'RuPaul's Drag Race' Alum Shangela Accused Of Sexual Assault

One of the most popular performers on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is now facing multiple accusations of sexual assault.

Darius Jeremy “DJ” Pierce ― who performs in drag under the name “Shangela” ― has been accused by five different people of either sexually assaulting them or trying to have sex with them when they were too intoxicated to consent, according to Rolling Stone.

Neither RuPaul nor the show are implicated in Rolling Stone’s report.

One of the victims, a 27-year-old man named Helmer, said he met Pierce, 42, seven years ago when he was working at a Los Angeles bar and later hooked up on social media.

But Helmer said things took a turn for the worse during a “late dinner” in 2017 where Pierce ordered a mojito for him. Helmer told the Los Angeles Police that he woke up “completely naked on a bed” and had “no recollection of the events that occurred after he drank” that cocktail.

According to the complaint Helmer filed with the LAPD, Pierce told him that they had sex together, and added, “There was another guy involved that you brought in.”

When Helmer asked the other man’s identity, Pierce said he didn’t know. “But you were really into it,” Pierce told Helmer.

Pierce’s attorney, Andrew Brettler, told Rolling Stone that Helmer’s allegations were “absurd” and claimed any sex between all three men was “consensual.”

Another victim, Edward Ramirez said Pierce allegedly “shoved me on the floor in a closet and tried to penetrate me” in 2018. He was 21 years old.

“I’m very confident I was clear with my ‘no’s.’ I was declining advances,” Ramirez told Rolling Stone. “He still kept trying anyway.”

Brettler also denied the allegation, saying there were three people who could “attest that Mr. Pierce and Mr. Ramirez were never