A lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on September 11 accuses New Jersey rapper Snake IIz, whose legal name is Keyon Hart, of raping former radio host Domonique Hayes in a Coney Island hotel room after a Fourth of July gathering. The claims are allegations in a civil complaint, not court findings. Hart denies them and says Hayes had expressed interest in having sex, according to the New York Post.
What the lawsuit alleges
Hayes alleges that she and Hart celebrated on the Coney Island boardwalk with friends before going to a Best Western hotel. She says she had been drinking and became woozy and intermittently conscious. The complaint alleges Hart ignored her requests to stop and sexually assaulted her. These details are drawn from the complaint as described by the Post.
The suit also seeks unspecified damages and compensation for modeling work Hayes says she did for Hart’s clothing brand without pay. The two had first connected professionally in 2016, the Post reported. Hart has denied Hayes’s account; the lawsuit’s allegations have not been established by a court.
A wider New York filing context
The suit follows a separate period of expanded access to civil claims in New York. As the Adult Survivors Act’s one-year filing window neared its end in November 2023, the Associated Press reported that precise counts of filings under the law were not yet available, while state courts had received at least 2,587 electronic filings; some were brought on behalf of multiple people. That statewide figure is not a count of individual allegations and does not establish which legal provision, if any, applies to Hayes’s lawsuit.
