Gloria Velez alleges that 2 Live Crew member Uncle Luke once attempted to pay for her silence to protect an NFL player from a sexual assault allegation.
During a recent appearance on VladTV, the iconic video vixen opened up about her experience touring the country at 14 years old and how the period exposed her to predatory behavior from associates of 2 Live Crew and other celebrities.
“At that time, I almost got raped a few times,” Velez recalled.
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“But the reason I didn’t tell a lot of people or tell anybody was because I didn’t want to hurt the people that tried to rape me and the ones that did rape me. I thought about their family, I didn’t want to ruin their career, even though they weren’t thinking about what they did to me and how they made me feel.”
Velez remembers that she was on tour with DJ Jealous Jay at the time and traveled to do a show in the Florida Keys where Luke and 2 Live Crew performing.
Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell attends Hulu’s “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told” Atlanta Screening at The Bank Event Center on March 20, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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“Luke had an after party and we all went. There was a new athlete that just got a major deal, a football player and he kept flirting and they kept saying, ‘She’s 14, she’s 14,’ like, chill. They kept telling him that,” Velez said of her friends’ warnings to the unidentified player, who has since retired, according to Velez.
“He’s like, ‘Let’s talk upstairs.’ He was very persistent and I went, ignorantly, and we were upstairs and he tried to rape me. I told him, ‘No, I want to leave,’ and he threw money at me, ‘[saying] how much, how much,’ and kept throwing money.
“I said no, and we went back and forth and he just jumped on me and I just started screaming, even though there was so much noise, so much music. But thank God, my people heard me busted in and he acted like he didn’t care. Like he was above the law, that he was famous and rich.”
“They called me many of times when I got home like, ‘how much money do you need to be quiet?’ I said, but nothing happened.’ He goes, ‘Yeah, but something did happen, even though it didn’t go all the way.’ But I didn’t take any money, and I just said, ‘I’ll be silent, I won’t say anything.’”
Uncle Luke speaks during ‘Salute The Sample’ on SiriusXM’s Rock The Bells Radio at SiriusXM Studios on May 05, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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When asked, Velez confirms that Luke was one of the ppl who called [to offer money]. “[They offered] a lot of money ’cause he just made a major deal,” Velez said of the unnamed player.
“Later on, I saw him a few times, I never said anything, he never said nothing. As I got older, in my late ’20s, he apologized. He tried to even flirt, I said, ‘That’s not gonna happen.’ I thought that was weird. But I forgave him. I told him I forgive him.”
In a previous interview, 2 Live Crew member Brother Marquise admitted that some men expressed the belief that they had a “pass” to rape women, a mind-state he said was uncommon in Miami at that time. “Some of that sh*t was going on,” Marquis, who passed away in 2024, said of the sexual violence against women.
“We got to Miami, it was sort of a lawless place where anything goes. Girls were there and there were guys that were really extra on some thug, some goon sh*t. In Miami, it was nothing, you’d hear guys [say] all the time, ‘I got a rape license.’ I used to see girls get abused and slapped for not participating.”
VIBE has reached out to Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell and his representatives for comment.
Watch Gloria Velez’s VladTV interview below.
