Nguyen said she met Seagal through an ad on Craigslist seeking an "executive assistant," and after three interviews, was told to pack for a trip to New Orleans, where the A&E show Steven Seagal Lawman (wtf?) was taping:
When she arrived, the lawsuit says, she discovered that Seagal had been keeping two young female Russian "attendants" who were essentially on-call for sex -- 24-seven.It's not clear why Nguyen chose to file a civil lawsuit instead of a criminal complaint... but the lawsuit apparently gets very specific about a "unique physiological reaction" that Seagal has to sexual arousal. Ew. Ew. Gross. I don't even want to know. More here: Kayden Nguyen "Sex Toy" Lawsuit: Steven Seagal Attacked Me.
On that first night, Nguyen was ushered to a secluded house where Seagal was staying with his wife and the two young women. He then proceeded to treat Nguyen as his "sex toy" despite her complaints, the lawsuit says, responding to her terror as he fondled and manhandled her by saying, "Relax, we won't do anything special tonight ... I'll save that for another night.'"
She complained the following morning to some of the other employees, assuming that they would deliver the message to Seagal. Hours later, the lawsuit says he assaulted her again, this time forcing her to consume "illegal pills" and inflicting sexual acts on her until she sobbed.
The following morning, when she confronted Seagal herself, he told her there had been a "misunderstanding"; but hours later, he assaulted her a third time, an attack that stopped only when she ran away.
The ordeal carried on for several days, and it wasn't until Feb. 28 -- the following Sunday -- that she was able to escape the situation.