Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the Grammy-winning music govt who influenced the profession of artists together with Pink, Usher, and Mariah Carey, was sued by a former music govt who says he sexually assaulted her and derailed her profession.
Drew Dixon filed the lawsuit Wednesday in a New York federal court docket.
Dixon, who labored for Reid when he was chief govt of Arista Information, alleges that Reid sexually assaulted her twice in 2001 and later lower 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 lower brief by Reid’s harassment.
“This litigation shouldn’t be solely in regards to the horrific bodily assaults that Ms. Dixon needed to endure however additionally it is in regards to the irreparable harm completed to the uncommon and blossoming profession of a rare expertise,” the lawsuit mentioned.
Dixon is in search of unspecified damages.
The Related Press doesn’t sometimes identify individuals who say they have been sexually assaulted until they come ahead publicly.
Messages left for Joel Katz, an lawyer 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 Instances, which first reported the information of the lawsuit, mentioned Reid didn’t reply to a number of requests for remark Wednesday.
Dixon sued beneath 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 instructed The New York Instances on the time: “I’m happy with my observe report 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.”