Brian King Joseph claims the rapper and actor was ‘priming’ him for ‘sexual exploitation’. Smith’s lawyer has called the allegations ‘false, baseless and reckless’
Will Smith is being sued by a violinist from his 2025 tour, who claims the rapper and actor exhibited “predatory behaviour” and was “deliberately grooming and priming” him for “further sexual exploitation”. Brian King Joseph is also pursuing the performer and his company Treyball Studios Management for wrongful termination and retaliation in a suit filed in the superior court of California.
Joseph alleges that he was hired for the tour in support of Smith’s new album, Based on a True Story, after first appearing on stage with Smith in December 2024. The suit claims that Smith once told Joseph, “You and I have such a special connection that I don’t have with anyone else.”
In March 2025, Joseph alleges that his bag and hotel room key went missing at a Las Vegas tour date, and was returned several hours later. That night, Joseph claims he went to his hotel room to find it had been “unlawfully” accessed, with wipes and HIV medication bearing another person’s name left behind, in addition to a note that read: “Brian, I’ll be back no later 5.30, just us <3, Stone F.” Joseph said he concluded that “an unknown individual would soon return to his room to engage in sexual acts” with him.
