L.A. Reid In Pre-Settlement Talks With Sexual Assault Accuser

L.A. Reid and his authorized workforce are in talks with sexual assault accuser Drew Dixon and her authorized workforce to debate the subsequent steps within the case. In keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by AllHipHop, which have been filed on Friday (March 1) with the USA District Courtroom Southern District of New York, mediation is ready for March 29. The paperwork marks the plaintiff and defendant’s first month-to-month “Joint Discovery Standing Report” updating the courtroom on the events’ progress in discovery.

The docs additionally present Dixon issued subpoenas to Artista Information, Sony Music Leisure and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG). Reid, alternatively, has despatched out subpoenas to Dixon’s medical suppliers, together with MedStar Washington Hospital Middle, Amarilis Rivera and Dr. Valerie Bryant.

Dixon, who was a former govt at Arista, filed the go well with in November 2023. She claims Reid assaulted her not as soon as however twice in 2001. The go well with alleges Reid groped, kissed and penetrated Dixon with out her consent on an organization journey and through a experience dwelling from an occasion in New York. She accuses Reid of stalling her profession after the alleged assaults.

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Dixon accused Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons of being a sexual abuser in 2017. She additionally named Reid as one other trade heavyweight who allegedly sexually harassed her within the 2000s.

“It was a quid professional quo: ‘I’ve energy, you need entry, sleep with me — or I’m going to be actually imply to you the subsequent day,’” she mentioned on the time. “‘And there will likely be penalties.’”

Subsequently, Dixon is suing Reid for sexual battery/assault (Rely I), false imprisonment (Rely II), intentional infliction of emotional misery (Rely III) and gender motivated violence act (Rely IV). In January 2024, Reid’s attorneys—Bobbi C. Sternheim and Shawn Holley—requested Honorable Valerie E. Caproni to dismiss Counts II and III of Dixon’s criticism, strike sure statutory references in Rely I and grant such different and additional aid deemed “simply and correct.”

Dixon’s criticism stems from two incidents: one in January 2001 and one other that allegedly occurred a number of months later that very same yr. Dixon alleges “ongoing sexual harassment and profession sabotage.” She’s utilizing the New York Grownup Survivors Act (“ASA”) and the New York Metropolis Gender Motivated Violence Act (“GMVA”) to advance time-barred claims. Every of these legal guidelines revive the statute of limitations to allow civil actions associated to sure sexual offenses.