A state trooper was fired for sending fellow officers a sex tape she filmed with another woman.
Former Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper Ivana Williams, 36, was fired in January and is being sued in federal court by the other woman on the tape.
The petition alleges that Williams sexually assaulted the unnamed woman, videotaped her and shared the clip with other police officers.
Williams has since refiled the lawsuit, alleging that the alleged victim damaged her reputation and business relationships by saying she was assaulted.
The other woman also claims she was told the clip would be deleted, while Williams claims her firing was retaliation. She filed an appeal, claiming the decision violates rules designed to protect state employees.
Former Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper Ivana Williams, 36, was fired from her police job in February as another woman is suing her in federal court.
She was fired for sending a sex tape she filmed with another woman to fellow officers and filed an appeal, claiming the decision violates rules designed to protect state employees.
“Much of that night is a blur,” the unidentified victim writes in the lawsuit.
“I became unusually and extremely drunk.”
“The next morning I woke up in bed with no clothes on… I was aware that a sexual encounter had taken place, but I had difficulty remembering what had happened.”
The petition adds that while questioning the police officer about what had happened, “it was revealed to (the petitioner) that (Williams) had recorded the encounter on his phone without (the petitioner’s) knowledge or consent.”
The petitioner then demanded that the police officer delete the video and not share it with anyone, but the police officer had allegedly already shared it with other officers.
She didn’t learn anything more about the video until May of last year, when Williams told the victim that her boyfriend’s wife at the time had discovered the video on her husband’s phone or email.
‘During that conversation,’ the lawsuit states, ‘(Williams) first informed (the petitioner) that she had transmitted the video to her boyfriend.
“During that same conversation,” he adds, “(Williams revealed) that at least one other individual also had possession of the video.”
Over the next few months, the alleged victim learned that the video had been sent several times and that many people had it in their possession.
Others had at least seen it and the police officer was supposedly still sharing the video.
The other woman’s petition alleges that Williams sexually assaulted the unnamed woman, videotaped her and shared the clip with other police officers.
Williams regularly posts photos like these to her more than ten thousand followers on social media. She has maintained her innocence, saying the sex seen on the tape was consensual.
The alleged victim, at the time, said she filed complaints with the Mississippi Attorney General’s office and local authorities, but was unaware of the status of potential investigations.
The former police officer argued that the encounter was consensual and that she only shared it with another person.
Meanwhile, the woman who filed the lawsuit against her is representing herself in the lawsuit, after two of her attorneys withdrew.
Williams, who has more than ten thousand followers on social media, has maintained that he is “innocent,” claiming that his firing for circulating the clip was “retaliation,” in response to him filing a complaint with DPS in January.
She also said it was “discriminatory” because she was a woman, even though two other officers, Julius Hutson and Jeremy Lott, were also fired in connection with the incident.
Police, in turn, also claimed that he visited pornographic websites on his state-issued phone.
After Williams was named in the woman’s lawsuit, she was transferred from Rankin County to Bolivar County, which she said was done without explanation.
The move placed her more than 100 miles from her children, she argued in her January appeal. She was fired six days later.
“The next morning I woke up in bed without clothes… I was aware that a sexual encounter had taken place, but I had difficulty remembering what happened,” he adds about the night in November 2022.
Williams, however, has described the conflict as a “she-said, she-said” situation, and vowed to fight it in court.
According to WBLT, a letter from state officials now considering her appeal in February accused her of unprofessional conduct and misuse of state property.
Williams, however, has described the conflict as a “she-said, she-said” situation, and vowed to fight in court before her followers on Facebook and Instagram.
“I have told everyone that I am innocent and I cannot wait until my day in court so I can prove my innocence,” Williams said.
‘Lately in society, it’s not until your guilt is proven. No, you are guilty until proven innocent.
He also claimed to have met with investigators to give them his personal phone for forensic testing, of which they found “no evidence… to support the plaintiff’s claims.”
Both lawsuits are currently being considered. The other woman sued Williams for $11 million and the former police officer is suing for $20 million.
No hearing dates have been set.