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Pop Star Kesha And Producer Dr. Luke Settle Legal Battle Over Rape
NEW YORK – Kesha and producer Dr. Luke announced Thursday that they have settled nearly a decade of suits and countersuits over her allegation that he drugged and raped her and his claim that she made it up and defamed him, with the singer adding that “only God knows what happened that night.”
Meanwhile, Dr. Luke stated he was “certain that nothing happened.” I never abused her or drugged her.”
The terms of the agreement were not immediately released, but both she and he revealed on Instagram that they had agreed to “a resolution” of the issue and to each of them issuing a statement. Messages were made to their solicitors seeking comment.
“I cannot recount everything that happened,” Kesha said, adding that she wishes “nothing but peace to all parties involved.”
Dr. Luke, on his part, wished her well and expressed his desire “to put this difficult matter behind me” after years of working to clear his name.
The agreement averts a trial slated this summer over charges that created a #MeToo movement for Kesha’s supporters and involved several music industry celebrities. Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Adam Levine, and Taio Cruz were among the individuals who testified or provided sworn statements concerning the lawsuit.
At the same time, the case posed significant legal issues concerning fame and defamation. The stakes were high enough that media outlets expressed concern over pretrial judgments that they feared could aid powerful people in suppressing unfavorable reporting.
The legal dispute between the multiplatinum-selling singer and the Grammy-nominated producer has been ongoing since 2014, threatening their careers.
Kesha and producer Dr. Luke announced Thursday that they have settled nearly a decade of suits and countersuits over her allegation.
Beginning with 2009’s “TiK ToK,” the singer — once known as Ke$ha — built her reputation with swaggering, just-try-to-stop-me party anthems. Dr. Luke, who formed the record label that signed a Nashville unknown named Kesha Rose Sebert at 18, produced those early singles.
He was born Lukasz Gottwald and has produced hit songs for Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, Flo Rida, and others. Dr. Luke has received many Grammy nominations and pop Songwriter of the Year accolades from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
Kesha filed a lawsuit against him in 2014, alleging that he drugged and raped her nine years prior and psychologically abused her throughout their working relationship. He chastised her about her weight, demeaned her voice, and wielded undue authority over her career.
“The abuse I suffered from Luke was a decade long, every day, every moment of every day,” she testified under oath in 2017. According to Kesha, the event triggered an eating problem flare-up, which resulted in her spending two months in a rehabilitation clinic in 2014.
Dr. Luke, who has been cleared of all charges, replied by suing Kesha. He claims she concocted “untrue and deeply hurtful” statements to smear him and get out of her record contract.
“Any reasonable person will not believe her,” he declared under oath in 2017.
Kesha and producer Dr. Luke announced Thursday that they have settled nearly a decade of suits and countersuits over her allegation.
His attorneys have stated that Kesha herself stated in a separate case in 2011 that he “never made sexual advances at me” during sworn questioning. She has now stated that her 2011 statements were “not entirely transparent” because she feared Dr. Luke and felt compelled to defend him.
During the stalemate, Kesha went five years without making an album, claiming she couldn’t work with a “monster” but couldn’t get away from him because she was under contract with his label. His and the label’s lawyers both contended that she was not required to work with him.
She eventually returned in 2017 with “Rainbow” and two additional albums, all produced by different people. “Gag Order,” her most recent album, was released in May.
Dr. Luke’s career suffered as a result of her charges becoming public. He has stated that numerous artists, particularly female artists, have avoided “working with someone who’s called a rapist.”
But, as Tyson Trax, he returned to the top of the charts in 2020 with Doja Cat’s “Say So,” earning his first Grammy nomination since 2014. He was named ASCAP’s pop songwriter of the Year again this year.
Kesha and producer Dr. Luke announced Thursday that they had settled nearly a decade of suits and countersuits over her allegation.
Kesha’s sexual abuse-related claims were dropped along the way due to time constraints and other legal concerns, with no findings on the merits of the allegations. However, she countersued Dr. Luke under a New York law prohibiting the filing of frivolous lawsuits to frighten critics into silence; New York’s highest court just determined that she could pursue those allegations.
The top court, the Court of Appeals in New York, also ruled that Dr. Luke is a “public figure” under the law. This is significant because the legal requirements for proving defamation are more stringent for prominent personalities than ordinary citizens.
Earlier courts ruled that the producer was not a public figure. Over a dozen media sources and organizations intervened in the case, arguing that previous judgments could assist renowned persons in suppressing free speech and reporting on sexual abuse charges.
Kesha was previously forced to pay Dr. Luke more than $373,000 in interest on royalties she owed him for years.
