Paula Abdul is speaking out via her legal team after the latest development in her lawsuit against Nigel Lythgoe.
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New legal documents made public Friday by the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission indicate former CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves has paid an $11,250 fine for trying to influence a former LAPD captain.
NBC4 reports that in 2017, an L.A. police captain was leaking confidential information about a criminal investigation on Moonves. The top CBS executive had been accused of sexually assaulting a former employee.
Earlier this month, Moonves agreed to pay the $11,250 fine for violating the city’s ethics code by “inducing” a city official to misuse his position in order to create an advantage for Moonves.
The former LAPD captain, Corey Palka, personally provided Moonves with information about the LAPD investigation and the former Moonves employee who made the accusation. Palka was the commanding officer of the Hollywood Division in 2017.
The Ethics Commission said Palka met with Moonves on November 25, 2017 at a restaurant in Westlake Village to share confidential information.
“They met for about an hour and discussed the LAPD investigation,” the ethics summary said. “The meeting was not part of the official investigation by the LAPD.”
In December of that year, Moonves texted Palka directly and discussed the case again, the commission found.
Palka is now retired. New York Attorney General Letitia James first revealed in 2022 that the LAPD provided confidential information to executives at CBS as they attempted to manage the crisis.
The woman who made the Moonves accusation, Phyllis Gottlieb, claimed in 2022 that she was assaulted by Moonves while working for him at an entertainment firm in 1986.
However, she made the crime report to the LAPD in 2017, well beyond the statute of limitations, and no criminal charges
Paula Abdul is speaking out via her legal team after the latest development in her lawsuit against Nigel Lythgoe.
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So You Think You Can Dance co-creator and former judge Nigel Lythgoe has been accused of sexual assault for the fourth time in less than three months.
before she alleged that he sexually assaulted her, according to TMZ.Lythgoe, 74, filed legal documents on Tuesday, three months after Abdul, 61, alleged that Lythgoe sexually assaulted her twice, dating back to their time together working on “American Idol” and then again on Lythgoe’s Fox series “So You Think You Can Dance.”Following Abdul’s allegations, Lythgoe left “So You Think You Can Dance,” on which he was a judge, and was eventually replaced by JoJo Siwa, who was a judge on the show in 2022. Lythgoe called Abdul a “well-documented fabulist, with a long history of telling wild stories that are untethered from reality and are primarily designed to attract attention and make Abdul appear to be the victim of dreadful misfortune,” according to TMZ.Lythgoe included several private emails he says Abdul sent him, including one dated Sept.
Katcy Stephan Nigel Lythgoe has responded to Paula Abdul‘s lawsuit in which she alleges she was sexually assaulted by the “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” producer twice. In new documents filed to the L.A.
Nigel Lythgoe called Paula Abdul “erratic” when the former American Idol judge accused him of sexual assault late last year. Today, seeking to have Abdul’s complaint “dismissed in its entirety with prejudice,” the veteran competition show producer made it official with a filing of his own.
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A U.S. District Judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from a woman who alleges that Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler sexually assaulted her when she was 17. The case was one of two pending against the Grammy winner. The other, filed in California in 2022, is still in process.
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has been dismissed.The lawsuit was filed against the rock veteran back in November 2023, when a former teenage model accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1975.In the filing, the plaintiff, Jeanne Bellino, claimed that the singer had sexually assaulted her twice in one day, when she was aged 17 at the time.Now, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan has dismissed the accusations raised against Tyler, and stated that the allegations did not meet a certain criteria needed to be taken further.Bellino had filed the lawsuit under New York City’s Victim of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act – which extended the statute of limitations for certain alleged offences in a bid to encourage more people to come forward and raise cases that otherwise would have been outdated.Yesterday’s (February 21) dismissal came on the basis that Bellino’s claim did not qualify because she did not allege Tyler’s conduct presented a “serious risk of physical injury”. The judge also ruled that the plaintiff showed a “lack of diligence” by not filing the suit under the Child Victims Act, which came before the Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act.Following the accusations, Tyler has “vehemently” denied the claims made.
Nigel Lythgoe has been accused of sexual assault in another lawsuit.
American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe has been accused of sexual assault for the third time in less than two months.
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