Paula Abdul settled her sexual assault lawsuit against 'American Idol' and 'So You Think You Can Dance' and will head to trial against Nigel Lythgoe.
“The parties went to mediation, and the corporate defendants settled out,” Abdul’s lawyer Douglas L. Johnson told a judge at a Tuesday morning hearing in Los Angeles. “The one remaining defendant left in the case is Nigel Lythgoe.” Lythgoe’s lawyer did not object to Johnson’s request for a trial date, which is currently scheduled for July 28, 2025.
In a filing leading up to the hearing, one of Abdul’s lawyers wrote that settlements with FremantleMedia, American Idol Productions and related producers 19 Entertainment and Dance Nation Productions were reached at a March 18 mediation. The lawyer didn’t disclose any terms, saying only that the deals were still “being finalized.
Lythgoe vehemently denies the allegations. “Plaintiff has concocted purely fictional allegations against Mr. Lythgoe – some dating back more than twenty years – that amount to an unjustified and baseless character assassination,” Lythgoe’s lawyer Amitabh Banerji wrote in an April 15 filing in the case.
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