Nigel Lythgoe is going through a number of lawsuits.
Jun. 18 2024, Printed 2:30 p.m. ET
Nigel Lythgoe is slamming the “baseless” and “inflammatory” accusations from two feminine contestants on his unsuccessful ex-reality present All American Woman, claiming there are a number of causes he can poke holes of their allegations, together with the guts assault he suffered earlier than the alleged incidents occurred.
In authorized paperwork obtained by RadarOnline.com, the embattled tv mogul, 74, questioned the pair’s motives behind the lawsuit, claiming the timing of their submitting was “strategically deliberate to unjustifiably assault N.L.’s character, with careless disregard for the statutory authority making these allegations premature.”
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Lythgoe claimed he suffered a well being emergency months earlier than the alleged “groping” incident.
As this outlet reported, the ladies filed a lawsuit towards Lythgoe utilizing “Jane Doe” pseudonyms in January. They alleged Lythgoe “overtly swatted and groped” their butts on the short-lived 2003 competitors present’s set and dressing rooms earlier than issues allegedly escalated at his house on the way in which to the collection’ wrap celebration.
The So You Suppose You Can Dance government produced the competitors actuality collection, which he stated was filmed between January 2003 and roughly Might 2003. As Lythgoe identified, “Plaintiffs had been contestants on the present, however neither one was the winner.”
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Within the newest set of authorized paperwork, Lythgoe knowledgeable the court docket that “In January 2003, 4 months previous to the incident alleged by the Plaintiffs, N.L. had his first coronary heart assault.”
He stated that because of the well being emergency and different work commitments, he was “seldom on set of AAG.” When he was, “he was not alone with the Plaintiffs” regardless of their claims that staff of the present “witnessed” his alleged “groping and swatting” of their and others’ buttocks.
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The ladies sued Lythgoe in January, claiming issues escalated at his L.A. house.
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Lythgoe insisted that opposite to their accusations, “different contestants, members of the crew, and producers had been current” when he was on the set and backstage — claiming one other ex-contestant would vouch for him.
“A former contestant who was current within the dressing rooms in addition to in all different group settings involving Plaintiffs from January by Might 2003, will affirm that N.L. didn’t enter the dressing rooms and by no means swatted and/or groped anybody’s buttocks,” he stated, including producers and show-runners of AAG will again that up.
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However their alleged false allegations did not cease there — so claimed Lythgoe.
“There was no after celebration hosted by Roe Manufacturing Firm involving the contestants following the completion of filming,” he claimed, including “there was no funds for a wrap celebration” due to the “tremendously disappointing present rankings” and failure to get picked up for a second season.
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Lythgoe claimed there was no after-party due to horrible rankings.
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Lythgoe insisted the present “had already completed filming” when the ladies alleged they’d gotten into his automotive for a journey to the after-party and wound up at his home.
“N.L. was not their employer (to the extent he ever was), he was not their boss (to the extent he ever was), he was not in any place of energy because it associated to Plaintiffs. It thus stretches credulity that Plaintiffs, who declare they had been groped and swatted onset through the present by N.L. would then select to get into N.L.’s automotive (after a celebration that by no means occurred) somewhat than merely get a journey from any one of many different individuals going again to the studio, as they allege,” the authorized paperwork learn.
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Paula Abdul sued Nigel, accusing him of sexually assaulting her on two events.
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Lythgoe alleged their “twenty-plus-year-old” accusations of negligence, sexual assault/battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, and intentional infliction of emotional misery must be questioned. He claimed their allegations “did not adjust to the strict necessities set forth within the Sexual Abuse and Cowl Up Accountability Act” — the identical regulation that allowed Paula Abdul to file her sexual assault lawsuit towards him.
RadarOnline.com advised you first — Lythgoe will face Abdul in court docket on August 25, 2025.