Here are some key points from the lawsuit, which Business Insider has seen.
- Richard Liu pressured Liu Jingyao to drink excessive amounts of alcohol at a networking dinner, which was attended by more than a dozen Chinese executives, the document alleged.
- Liu Jingyao, "as was intended by Defendant Liu, became impaired as a result of coercive actions of Defendant [Richard] Liu and his business friends and colleagues," the suit claimed.
- After the dinner, Richard Liu took the student into a limousine, "began to grope and physically force himself upon the plaintiff," and ignored her pleas to stop, according to the suit.
- The car eventually took Richard Liu and Liu Jingyao to the student's apartment complex, and when they got to their apartment, he took off his clothes, lay on her bed naked, and raped her, the lawsuit claimed.
Richard Liu was arrested on the same night. According to the lawsuit, he angrily said "What the hell?" in Mandarin to the student as he was arrested and detained.
Liu Jingyao accused Richard Liu and JD.com of a combined six counts of false imprisonment, civil assault and battery, and sexual assault or battery. She seeks at least $50,000 in damages.
Richard Liu's lawyers called the lawsuit "meritless" and said they would contest it vigorously.
Florin Roebig, one of the law firms representing Liu Jingyao, said in a statement cited by Reuters: "We are proud of the incredible courage our client has shown revealing her name for all the world to see, so that justice may be done."
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