- By Yasmin Rufo
- Tradition reporter
British TV govt Nigel Lythgoe has been accused of sexual assault and battery in a brand new lawsuit.
An unnamed lady has accused Lythgoe, a former choose on US TV’s So You Suppose You Can Dance, of “groping her throughout” after pinning her towards a wall.
It’s the fourth lawsuit towards the 74-year-old in current months, together with one introduced by US singer Paula Abdul.
He has denied all earlier allegations and his representatives gave no remark to US media in regards to the newest lawsuit.
The BBC has contacted his representatives for a response.
Courtroom paperwork filed in Los Angeles declare the lady was left feeling “horribly violated” and suffered “extreme emotional and psychological misery” after the alleged assault in 2018.
Her lawyer Melissa Eubanks stated: “Mr Lythgoe allegedly pressured himself upon our shopper throughout what was purported to be a enterprise assembly after which terminated their relationship when she didn’t acquiesce.”
The case comes after two former contestants on All American Woman, of which Lythgoe was a producer, sued him in January over alleged sexual assault.
In the meantime, Abdul has claimed the TV mogul assaulted her whereas the pair labored collectively on American Idol and So You Suppose You Can Dance.
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Paula Abdul claims that Nigel Lythgoe (prime left) first assaulted her throughout an early season of American Idol
In his response to Abdul, filed this week and reported by US media, he referred to as the singer a “well-documented fabulist, with a protracted historical past of telling wild tales which might be untethered from actuality and are primarily designed to draw consideration and make Abdul seem like the sufferer of dreadful misfortune”.
He vigorously denied her claims, calling them “false, despicable, insupportable and life-changing” and describing them as “the worst type of character assassination”.
Lythgoe was an govt producer of Pop Idol and American Idol and has additionally acted as an on-screen choose on Popstars within the UK in addition to So You Suppose You Can Dance within the US.
He stepped down from So You Suppose You Can Dance with a “heavy coronary heart” in January.
