A California judge has rejected Danny Elfman’s attempt to dismiss the defamation lawsuit filed against him by Nomi Abadi, the Los Angeles composer who alleges Elfman exposed himself and sexually harassed her in 2016 before entering into a settlement and nondisclosure agreement with her a year later.
In a Christmas Eve ruling, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Gail Killefer found that Abadi can proceed with her lawsuit that claims Elfman “peddled appalling lies” and damaged her reputation when he disparaged her in lengthy statement to Rolling Stone for a July 2023 article titled “Danny Elfman Settled a Sexual-Harassment Allegation for $830,000.” In the article, Elfman categorically denied Abadi’s misconduct allegations, calling them “vicious and wholly false.”
It was the “wholly false” line that Judge Killefer highlighted in her ruling. She said at least “some” of Abadi’s allegations appeared to have “minimal merit.” The judge wrote that text messages exist in which Elfman shared “nude photographs of his body” with Abadi, and that once, when Abadi was on her way to see Elfman, he texted her, “Maybe I’ll even be good and put some clothes on . . . A rarity around here.”
“Moreover, Elfman’s admission that he engaged in ‘naked romping’ with plaintiff in Paris permits the finding that defendant Elfman’s outright denial of all of plaintiff’s claims was knowingly false,” the judge wrote. “While defendant Elfman and plaintiff disagree as to the nature of their ‘...
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