Cyndi Lauper’s rapper son files for bankruptcy just days before sex assault lawsuit mediation
Cyndi Lauper’s son’s showed his true colors this week, according to the lawyer representing the woman suing the troubled rapper over an alleged sexual assault.
Lawyers for Declyn “Dex” Lauper Thornton, 27, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on Thursday — filings which were reviewed by The Post.
The move came just days before Monday’s long-scheduled mediation hearing in his ongoing civil case.
In Chapter 7 proceedings, the debtor’s assets are sold off by a court-appointed trustee who then pays back their creditors.
Attorney Mark Shirian, whose client sued Lauper Thornton anonymously back in May, called the timing of the Chapter 7 “convenient,” and said he suspects the filing will only end up delaying his client’s civil case.
“We were supposed to try to get [the civil suit] resolved on Monday at 3 p.m.,” Shirian said, of the planned hearing.
“We were litigating this [case], and all of a sudden, they file for bankruptcy, mere days before we’re supposed to discuss a resolution.”
“I’m sure with this bankruptcy, the case will be stayed,” he added.
“Now, I don’t know if its even going to move forward or not.”
Lauper Thornton is accused of pressuring the unidentified woman to give him oral sex at his SoHo home on Nov. 9, 2020.
He manhandled the woman, holding her down while shoving his penis in her face, the suit alleges.
The victim, 29, said she’d been dating Lauper Thornton, whose father is “Law & Order” TV actor David Thornton, on and off for roughly nine months starting in February 2020, according to filings.
After the two disagreed about a sex act he wanted performed on him, Lauper Thornton allegedly pushed down on the woman’s neck and head with his hands, using all of his body weight — causing “a pop sound from her neck and upper spine,” her suit contends.
The son of the “Time After Time” singer is separately being threatened with eviction from the $7,200-a-month Financial District apartment he moved into in October 2023.
He also has prior arrests for theft and gun possession charges.
He was also arrested in July 2022 after he allegedly double-parked a stolen Mercedes while he was attending the memorial for a 14-year-old aspiring rapper who was fatally stabbed.
He copped a plea deal in that case and avoided jail time.
A working phone number couldn’t be found for Lauper Thornton on Saturday.
