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Whoa…
As we beforehand reported, the ballet world was rocked final 12 months when former Boston Ballet principal dancer Dusty Button (pictured above, proper inset) and her husband Mitchell Taylor Button had been sued for allegedly sexually assaulting seven dancers. 5 of them had been minors on the time of the alleged abuse, the youngest being 13 years previous. Sage Humphries (pictured above, left) particularly claimed that the couple raped her on quite a few events, even accusing Dusty of holding her down whereas Mitchell allegedly sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. The ballerina was solely 17. She additional accused them of intercourse trafficking within the lawsuit, stating:
“[The Buttons enticed Humphries] to cross state strains with [them] by utilizing threats, intimidation, and the pretense that they might assist additional her profession {and professional} improvement, in change for partaking in intercourse acts.”
It’s been a surprising authorized case to say the least. However now, it appears like Dusty and Mitchell are sharing their aspect of the story — and it’s completely wild, y’all!
Talking with Boston Journal, Sage shared extra particulars concerning the horrors she allegedly confronted by the hands of Dusty and Mitchell. She began by saying that Dusty had first invited her over to have dinner together with her and Mitchell at their dwelling someday. She claims after they supplied to permit her to sleep over at their residence that evening, she agreed – recalling seeing their assortment of weapons, knives, and grenades displayed on the partitions of the visitor room. She then slept in the identical room the next week, and shortly it turned a nightly factor. The trio shortly fashioned a friendship, with Dusty mentoring Sage one-on-one throughout rehearsal breaks and choreographing a dance routine for her to submit for an award.
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In the meantime, Mitchell supplied to assist Sage on the social media aspect of issues similar to he’d been doing for his spouse. Whereas this initially began out to be a dream come true for Sage since she was residing alone, she says it quickly changed into a nightmare. In her claims to the outlet, in the course of the third week of their hangouts, Taylor put a mattress into the lounge, instructed they watch a film, and have a sleepover. When the movie got here to an finish, Dusty had been asleep, and Sage was drifting off to sleep. That’s when she alleges she felt Michell’s hand slip down the entrance of her pants and within her. She says she continued to return to the Buttons’ dwelling the place she was allegedly abused every time. When requested why she returned, the journal famous that Sage mentioned she “was terrified that if she’d spoken up, she would have misplaced her solely buddy in addition to all the assistance they had been giving her,” and in flip, they might smash her profession.
Per her account, issues continued to escalate – forcing her to decorate and elegance herself like Dusty, telling her what to eat or who to speak to, and never even permitting her to go anyplace with out them. If Sage didn’t hearken to them, she claimed to Boston Journal that she typically confronted criticism from them. Nonetheless, if she adopted their order, she was met with reward. And after Sage claimed they walked in on her within the bathe to inform her she was their girlfriend, they allegedly pressured her to placed on a head-to-toe spandex go well with and made her go into the room with their weapons, positioned her on a desk, and strapped down her legs and arms. She claims they then proceeded to sexually assault her. Following that evening, she says the duo went on to have intercourse together with her with out her consent – and have become bodily violent in the course of the acts. Finally, Sage says she managed to flee Dusty and Mitchell with the assistance of her mother and father, who beforehand witnessed a number of the alleged abuse throughout a household trip, in addition to different Boston Ballet members. This occurred after the principal dancer was fired from the corporate for unknown causes and instantly banned from the premises.
Based on The Buttons, although, none of that is true. Actually, they claimed what occurred was fairly the alternative than what Sage detailed in her lawsuit and to the outlet. They lately filed a counterclaim in opposition to Sage and the opposite dancers, plus 5 different defendants, which incorporates Sage’s mother and father. Based on court docs obtained by Boston Journal, Mitchell and Dusty claimed within the new submitting that Sage was not sexually abused by them, however was truly abused by a number of older males. Earlier than she moved to Boston, the submitting acknowledged that she allegedly was in a relationship with former New York Metropolis Ballet principal dancer Chase Finlay whereas he was engaged to a different dancer. She was underage on the time. In addition they say Sage had one other boyfriend, Anthony Giovanni Deane, who was in his 40s when he dated her when she was solely 17. They declare she deliberate to elope with him.
