In a 2016 story, Vanity Fair called it “the $40 million sexual assault case rocking Silicon Valley.”

Michael Goguen, then a partner at storied venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, was sued by Amber Laurel Baptiste, who alleged that he abused her “sexually, physically, and emotionally for 13 years,” raped her repeatedly, infected her with HPV, or human papillomavirus, and allegedly sodomized her and left her bleeding and nearly hemorrhaging to death on the floor of a hotel room.