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Will Smith Accuser Brian King Joseph Shared Cryptic Video Before Lawsuit

Brian King Joseph alleges forced entry, grooming, and retaliation after reporting sexual harassment during Will Smith’s 2024-2025 global tour, leading to emotional and economic damages.

  • Last Tuesday, Brian King Joseph, violinist and former America’s Got Talent finalist, filed a lawsuit alleging a `traumatic series of events` on Will Smith, actor, 57, during his global tour last year.
  • Joseph says Smith `deliberately grooming and priming` him when invited, and he was hired earlier this year, first working with Smith in December 2024.
  • During the tour Joseph alleges forced entry to his Las Vegas hotel room and finding a note signed `Stone F` and wipes, beer bottle, red backpack, HIV medication, earring, and hospital paperwork.
  • Following his report, Joseph alleges a tour management team member shamed and fired him, causing severe emotional distress, economic loss, reputational harm, and PTSD and other mental illness.
  • Smith's attorney Allen B. Grodsky said on Friday the complaint was `false, baseless and reckless`, while Joseph posted on Instagram/@briankingjoseph in December 2025 urging people to `stand up`.
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The plaintiff reports of sexual advances, retaliation and unjustified dismissal.Judge problems for Will Smith. The actor, film producer and winner in 2022 of the Oscar award as best actor, 57 years old, according to the American magazine People was sued last Tuesday for sexual harassment and unlawful dismissal by a star of Americas Got Talent, Brian King Joseph. The man, 32 years old, professional violinist of the tour of Smith Based on a True S…

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Violinist Brian King Joseph posted a video on Instagram on Christmas Day, hinting at legal action, days before suing Will Smith for sexual harassment and wrongful termination. Smith has denied all charges. Joseph, 32, a finalist on “America’s Got Talent” in 2018, claims that during a tour stop in Las Vegas in March, he found his hotel room unlocked by an unknown person who left a seductive note. He reported the incident to Smith’s team, but clai…

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