November 10, 2022
Watch: Trans Beauty Celeb Nikita Dragun Tossed into Florida Men's Prison
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Nikita Dragun, a transgender woman known as a social media influencer and beauty maven, was incarcerated with male inmates in Florida, despite legally being female, NPR reports.
The beauty celeb, who presides over her own line of cosmetics and commands a YouTube viewership numbering in the hundreds millions, as well as an Instagram following of nine million, "found herself in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Monday night [Nov. 7] after being accused of behaving 'extremely disorderly,' walking around naked at a South Beach hotel pool and then assaulting an officer," Florida news station Local 10 detailed.
NBC News relates that, according to an arrest affidavit, "Dragun threw water on a hotel staffer" who approached her about her "walking around the pool area unclothed."
"When police officers went to Dragun's hotel room, they could hear loud music from inside," the NBC article continued. "After knocking and identifying themselves as Miami Beach police, the affidavit said, she opened the door and was told by the hotel security accompanying the officers that she could be escorted from the property.
"Dragun shut the door before reopening it and asking 'Do you want more?' She then swung an open water bottle toward the officers and staff, 'causing the water to hit and spill on' the security guard and one of the officers, the affidavit said."
Dragun's rep protested her incarceration with male inmates, TMZ reports. In comments to the celebrity gossip outlet, Jack Ketsoyan decried the "extremely disturbing and dangerous" decision by law enforcement to place "Nikita, who is legally female... in a men's unit of a Florida jail".
Ketsoyan claimed that "This decision made by the Miami-Dade County Corrections Department directly violates their protocol, which mandates that transgender inmates are classified and housed based on safety needs and gender identity."
"After being jailed for at least a day, she has since been released on her own recognizance," NPR reported.
To watch the Local 10 news clip, follow this link.