As we beforehand reported, Dusty and Mitchell additionally allege within the docs that Daryl Katz, the billionaire proprietor of the Edmonton Oilers hockey group, paid Sage $75,000 for sexual favors. Accusing her of being a “baby prostitute,” they are saying Sage’s mother Micah knew concerning the association and inspired it. Because the doc states, the mom allegedly “assisted her in laundering the cash she was paid and in trafficking her to Katz…a grifting sample that included trafficking her personal daughter to a billionaire for monetary achieve.” Moreover, the twosome claimed that her mother and father manipulated and mistreated the dancer for years:
“Sage grew up with hyper-controlling conservative mother and father. [and] subsequently sought pleasure in drug use and sexual promiscuity—one thing that left her controlling mother and father perplexed and horrified.”
Earlier than she relocated to Boston, the Buttons additionally say that her mother and pa despatched her to Florida for a complete 12 months to “dry out from her drug use.”
As for the way they met Sage? Dusty and Mitchell claimed Sage was the one who approached them after her mom ordered her to take action. They acknowledged that the mother “was ‘casing’ the Buttons as a mark for her subsequent grift” and on the lookout for recommendation on rising her social media presence. The Buttons admitted to having a sexual relationship with Sage however insisted it was a consensual one which the dancer first initiated:
“The Buttons ultimately acquiesced to Sage’s advances and started a consensual ‘throuple’ sexual relationship with Sage Humphries after Sage moved in with them.”
Their relationship “appeared, on the time, to be one in all mutual love, affection, and respect.” Notes and photos had been included within the submitting as proof, together with one the place Sage might be seen embracing Dusty. A card from Sage to Dusty allegedly learn:
“I hope you know the way deep my love for you is. I really like you Dusty. Ceaselessly.”
A Snapchat from Sage to Mitchell additionally mentioned:
“There’s nothing on this world I would like greater than to get up in your arms…you might be such an trustworthy love and have such a phenomenal coronary heart.”
When it got here to Sage’s declare that Mitchell first sexually assaulted her on the mattress in his and Dusty’s residence, the couple mentioned within the declarations with the submitting “none of [it] ever occurred”. Much more so, the Buttons say Sage “begged to have intercourse” with Mitchell, throughout which Dusty cried. In addition they declare Sage stepped into the bathe with Dusty and Taylor, asking to be their girlfriend. Sage’s allegations that there have been a ton of weapons within the Buttons’ visitor room? The counterclaim mentioned the residence “didn’t include weapons or firearms of any type.” As an alternative, Sage’s mother pretended to be a neighbor and referred to as a pretend report back to the police concerning the firearms whereas the duo had been gone.
Whereas it had apparently been alleged that Mitchell one mentioned he’d “throw Sage in his van, tie her arms and toes, blindfold her, hire a warehouse, grasp her from the ceiling, rape her, and go away her to die, “not solely do they strongly refute it, they are saying it was an episode from VICE Information:
“The scene she is describing was taken from a VICE Information episode that Sage appreciated about individuals paying and organising pretend kidnappings of themselves for pleasure.”
So on and so forth. They denied a lot of her accusations, portray a very totally different model of occasions about what occurred.
However what concerning the six different dancers who shared eerily related tales of alleged sexual abuse? Nicely, the authorized docs claimed both they really abused Dusty or had been simply jealous ex-girlfriends of Mitchell who joined the lawsuit “to extort cash from the Buttons and advance their careers.” They denied ever assembly or figuring out “Jane Doe 100” who claimed that, when she was a minor, Dusty held her down whereas Mitchell raped her of their residence.
In response to the submitting, Sage’s lawyer instructed Boston Journal:
“As is typical of abusers, the Buttons’ counter-claims are an effort to weaponize the allegations of abuse introduced in opposition to them in a wicked effort to forged the…courageous girls named within the criticism as liars. Their hoax doesn’t change the info on this case. The ladies are truth-tellers, and we’re assured the Buttons shall be delivered to justice.”
Heavy, heavy stuff.
You possibly can learn the complete Boston Magazine article HERE.
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