According to LA Weekly, a Facebook post made my Messersmith asserted that “[Forkner] repeatedly beat me senseless”.
Describing one of the alleged assaults, Messersmith wrote, “The attack lasted for 15 minutes; cornering me and smashing my face and body into objects and the floor, running from him from room to room until I was forced into my closet and called the police.”[1] Accompanying her description of the attack, Messersmith posted photos of her black eyes and badly bruised body, injuries she says Forkner inflicted.
[2] While Messersmith attempted to press charges against Forkner, the case was ultimately rejected by L.A. City Attorney's office due to “low likelihood of conviction based on the evidence”.
Management at Dublab confirmed in an email to L.A. Weekly that Forkner had been dropped from the programming schedule; Leaving Records issued a Facebook post publicly announcing that its White Rainbow release had been removed from its catalog, though privately remained friends with Forkner.
“Learning that somebody I've known and called a friend for close to 20 years is abusive to women is shocking, totally sickening (spiritually and physically), and heartbreaking,” the statement read in part.