Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears are no longer facing a child sexual abuse lawsuit filed earlier this month, The Times has confirmed.
Weeks after the comedians’ reps dismissed the allegations as a “shakedown,” the woman who filed the suit against Haddish and Spears has dropped her claims. According to TMZ, new legal documents show that the unidentified plaintiff — listed as Jane Doe — requested that the judge dismiss the suit “with prejudice.”
“My family and I have known Tiffany Haddish for many years — and we now know that she would never harm me or my brother or help anyone else do anything that could harm us,” the plaintiff reportedly said in a statement, TMZ reported. “We wish Tiffany the best and are glad that we can all put this behind us.”
Representatives for Haddish and Spears did not immediately respond to The Times’ request for comment Tuesday.
On Sept. 1, the Daily Beast first reported the lawsuit, which claimed Haddish and Spears had assaulted a pair of siblings when they were 7 and 14. The suit alleged that Haddish (“Girls Trip”) and Spears (“MADtv”) “groomed” and “molested” the plaintiffs, and that some of the incidents were recorded on video. One video was uploaded to the website Funny or Die, which said it took down the “disgusting” clip in 2018 and that it wasn’t involved in its production.
At the center of the suit were two incidents involving each of the siblings, separately. Jane Doe alleged that in 2013, Spears and Haddish encouraged her to mimic the...
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