The music producer has released another statement in connection to a lawsuit launched by the 'Tik Tok' singer, calling her claims parts of her 'smear campaign.'
- Oct 17, 2014
AceShowbiz - Dr. Luke, who is facing a legal battle against Kesha, formerly known as Ke$ha, has released another statement addressing the singer's sex assault and emotional abuse claims. In a statement released on Thursday, October 16, his attorney Christine Lepera calls the "Tik Tok" hitmaker's lawsuit a "fiction."
"Kesha's lawsuit is a spectacular and outrageous fiction that will go down in flames. As the truth emerges, this sad and misguided smear campaign will only hurt Kesha," the statement reads. "We are confident the courts will decide that Kesha's current claims are absolutely false, chief among them the preposterous accusation that Luke date raped Kesha when she was 18."
Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, also revealed an e-mail allegedly written by Kesha's mother to show that the lawsuit is their extortion scheme. "Do we want all this to come out? Either this Luke releases Kesha from all legal contracts, and gives me back all my publishing, or we, Kesha and I. tell the truth. And if I wind up dead, TRUST ME, IT'S IN WRITING TO CALL YOU AND LUKE," it read.
Kesha's camp has responded to the statement. "It is telling that Dr. Luke would twist an email from a horrified and justifiably angry mother threatening to tell the truth - the truth! - about the predator that sexually assaulted her daughter," her attorney Mark Geragos told PEOPLE. "It is offensive - but not surprising - that Dr. Luke would try and pervert the words of a concerned mother to try and keep Kesha under his unilateral control against her will."
In other news, a separate report by TMZ suggests that Kesha told doctors who treated her during a rehab stint earlier this year about the alleged abuse. Sources claimed that the doctors kept notes which could be evidence in the court. A rep for the producer quickly fired back, saying, "That's preposterous. Just because someone says something to a doctor doesn't mean they weren't fabricated or part of an overall pre-planned campaign."
