According to TMZ, Seal is under criminal investigation for sexual battery, just one week after he publicly encouraged sexual abuse victims to come forward … but the singer denies any wrongdoing.
Actress Tracey Birdsall tells us she and Seal were neighbors in Los Angeles in the fall of 2016. She says the two developed a close friendship — and only that — until an incident at Seal’s home. Tracey says she was in Seal’s kitchen to retrieve a salad spinner she’d lent him when all of a sudden, he lunged at her.
She then claimed he began groping her breasts until she demanded he stop. Birdsall told the gossip site she agreed to sit on the couch with Seal after that because she was in shock, but then he continued to grope her breasts and poke fun at her outfit
A source with the L.A. County Sheriffs’ Department told TMZ that a report was taken on Saturday concerning Seal for sexual battery. The incident is under investigation.
A rep for the singer said in a statement to TMZ that he “vehemently denies the recent allegations made against him by a former neighbor for alleged misconduct more than a year ago.”
“He intends to vigorously defend himself against these false allegations,” the statement read.
On Wednesday, the “Crazy” artist took to Instagram to call out Oprah for being a hypocrite because of her friendship with the disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused by dozens of women of sexual assault, and even rape.
After the talk show host’s fiery Golden Globes speech that built up speculation she might run for president, Seal posted a meme to his page showing Oprah in a photo with Weinstein.
The caption read, “When you have been part of the problem for decades, but suddenly they all think you are the solution.”
He later said it was “not an attack on Oprah at all.”
“Let me start by saying that I have an enormous amount of respect for everything that Oprah has achieved and contributed in her life,” he wrote on Facebook. “What I reposted was not an attack on Oprah at all. She just happened to be the person photographed with the pig (Weinstein) in the picture. No, what I reposted was commentary on the hypocritical and double-standard nature and behavior of Hollywood.”
Seal was married to model Heidi Klum from 2005 and 2014. They have three children together, Henry, 12, Johan, 11 and Lou, 8.
