UPDATE, 5:40 PM: Over 24 hours after Paul Abdul filed her sexual assault and gender violence lawsuit against Nigel Lythgoe and American Idol producers, the co-creator of So You Think You Can Dance has finally responded.
Lythgoe has gone on the offensive against what he says are false accusations and a “smear” on his character.
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Abdul has alleged that Lythgoe assaulted her on two occasions — once in the early years of the widely successful Idol in a hotel elevator and again in 2015 at his home at a SYTYCD meeting. The Grammy winner also claims that she was ruthlessly mocked and underpaid for her pivotal role in Idol’s small screen dominance in the first decade of the 21st century. In her jury trial seeking complaint (see a link to the full filing below) Abdul additionally insists she witnessed Lythgoe assault one of his assistants at a Las Vegas Idol filming and that the EP taunted her that the statute of limitations had run out on one of the assaults.
None of that is true, Lythgoe says today.
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