Kevin Liles, the Baltimore-born music mogul who is currently fighting sexual assault allegations, said an artist he signed in the late 1990s is planning to sue him and publish a book of “false and horrendous accusations” against him if he doesn’t pay her $30 million.
In a statement released Tuesday, Liles accused Shanell Jones, the rapper known as Lady Luck, of threatening to file a lawsuit and publicly share details of him grooming her and trying to force her to perform oral sex on him. This comes just a few months after an unidentified woman who previously worked at Def Jam while Liles was president of the company in the early 2000s sued him for rape and sexual assault.
“It seems Ms. Jones hopes to leverage the current news environment to pressure me into writing an exorbitant check in order to avoid the negative publicity that will likely result from her false claims,” the statement from Liles read. “I intend to vigorously fight any complaint she may file and will take whatever legal action is necessary against her and the attorneys who have participated in this attempted shakedown.”
Liles signed New Jersey native Jones to Def Jam in 1999 when she was under 18.
“Her threatened allegations are totally false. And they are contradicted by Ms. Jones’s many public statements about me and her experience at Def Jam. They are also at odds with her continued outreach and relationship with both my family and me for the past 26 years,” Liles’ statement continued. “Her story is a...
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