Former America’s Next Top Model contestant Jenn An is suing Kanye West for allegedly assaulting her by choking her and shoving his fingers down her throat during the filming of a music video in 2010.

In a lawsuit filed in New York federal court on Friday, November 22, the model accuses the 47-year-old rapper of staging his “own drama” by asking a camera crew to film him choking her during the filming of the music video for La Roux’s song “In for the Kill,” which features West on a remix.

The lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone , Page Six and TheWrap , states that An worked as an extra for the video at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City in September 2010 and was wearing only “revealing underwear: when West pointed her out to the crew and said, ‘Give me the Asian girl.’”

An claims that she told West, “I’m not wearing much,” to which he allegedly replied, “That’s why I picked you,” and she recalls him ordering the other extras to leave the room.

The model and actress alleges that West (who has legally changed his name to Ye ) “towered over” her and “gasped” when he suddenly asked the camera crew to get a close-up of her face and used “circling hands” to “mimic oral sex” on her.

“On camera, Defendant West began strangling Plaintiff with one hand. He then wrapped his other hand around Plaintiff’s neck and continued to strangle her with both hands,” the lawsuit alleges, according to Rolling Stone . “He then inserted multiple fingers into her throat, repeatedly moving them in and out and gagging her” for over a minute.

An also claimed that the rapper yelled, “This is art. This is fucking art. I’m like Picasso,” while he choked her, “in a manner similar to a gag/deepthroat/BDSM porn.”

“Plaintiff struggled to breathe and felt as if she had temporarily blacked out. When Defendant West decided he was done with Plaintiff, her face was covered in saliva and her makeup was smeared,” the lawsuit says.

Universal Music Group (UMG) is also named as a co-defendant in the case, as An alleges that the company “failed to investigate” the incident. The lawsuit states that “West’s sexist, hateful, and abusive controversies are a trademark, too profitable for Defendant Universal Music to intervene, despite his illegal conduct.”

An argues that West violated New York’s Gender-Based Violence Act, and she is asking the judge to award her punitive damages, legal fees, and “damages for mental, emotional and physical injuries, suffering, pain and suffering, and harm to her reputation.”

Her lawyers also argue that UMG “systematically discriminates against women, by continuing to work with artists who have a well-documented history of sexual harassment and discrimination.” The lawsuit also claims that UMG and its affiliated record labels including Interscope Records and “other prominent industry figures [attempted] to ‘bury’ the case.”

Representatives for West and UMG did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

An appeared on season 13 of ANTM in 2009, finishing third. She has become an actress in recent years, appearing in Criminal Minds and The Mindy Project.

This is one of several lawsuits filed against Ye in recent months. Last week, his former Yeezy employee Murphy Aficionado filed 12 complaints against him and his companies, Yeezy LLC and Donda Academy, for discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and other conduct.

Aficionado accused the rapper of making anti-Semitic comments, including “Jews took [ex-wife] Kim [Kardashian] and my kids.'” West allegedly made discriminatory comments about Aficionado’s Filipino ancestry and allegedly asked him to remove his “ugly” traditional Filipino tattoos, known as “Batok.”

In the complaint, obtained by PEOPLE, Aficionado—who worked as a project manager for Yeezy for nine months—claims that he was “wrongfully terminated” and that he was not paid for his work. He also alleges that West told him to go to a hotel room where he and his then-girlfriend, Bianca Censori , were having sex and then put on a T-shirt with a swastika design on it .

West’s former assistant also sued him in October, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting her at a recording session co-hosted by the rapper and Sean “Diddy” Combs .

Lauren Pisciotta, who worked for West from 2021 to 2022, alleges in an amended complaint obtained by PEOPLE that West sexually assaulted her after serving her a drugged drink.