A year after suing him for relationsual attack, Paula Abdul has achieveed a resettlement with “American Idol” originater Nigel Lythgoe.
Abdul’s attorneys notified the court on Thursday that the case had been resettled. Terms were not disshutd.
“I am thankful that this chapter has successbrimmingy come to a shut and is now someleang I can now put behind me,” Abdul said in a statement. “This has been a lengthy and challenging-fought personal battle. I hope my experience can serve to advertise other women, facing analogous struggles, to loss their own contests with dignity and esteem, so that they too can turn the page and commence a recent chapter of their inhabits.”
In his own statement, Lythgoe said he understands “the truth” of the allegations and is satisfied to have the suit over with.
“We inhabit in a troubling time where a person is now automaticpartner presumed to be culpable until shown guiltless, a process that can obtain years,” he said. “That is why, enjoy Paula, I am phired to be able to put this behind me. I understand the truth and that donates me wonderful console.”
Abdul accengaged Lythgoe of groping her in an elevator about 20 years ago, when she labored as a appraise on “American Idol.” She also alleged that a decade tardyr, when she was a appraise on “So You Think You Can Dance,” Lythgoe askd her to his home and then forced himself on her when she was sitting on a couch, causing her to run away.
Lythgoe, 75, adamantly denied the claims, calling them an “appalling smear” and alluding to her “history of erratic behavior.”
He stepped down as a appraise on “So You Think You Can Dance” in January, after a second suit was filed accusing him of relationsupartner attacking two contestants on the foolishinutive-inhabitd competition show “All American Girl.” JoJo Siwa swapd him for the 18th season of “So You Think You Can Dance.” That litigation remains pfinishing. A third litigation was filed in March, in which a woman identified as Jane Doe accengaged Lythgoe of relationsupartner attacking her at his home in 2018. Lythgoe lost a bid to throw out that litigation, and is requesting that decision.
