She’s suing him for alleged sexual assault.
Mar. 6 2024, Printed 5:20 p.m. ET
Paula Abdul is doubling down on her sexual assault claims in opposition to Nigel Lythgoe, along with her legal professional giving RadarOnline.com a handful of harassing messages that the TV mogul allegedly despatched after the reported incidents befell.
As this outlet reported, Lythgoe denied Abdul’s accusations and included a number of non-public emails and different correspondence from the singer after the alleged assaults, which he claimed proved his case. However he is not the one one with receipts.
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Paula sued Nigel in December 2023, claiming he assaulted her on two events throughout her stints on ‘American Idol’ and ‘So You Suppose You Can Dance.’
Abdul’s legal professional, Melissa Eubanks, informed RadarOnline.com, “Whereas Mr. Lythgoe’s reply cherry-picks from years of messages with Ms. Abdul to attempt to discredit her claims, what his choices fail to indicate are the quite a few situations of overt sexual harassment he compelled Ms. Abdul to tolerate.”
She mentioned that on March 8, 2014, “Mr. Lythgoe wrote to Ms. Abdul: ‘Once you get again to LA will you please make like to me! Slowly and lovingly!’ When Ms. Abdul failed to reply, Mr. Lythgoe proclaimed: ‘I’ll take that as a YES then!'”
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Abdul claimed he grabbed her breasts and genitals whereas attempting to kiss her in an elevator.
One month later, Lythgoe allegedly despatched one other inappropriate message.
“On April 10, 2014, he equally wrote, in response to a message from Ms. Abdul about SYTYCD auditions in Las Vegas: ‘I’ll come in case you promise a giant moist kiss! With tongues! Is a small grope of the a– asking an excessive amount of?'”
Abdul’s lawyer mentioned the alleged harassment did not cease there.
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“In July 2014, Mr. Lythgoe even acknowledged the inappropriateness of his conduct to Ms. Abdul: ‘you’re keen on me like a relation I like you want a girlfriend. I might simply be your f—— cousin? Ha Ha.'”
Her legal professional added, “There are a number of situations of such verbal assaults in opposition to Ms. Abdul, that are proof of the frequent abusive conduct that Ms. Abdul was subjected to throughout her time on American Idol and SYTYCD.”
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Nigel Lythgoe has been hit with one other lawsuit.
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She additionally believes that Lythgoe is “sufferer shaming” Abdul.
“Mr. Lythgoe fails to understand that he held a place of energy over Ms. Abdul. He was a producer on American Idol and SYTYCD and she or he was the expertise. He held the playing cards to her profession in his hand and he knew it. It thus isn’t any shock that Ms. Abdul placated to his ego with constructive messaging and seeming adoration. These are the defenses that many ladies like Ms. Abdul needed to undertake to take care of males who abuse their energy,” Eubanks informed RadarOnline.com.
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RadarOnline.com informed you — the Reverse’s Entice singer sued Lythgoe in December 2023, accusing him of sexual assault on two separate events whereas filming American Idol and So You Suppose You Can Dance.
He denied the allegations, calling them “false” and “deeply offensive.”
Lythgoe has since been sued by three different girls, who additionally alleged that he sexually assaulted them.