Film composer Danny Elfman has denied allegations from a woman who claimed that he sexually harassed her over 20 years ago, stating that the claims were “meritless” and “would carry no weight in a court of law.”
In Elfman’s answer to the anonymous Jane Doe accuser’s allegations, filed in Los Angeles Court on Monday, Elfman and his legal team claimed that the suit “was maliciously filed by Plaintiff and her attorneys, without any valid basis in fact or law, for the improper purpose of embarrassing Mr. Elfman and extorting settlement money.
Elfman’s attorney, Camille Vasquez, accused Doe and her attorneys of “embark[ing] on a disinformation campaign.” “By publicizing her allegations and using provocative, but untrue, buzzwords throughout her pleading, Plaintiff all but guaranteed widespread, salacious press coverage that was certain to damage Mr. Elfman, notwithstanding the meritless nature of her claims,” they wrote.
The response comes about two weeks after the Jane Doe accuser came forward with her allegations in the initial suit, claiming that Elfman frequently exposed himself to her and that he allegedly told her that he masturbated next to her while she was asleep and couldn’t consent to the act. The allegations are similar to those from Los Angeles composer Nomi Abadi, who entered an $830,000 settlement and non-disclosure agreement with Elfman over the allegations in 2017, as Rolling Stone reported in July. The Jane Doe plaintiff said in the suit that she decided to...
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