A.M Lukas sues Nuno Lopes for ‘drugging and raping her at the Tribeca Film Festival which forced her to take anti-HIV medicine and gave her PTSD’
- AM Lukas had just left film school when she said she had been raped by Nuno Lopes
- She is suing him in New York and filed the suit on Monday, just three days before the deadline
New York filmmaker AM Lukas has accused Nuno Lopes, the Portuguese star of the Netflix drama series White Lines, of drugging and raping her after an event at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
Lukas, real name Anna Martemucci, was fresh out of film school and attending a friend’s main party when she claimed the acclaimed actor and DJ spiked her drink and took her to his apartment.
Her lawsuit was filed in New York on Monday, just three days before the deadline for claims under the state’s Adult Survivors Act, which temporarily waives the statute of limitations for action against historical sex crimes.
The filmmaker, whose 2018 short film One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure screened at the Sundance Festival, says she had to take anti-HIV medication after the attack, which left her with PTSD when her memories of it began to return.
Lukas says she was forced to take anti-HIV medication and suffered PTSD after the attack
Nuno Lopes as Duarte ‘Boxer’ Silva, pictured alongside Spanish actress Marta Milans, who plays Kika in White Lines
Lopes has a string of theater and TV credits to his name, having worked in Portugal and Brazil. Pictured on the left with the Orizzonti Award for Best Actor for ‘Saint George’ at the closing ceremony of the 73rd Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande in September 2016 and on the right beard-free at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival in May 2012
βWe cannot accept a world where perpetrators of heinous and inhumane behavior can live their lives in the open, with impunity and without social consequences, while their victims suffer in silence,β she said as she filed her case with the Eastern Council. Neighborhood New York.
βMr. Lopes was given the opportunity to take responsibility for his actions: to acknowledge what he did; to take it into account and to apologize.
βHe immediately refused and communicated in no uncertain terms that he would never admit to any wrongdoing.β
In her lawsuit, she recalls that shortly after she was introduced to Lopes, her body began to feel “unusually heavy.”
She had little immediate memory of the night, other than Lopes holding her limp legs up and “raping her from the front as she drifted in and out of consciousness,” the paper claims.
Her other memories included “Mr. Lopes raping Lukas from behind while Lukas wondered where she was and who she was with, and Mr. Lopes masturbating over Lukas’ naked, motionless body.”
It is alleged that Lopes called her a taxi around 7:30 the next morning and gave her $30 to pay for it, along with his phone number.
Shortly afterwards, she received a message from an unknown number that sounded like a man was masturbating and moaning while calling Lukas’ name into the phone.
Lukas’ attorney Michael Willemin said he was “inspired by our client’s courage to come forward.”
Lukas she ‘cannot accept a world in which perpetrators of heinous, inhumane behavior can live their lives in the open, with impunity and without social consequences, while their victims suffer in silence’
Lukas has 430,000 followers on Instagram, has become a DJ and is one of the biggest stars of the Portuguese-speaking world
βAs we have seen time and time again, the film industry has repeatedly given permission for men like Mr. Lopes to engage in sexual assault without consequences.β
Lopes, who has 430,000 followers on Instagram, has received acting credits in 52 productions and has won five Golden Globes in his native Portugal.
βI am not looking forward to the ways in which I am sure Mr. Lopes’ lawyers will attempt to humiliate and invalidate me,β Lukas said.
“But I won’t let that stop me from achieving justice.” DailyMail.com has reached out to Lopes for comment.