Los Angeles woman meets bar owner while she’s out. Then she says he grabbed her wrist and didn’t let go: ‘You did the right thing’
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Nightlife is somewhat synonymous with dangerous or unsavory situations. It's dark out, bars and clubs tend to be crowded, and many of the people in said bars or clubs are under the influence of alcohol or drugs. That's one reason why things can easily unravel into chaos.
For women, the danger of one bad night out is even more pressing. A 2024 study showed that “nightlife environments are high risk settings for sexual violence,” with “women and girls at greatest risk.” For this reason, it's not uncommon for women to be on guard, even during relaxed occasions.
Enter one woman, Sami Sheen, who is going viral on TikTok for sharing her testimony about being put on edge while at a bar.
‘His grip is so hard … he's hurting me'
On March 18, Sheen (@samisheen on TikTok) posted a video that received more than 218,000 views, which detailed an unpleasant experience she had at Good Times at Davey Wayne's,a well-known, '70s-themed cocktail bar in Hollywood, California.
Davey Wayne's is one of many popular Los Angeles nightspots owned by twin brothers Mark and Johnnie Houston, who are often referred to as “the Houston brothers.” The Los Angeles Times dubbed the twins “the Winklevosses of LA nightlife.”
“So I was at a bar last night with some friends, and coincidentally, we met the owners of the bar. It was these two guys, they're twin brothers,” Sheen said in her video. “One of them was behind the bar, and the other was in front of the bar getting my friends drinks. And he was trying to get me to come over to say hi to him.”
Sheen said that as one of the owners—she did not specify which—attempted to summon her over to him. She was “being nice.” That's when things got a little weird, she said, but not aggressively so.
“He was being really touchy,” Sheen said. “Like grabbing my arm and pulling it towards him, but not in, like, an aggressive way.”
Sheen claims she had to ‘pry his fingers off'
Sheen said his efforts escalated physically, which is when he allegedly crossed a real boundary.
“Finally, this [expletive] guy grabs my wrist so hard and yanks it towards him, and I'm going like this,” Sheen said as she mimicked the action. “And he's not letting go. His grip is so hard on me to the point where it's causing me [expletive] pain. Like, he's hurting me.”
Unnerved and mercifully sober (“I have all my strength”), Sheen said she had to “pry his fingers off” her with her other hand before addressing him.
“I look him dead in the eye,” Sheen said. “I go, ‘Don't ever [expletive] grab my hand like that again.' And he goes, ‘I'm just trying to get you to come over here so you can hear me.' I go, ‘I can hear you just fine two feet away from you. That's crazy. You just [expletive] did that?'”
Sheen said she observed the owner being “touchy” with her friends for the rest of the evening. She called the whole experience “terrifying.” She also alleged that he followed her on Instagram and liked three of her posts the following morning.
‘How do you grab a woman like that?'
Sheen seemed flabbergasted that a grown man could have conducted himself that way in a public space. She mentioned that she's “never been grabbed like that at a bar before” and that “this has to be assault.”
“Is that not assault?” Sheen asked her audience. “Am I crazy? Like, how do you grab a woman like that? And his grip is so tight, and I can't get it away from him.”
In California, there is no such thing as “attempted assault,” only the crime of assault itself. In order to be considered an assault, the act must be done with intention (not accidentally); and the offender must commit the act when able to “use force” and do something that would “directly and most likely result in the application of force on another person.” The Los Angeles-based law firm Kraut Law Group states that “the term ‘application of force' is a touch that is harmful or offensive in nature.”
“The slightest touching can be enough to violate the statute if it is done in a rude or angry way,” Kraut Law Group wrote. “Making contact with another person, even through clothing, is enough. The touching does not have to cause pain or injury.”
Commenters assured Sheen she handled the situation correctly. Some viewers even encouraged her to go to the police. More than a few of her audience members applauded her for asserting her boundaries and “saying no very early.”
“You did the right thing,” one viewer wrote.
‘Noooooo not the Houston brothers'
While Sheen doesn't mention Davey Wayne's or the Houston brothers directly in her video, she confirmed they were who she met in her comment section. She responded “yes” to one viewer asking, “Wait the Houston Brothers?” in a comment. Another viewer responded, “I already knew he was talking about….”
Another viewer asked, “Was this in the 818?” Sheen responded, “davey wayne's.” One commenter mourned, “Noooooo not the Houston brothers.”
In 2017, Mark Houston's then-girlfriend Lucy McIntosh accused him “of alleged domestic violence and emotional abuse” on Instagram. Eater reported McIntosh made a police report with the LAPD and claimed “Mark Houston broke her nose and caused ‘physical and emotional' damage.” Eater reports Houston countersued McIntosh for “defamation and extortion.” McIntosh dropped the suit in 2018.
McIntosh later stated under oath that “Mark Houston was never an abusive boyfriend.” According to Eater, legal documents “show that Houston and McIntosh have ‘dismissed all litigation pursuits against each other, and neither party has paid the other party anything to resolve the litigation.'”
Buzz News has reached out to McIntosh via email for comment.
Other Houston brothers concerns
In April, an anonymized John Doe (whoprotected his identity in the case), sued Ye (formerly Kanye West) after the rapper allegedly sucker-punched him in one of his L.A. restaurants in 2024. The incident allegedly occurred because Ye mistook him for his twin brother—whom Kanye accused of sexually assaulting his wife, Bianca Censori.
This followed previous reports of Ye punching a Houston brother that same year. TMZ reports Ye had alleged one of the Houston brothers had “manhandled” and “spun around” Censori.
“A rep for Kanye insists Bianca was sexually assaulted — reiterating their claim that one of the brothers grabbed her, spun her around, and blew kisses at her,” TMZ writes. “… also claiming a staff member came to check on her afterward. They add, ‘This was a physical, sexual assault and any attempt to undermine the seriousness of what happened is repellent and vile.'”
Following TMZ's article, Perth Now reported that Ye's account of a sexual assault was never confirmed by witnesses or evidence, but that witnesses said “a man accidentally bumped into the rapper's Aussie wife in the hotel lobby during a busy period.”
According to Rolling Stone, the anonymous brother's lawsuit states that the plaintiff's brother “did not engage in any offensive or inappropriate conduct toward any woman in [Ye's] party earlier that evening, or at any time.” It claimed that Ye “falsely accused” the brother. The lawsuit also claimed that evidence such as video recordings from the scene proved the plaintiff did not engage “in any inappropriate or offensive conduct with a woman in defendant's party, or anyone else.”
Buzz News has reached out to Sheen via email, the Houston brothers via two different Houston Hospitality emails, and Davey Wayne's via email and phone message. Each party did not immediately respond to comment.
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