He says once the company parted ways with Allen, her position was eliminated. When she told Bowers about allegedly being raped and sexually abused, Wide Open Music dropped Allen as a client - but according to her lawsuit, they also terminated her.īowers tells Variety that he did not fire Jane Doe for retaliation. Jane Doe says she reported some of Allen’s verbal harassment to her boss on numerous occasions. In two conversations with Variety, and in the lawsuit, the woman claims she was manipulated and groomed by Allen into a sexually abusive relationship that lasted for over a year and a half. He is also credited as a producer and songwriter on all of his albums. Bowers discovered Allen in 2016 and with his management firm, he helped catapult the performer to country music superstardom. The woman - who requested to remain anonymous in order to protect her identity and because she still works in the music industry - is suing Allen, as well as her former employer, Wide Open Music, and Ash Bowers, its founder. They did not cite any reason for their split, but shared that his wife is pregnant their third child. On April 21, Allen and his wife announced their separation. Off-stage, Allen’s personal life has recently been making headlines. The response was a hard no, and colored with threats that his team would take steps to publicly tarnish my client. My client had no choice but to be proactive in protecting herself by filing the complaint.”
At no time did our client make a monetary demand. Jane Doe’s attorney pushes back on Allen’s claim that her client ever asked for money, stating, “The only ask we made of Allen and his legal counsel was to meet to discuss Allen’s behavior and resolution of our client’s claims. I’ve worked incredibly hard to build my career, and I intend to mount a vigorous defense to her claims and take all other legal action necessary to protect my reputation.” The simple fact is, her accusations are not only false, but also extremely damaging. Only after things ended between us, did she hire a lawyer to reach out and ask for money, which leads me to question her motives. During that time, she never once accused me of any wrongdoing, and she spoke of our relationship and friendship as being something she wanted to continue indefinitely. “I acknowledge that we had a sexual relationship - one that lasted for nearly two years. “It is deeply troubling and hurtful that someone I counted as one of my closest friends, colleagues and confidants would make allegations that have no truth to them whatsoever,” Allen says. In a statement to Variety, Allen claims that he had a consensual sexual relationship with his day-to-day manager. At that point, any physical will was just out the door. Disoriented and confused, she says she remembers Allen saying, “‘I’ve been thinking about this for so long.’” She adds: “He held me in place. “I was disconnected from my body, feeling a sense of panic,” she tells Variety. She realized she had lost her virginity through no choice of her own and felt she had betrayed her faith. She says Allen was laying next to her in bed, and insisted she take a Plan B pill. Two months before his “Ellen” appearance, Allen allegedly raped this same woman during a different work trip to Los Angeles, in March 2021, when he was filming an episode of “American Idol” as a celebrity guest, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Tennessee federal court in which the woman is identified as “Jane Doe.” She claims that following a business dinner after the “Idol” taping, she woke up naked in her hotel room in severe pain and bleeding vaginally, having remembered nothing of what happened the night before. Once they left the taping and got into the car, she says he forced his fingers into her vagina while she tried to yank his hand away. In the 24 hours leading up to his “Ellen” appearance, Allen allegedly assaulted this woman as they traveled together, groping her breasts on the plane, pushing his erect penis against her body in public and masturbating in front of her at the hotel where they were both staying, the woman told Variety. She alleges that while she was employed by the singer’s management company as Allen’s day-to-day manager, Allen raped her and repeatedly subjected her to sexual abuse and harassment over a period of 18 months. As Allen was giving this advice, a woman in her early twenties from his management team was standing backstage.
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