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Weeks after Snoop Dogg filed a pre-emptive lawsuit claiming he was the target of an extortion scheme hatched by a woman claiming to have been sexually assaulted by the rapper and his posse, the alleged victim, an Emmy Award-winning makeup artist, has responded with her own blistering legal complaint, reports TheSmokingGun.com.

In the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, Kylie Bell charges that Snoop (real name Calvin Broadus) and several associates raped her in the entertainer's dressing room following a January 2003 taping of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

Bell, who won a 2002 Emmy for her work on HBO's "Six Feet Under," claims she was left incapacitated after drinking what a Snoop associate told her was champagne. According to the complaint, after Bell, 36, was drugged, she was sexually assaulted by Broadus and four cronies.

In addition to the rapper, Bell, who is seeking $25 million in combined

damages, has named ABC, Kimmel's show, and the Walt Disney Company as defendants. She alleges that the network is partly liable for the attacks because, during the week Broadus co-hosted the Kimmel program, his dressing room was stocked with "large quantities" of champagne and marijuana (Bell also claims to have seen Broadus "snorting cocaine powder" on the final night of his Kimmel gig, which came during the show's first week on ABC).

The morning after the incident, Bell claims she told family members about the sexual assault, but was advised not to make a police report due to Broadus' supposed street gang affiliation. Four months later, according to the complaint, Bell contacted the Kimmel program and told them that she had been sexually assaulted at the show and was contacting the police.

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