Subject: Paula Abdul to Nigel Lythgoe: I’m ForNEVER Your Girl

1980s song and dance sensation Paula Abdul has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, accusing TV reality mogul Nigel Lythgoe of sexual assault, on more than one occasion.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/30/entertainment/paula-abdul-nigel-lythgoe-accuses/index.html

The first alleged attack was “in the early 2000s” in an elevator, and the second alleged one was allegedly 8 years ago when Paula was allegedly having dinner at Nigel’s house.

The lawsuit goes on to accuse Lythgoe of assaulting Paula’s assistant.

Lythgoe called allegations “false” and “deeply offensive” in a statement to TMZ.

“To say that I am shocked and saddened by the allegations made against me by Paula Abdul is a wild understatement,” Lythgoe said. “I can promise that I will fight this appalling smear with everything I have.”

Abdul is suing Lythgoe and names 19 Entertainment Inc., FremantleMedia North America Inc., American Idol Productions Inc. and Dance Nation Productions Inc. as co-defendents, accusing them of gender violence, sexual harassment and negligence and of having “ratified and/or authorized Lythgoe’s sexual assault and battery of Abdul” by failing to oversee Lythgoe. She is seeking unspecified punitive damages.

The complaint also states Abdul faced compensatory discrimination while working on “American Idol” “compared to one of the show’s male judges and host” and that she was “the target of constant taunts, bullying, humiliation and harassment.”