Paula Abdul and Nigel Lythgoe have settled their lawsuit.
According to court documents obtained from EverybodyAbdul and Lythgoe settled the case in which she accused him of sexual assault.
The request was filed on November 12 and a hearing is set for January 21, 2025 with a trial date of August 2025, although both dates are expected to be vacated later. when the court orders dismissal.
After the lawsuit was settled, Abdul released a statement to Everybody. The 62-year-old singer said she’s happy she can finally move forward and hopes to inspire other women to tell their stories.
“I am grateful that this chapter has ended successfully and that I can now put it behind me. This has been a long and difficult personal battle. I hope my experience can inspire inspire other women, facing similar difficulties, to overcome their own challenges with dignity and respect, so that they too can turn the page and begin a new chapter of their lives. my life,” she said.
The settlement comes a year after Abdul sued Lythgoe, 75, with whom she worked on the film. American Idol And So you think you can dance, alleging that he sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions. She alleges an incident happened during the first seasons of American Idol while something else happens So you think you can dance. She also accused him of sexually assaulting her assistant.
In October, Abdul filed an amended complaint, which alleged that he assaulted her a third time during the same incident in which he allegedly assaulted her assistant.
Lythgoe’s response said that Abdul’s statements were “vague both as to the timing of the alleged assault as well as the details of the alleged incident.”
In the filing, Lythgoe included several written exchanges between him and Abdul in which she expressed her love for him and their friendship.
“It is inconceivable that Abdul would even accept Lythgoe’s physical intimacy, let alone send him adoring messages and sexually provocative jokes, if the allegations of she is right – which clearly she is not,” his profile reads.
He also went on to allege that Abdul is a “pathological liar and attention seeker.”
“She made up stories and then she doubled down, always trying to make herself out to be the victim. Consistent with her previous habit of lying about incidents that allegedly happened to her, these Abdul’s recent allegations against Lythgoe are just fiction. and that was Lythgoe, whose life and career were ruined by Abdul’s lies,” it said.
Abdul’s lawyers have since branded his claims as “typical victim shaming”.
Currently, details about the payment amount are still unclear.
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