NEW YORK (AP) — Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the Grammy-winning music government who influenced the profession of artists together with Pink, Usher and Mariah Carey, was sued by a former music government who says he sexually assaulted her and derailed her profession.
Drew Dixon filed the lawsuit Wednesday in a New York federal courtroom. Dixon, who labored for Reid when he was chief government of Arista Information, alleges that Reid sexually assaulted her twice in 2001 and later reduce her price range and sidelined artists when she rebuffed his persevering with advances.
Dixon left Arista in 2002 and contends that her “meteoric trajectory” within the music enterprise was reduce quick by Reid’s harassment.
“This litigation isn’t solely concerning the horrific bodily assaults that Ms. Dixon needed to endure however it is usually concerning the irreparable injury accomplished to the uncommon and blossoming profession of a unprecedented expertise,” the lawsuit mentioned.
Dixon is in search of unspecified damages.
The Related Press doesn’t usually title individuals who say they had been sexually assaulted except they come ahead publicly.
Messages left for Joel Katz, an legal professional who represented Reid when Dixon first made her allegations public in 2017, weren’t instantly returned Wednesday night time.
The Related Press wasn’t instantly capable of finding a publicist, agent, or different contact quantity for Reid. The New York Occasions, which first reported the information of the lawsuit, mentioned Reid didn’t reply to a number of requests for remark Wednesday.
Dixon sued below New York state’s Grownup Survivors Act, handed final yr, which permits alleged victims of sexual abuse a one-year window to sue even when the unique statute of limitations has handed. The deadline is Nov. 24.
In 2017, Reid left his place as CEO of Epic Information after a former feminine assistant accused him of sexual harassment.
Reid informed The New York Occasions on the time: “I’m pleased with my observe file selling, supporting and uplifting girls at each firm I’ve ever run. That however, if I’ve ever mentioned something able to being misinterpreted, I apologize unreservedly.”
