{"id":449510,"date":"2021-04-24T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=449510"},"modified":"2021-04-24T13:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:35:53","slug":"producer-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-singer-kesha-receives-another-court-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/producer-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-singer-kesha-receives-another-court-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Accused Of Sexual Assault By Singer Kesha Receives Another Court Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fproducer-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-singer-kesha-receives-another-court-win%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=449510&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3601.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The man who was accused of sexual assault by singer Kesha Rose Sebert, or Ke$ha, received another win in court on Thursday when an appeals judge ruled he didn\u2019t have to meet a higher standard of review for his defamation claims since he isn\u2019t a household name.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg Law <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/kesha-stuck-with-producers-defamation-suit-over-rape-claims\">reported<\/a> that the Supreme Court of New York Appellate Division, First Department, ruled that music producer Lukasz Gottwald, known as Dr. Luke, didn\u2019t have to meet a higher bar for defamation because even though he is \u201can acclaimed producer, he isn\u2019t a household name.\u201d This means Gottwald \u201cisn\u2019t a public figure, or even a limited-purpose public figure, and therefore isn\u2019t required to show that Kesha acted with malice or gross irresponsibility,\u201d Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court also upheld a lower court judge\u2019s finding that Kesha defamed Gottwald when she allegedly texted Lady Gaga in 2016, falsely the producer raped her and another artist. Those text messages allegedly led to Lady Gaga spreading false allegations regarding Gottwald.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg reported that in February 2020, \u201cthe New York County Supreme Court denied Kesha\u2019s motion for summary judgment on the defamation claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit stems from a recording agreement Kesha signed with Gottwald in 2005, which reportedly required Kesha \u201cto provide Gottwald\u2019s production company, KMI, exclusive recording services that could be extended through the release of her sixth album,\u201d Bloomberg reported. Kesha later tried to get out of the agreement and threatened to accuse Gottwald of drugging and sexually abusing her at a party in October 2005, a claim Gottwald has vigorously denied.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Kesha and her mother both testified that the drugging and sexual assault never happened. The testimony came in a lawsuit filed by Kesha\u2019s former managers against the singer and Gottwald.<\/p>\n<p>Even with that testimony, Kesha continued to make accusations against Gottwald, which were parroted uncritically by the media and activists. Gottwald alleges this was done to try and get him to release the singer from their recording agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Gottwald\u2019s attorney, Christine Lepera, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/music\/2016\/02\/23\/kesha-dr-luke-speaks-out-court-case\/80794486\/\">called<\/a> the allegations against him \u201coutright lies that have been advanced to\u00a0extort a contract renegotiation and money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKesha and her counsel have cavalierly subjected Dr. Luke and his family to trial by Twitter, using a vicious smear campaign to ruin his reputation for financial gain while failing to support their claims,\u201d Lepera added.<\/p>\n<p>Lepera made the statements after a judge ruled against Kesha\u2019s attempt to end her recording agreement with Gottwald.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The court] found that Kesha is already \u2018free\u2019\u00a0to record and release music without working with Dr. Luke as a producer if she doesn\u2019t want to. Any claim that she isn\u2019t \u2018free\u2019\u00a0is a myth,\u201d Lepera said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the court \u201calso noted multiple times that her vague abuse allegations were devoid of factual detail, and that there was no evidence, whether from doctors or anyone else, to support them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York appellate court on Thursday granted partial summary judgement to Gottwald for Kesha\u2019s text to Lady Gaga, agreeing that it was defamation.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who was accused of sexual assault by singer Kesha Rose Sebert, or Ke$ha, received another win in court on Thursday when an appeals judge ruled he didn\u2019t have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276637,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3601.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Producer Accused Of Sexual Assault By Singer Kesha Receives Another Court Win","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3601.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Producer Accused Of Sexual Assault By Singer Kesha Receives Another Court Win","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}