Obama Portrait Artist Accused of Sexual Assault By Numerous Men
Kehinde Wiley, the artist who painted Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait, has responded to several men who have accused him of sexual assault.
In 2021, Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko claimed Wiley sexually assaulted him twice.
On his Instagram, Awuah-Darko wrote, “On 9th June 2021 – I was sexually assaulted by @kehindewiley. It almost destroyed me.”
Activist Derrick Ingram has also come out and accused Wiley of rape.
Ingram wrote on Instagram, “On September 10, 2021, I was raped and sexually assaulted by Kehinde Wiley at his apartment in New York.”
The accusations don’t end there.
Author Nathaniel Lloyd Richards has come out recently and told Hyperallergic magazine that Willey inappropriately touched and groped him during a date in 2019.
