Kesha and Dr. Luke Settle Defamation Lawsuit After 9-Year Legal Battle: 'Only God Knows What Happened'
etonline.comKesha and Dr. Luke have settled his defamation lawsuit after a contentious, nine-year legal battle. On Thursday, both the «Tik Tok» singer and the record producer released statements saying they had come to a resolution in the case that was set to go to trial in July.
Kesha's legal battle with Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, stems back to October 2014, when the singer accused the producer of drugging and raping her after a 2005 party, as well as abusing her over the course of 10 years.
Her original 2014 lawsuit alleged sexual, physical and emotional abuse and also was a legal attempt to extricate her from her binding music contract.
Dr. Luke countersued the same year, denying the abuse and alleging she defamed him by going public with her claims. Kesha's lawsuit was dismissed in 2016, however, his defamation lawsuit has continued through several appeals and numerous procedural delays slowing down the process up until today. «Only God knows what happened that night,» Kesha wrote in her statement Thursday. «As I always said, I cannot recount everything that happened.
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