Singer Kesha is filing a lawsuit against her former mentor and record producer Dr. Luke over a number of allegations, of which including sexual assault as well as battery. The singer is also suing his companies Kasz Money, Precription Songs, Where Da Kasz At? and Kemosabe Records for allegations of sexual harassment, gender violence, civil harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress and other causes of action.
The 27-year-old singer claims that Luke had persuaded her to stop high school and leave her family to go Los Angeles to begin her music career. In her lawsuit, she claims that, "For the past ten years, Dr. Luke has sexually, physically, verbally and emotionally abused [her] to the point where [she] nearly lost her life. Dr. Luke abused [her] in order to destroy her self-confidence, self-image, and self-worth so that he could maintain complete control over her life and career."
The Timber singer also stated in her lawsuit that she was forced by Luke once to take an illicit drug before she boarded on the plane. In the flight, Luke had forced himself into her while she was high. He also gave her sober pills which landed her in Luke's bed naked the next day. The sober pills were in actuality, a drug called GHB. Luke had also threatened her to keep everything mum.
In response to the singer's lawsuit, Dr. Luke had filed a counter lawsuit against Kesha, her mother and her newly hired management company Vector Management. Luke is suing for defamation, breach of contract, tortious interference with contractual relationships. Luke also claims the Kesha's allegations are false.
In a statement to E! News, Luke's attorney Christine Lepera said, "As set forth in the complaint that we have filed on behalf of Dr. Luke, Kesha and her mother are engaged in a campaign of publishing outrageous and untrue statements about Dr. Luke to third parties, including scurrilous and false statements of purported physical and mental abuse of Kesha. These are allegations that Kesha and Pebe have themselves admitted are false. The complaint explains that Kesha and her mother Pebe have wielded these defamatory statements in an attempt to extort Gottwald into releasing Kesha from her exclusive recording agreement with Dr. Luke. We understand that Kesha has filed a lawsuit of her own against Dr. Luke, though we have not yet seen it. Undoubtedly, Kesha's lawsuit is nothing more than a continuation of her bad and offensive acts. We are confident that Dr. Luke will prevail in all matters, and that our client will be awarded substantial damages for this malicious conduct."
