Nigel Lythgoe misplaced a bid to drive his fourth sexual assault accuser to disclose her title in court docket.
Aug. 29 2024, Revealed 2:30 p.m. ET
Nigel Lythgoe has misplaced a bid to drive his fourth sexual assault accuser to reveal her title in court docket.
RadarOnline.com completely obtained paperwork exhibiting a Los Angeles choose dominated the alleged sufferer might transfer ahead along with her civil case beneath the pseudonym “Jane Doe”.
The disgraced 75-year-old producer, who was first sued for alleged sexual misconduct by Paula Abdul, had requested for Doe to be pressured to disclose her title. He argued she had “not alleged any particular circumstances that will permit her to proceed anonymously”.
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The disgraced media mogul, 75, requested the choose to drive his accuser to disclose her title.
However the choose declared it was “affordable to conclude that (she) could also be topic to hurt and retaliation ought to her title be publicly revealed.”
The August 27 ruling continued: “The Court docket finds that the character of Plaintiff’s allegations are delicate and private, and anonymity is warranted.”
As this outlet reported, Doe sued Lythgoe in March, claiming the previous So You Suppose You Can Dance choose assaulted her at his LA dwelling in 2018 once they labored collectively.
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The Jane Doe accused Lythgoe of assaulting her at his dwelling in 2018 once they labored collectively.
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Her criticism said: “After a couple of minutes {of professional} discourse, Lythgoe all of a sudden pressured Plaintiff in opposition to the property’s exterior facet wall by shoving his knee between her legs after which began licking Plaintiff’s neck, touching her genitalia, and groping her throughout.”
Doe claimed she “tried to push Lythgoe away from her however he had her pinned in opposition to a wall in order that she couldn’t transfer” and alleged “Lythgoe continued to grope and tried to kiss Plaintiff.”
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The plaintiff filed anonymously, she defined, to “defend her privateness as a sufferer of sexual assault and battery.”
Lythgoe fought again along with his request to strike the criticism except she revealed her id. He feared some witnesses might not come ahead with out realizing the accuser’s id, which may “prejudice” the protection.
Moreover, he argued “the jury and the general public may wrongly infer that Plaintiff is a sufferer just because she is continuing anonymously.”
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Paula Abdul sued the ex-‘American Idol’ producer for alleged sexual assault in December 2023.
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His legal professionals wrote of their June submitting: “Plaintiffs should use their very own title in California courts. It’s black letter regulation.”
The movement continued: “Plaintiff shouldn’t be allowed to besmirch Mr. Lythgoe’s fame in public along with her allegations of sexual abuse whereas hiding within the shadows in anonymity when her allegations are uncovered as unfaithful.”
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The choose, nonetheless, wrote in her choice to disclaim Lythgoe’s movement: “(T)he Court docket is just not satisfied that potential witnesses won’t come ahead just because Plaintiff’s title is just not publicized as a result of it’s Defendant’s accountability to contact witnesses to mount a protection, not for witnesses to search out him after studying a information article concerning the account.
“The Court docket can be unprepared to require disclosure of Plaintiff’s title now due to what might occur at trial, because the Court docket can reevaluate how one can proceed when the motion is about for trial.”
Lythgoe should file a response to Doe’s criticism inside 10 days of the ruling.
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Lythgoe stepped down from ‘SYTYCD’ within the wake of Abdul’s lawsuit.
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The ex-American Idol producer can be preventing Abdul’s December 2023 lawsuit in addition to a subsequent civil case filed by two contestants from his short-lived competitors present, All American Lady.
Lythgoe scored a court docket victory final month when he was dismissed from the All American Lady lawsuit, as a result of a choose agreed the decades-old costs may solely apply to a company entity — not a person — beneath the regulation cited by the ladies of their criticism.
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He informed RadarOnline.com in a press release: “We have all the time mentioned that these claims have been meritless and now the Court docket has agreed. I hope and count on that this would be the first of many comparable wins as I proceed to struggle to clear my title.”
Lythgoe stepped down from SYTYCD within the wake of Abdul’s claims. He has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct.
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