News that Pepper was a guest of the hotel on April 26, 2013, citing privacy laws.
The woman gave BuzzFeed News screenshots of what she said are Facebook messages between her and Pepper.
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