SOURCE – (AP)
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Jason Kelce Smashes Football Fan’s Phone
Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce destroyed a Penn State football fan’s phone after the alleged heckler called his brother, Travis Kelce, a fag.
In now-viral footage published on X (previously Twitter) on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles great was seen accompanied by football fans outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game.
As the individual capturing the tape lifted a fist to Jason, 36, and called his name for a fist bump, another man nearby hurled the homophobic slur at the retired Philadelphia Eagles star.
Hey, Kelce. How does it feel that your brother is a queer dating Taylor Swift?” the man questioned, referring to Travis, 34, who has been seeing Swift since 2023. Jason turned around seconds later, snatched the man’s phone, and crushed it to the ground.
“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the original X user who submitted the video remarked. “Wild scene in State College.”
“Kelce how does it feel that your brother is a f****t for dating Taylor Swift?”
Jason Kelce proceeded to slam this kids phone on the ground.
Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason. Wild scene in State College pic.twitter.com/3PEdZXWhSg
— Chives (@jarrett_daveler) November 2, 2024
Additional footage on X shows Jason smashing the phone on asphalt before picking it up and walking away. The phone’s owner, wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, was shown in many videos strolling closely behind Jason and recording him before the conflict occurred.
Another footage published on X, which appears to have been filmed after Jason shattered the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State supporter trudging through a mob to pick up his phone off the ground.
“Give me my phone, bro,” he seemed to say to Jason.
The NFL alum seized the gadget first, then stood in front of the man and asked, “Who’s the fag now?” Others appeared to interfere.
The incident occurred while Jason was at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes won Saturday’s game 20-13 over the Penn State Nittany Lions.
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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
Shaun White, the Olympic snowboarding champion, already has an impressive medal tally, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev deserves a gold medal.
On Wednesday, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Dobrev posted photographs of the two hugging under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.
“RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev said in the caption.
However, the photographs only tell half the tale, as Shaun devised an elaborate plan to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.
Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
According to a Vogue interview published Wednesday, Shaun said he assembled a team of people from the couple’s inner circle and Vogue personnel to trick Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to an intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour.
Dobrev accepted the invitation, joking that Shaun made it “look so legitimate.”
He even asked Dobrev’s stylist to outfit her in Chanel for the event.
Dobrev said she recognized what was happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing beneath the flowery arch.
Shaun’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
“I went into shock,” Dobrev admitted, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she agreed.
According to the publication, after Shaun proposed, the couple partied into the early morning hours with close friends and relatives.
“Best night of my life,” Shaun captioned his Instagram story on Wednesday.
The duo first became romantically involved in 2020, and they have since publicly recorded their relationship, globe vacations, and White’s Olympic farewell on social media.
SOURCE | CNN
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Hollywood Actress Teri Garr Passes Away at 79
Hollywood actress Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has passed away at 79. She died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer.
Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made everything she was in better.”
Throughout her career, the performer, often known as Terri, Terry, or Terry Ann, seemed destined for show business from a young age.
Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comic, and her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dancing classes at six and was performing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies by age fourteen.
She was 16 years old when she joined the road crew of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and she began starring in small roles in films as early as 1963.
In an interview from 1988, she described how she landed the role in “West Side Story.” After being rejected at her initial audition, she returned the following day dressed differently and was accepted.
Teri Garr, a comedian
Teri Garr then found steady work as a movie dancer, appearing in the chorus of nine Elvis Presley films, including “Viva Las Vegas,” “Roustabout,” and “Clambake.”
She has also appeared on various television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance “T.A.M.I.,” and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”
Her breakthrough role was as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller The Conversation. This led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who offered her the Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant role in Young Frankenstein if she could speak with a German accent.
“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once said.
The film established her as a great comic performer, with New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael calling her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on screen.”
Her big smile and off-center appeal helped her land roles in “Oh, God!” with George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife), and “Tootsie,” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and discovers he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career.
A gift for spontaneous humor
Teri Garr, best known for comedy, has shown in films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Black Stallion, and The Escape Artist that she can also tackle drama.
She had a gift for spontaneous humor, frequently playing David Letterman’s foil during early guest appearances on N.B.C.’s “Late Night With David Letterman”.
Her appearances grew so frequent, and the pair’s good-natured bickering so convincing that rumors of romantic involvement circulated for a while. Years later, Letterman acknowledged those early appearances with helping the program become a success.
During those years, Garr began to experience “a little beeping or ticking” in her right leg. It started in 1983 and expanded to her right arm, but she thought she could handle it. By 1999, her symptoms had gotten so bad that she saw a doctor and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
After disclosing her diagnosis, Garr became a spokesman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, giving hilarious remarks at events in the United States and Canada.
Source: AP
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