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Kesha and Dr Luke due in court today
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 19 February 2016
The latest hearing in Kesha and Dr Luke’s long running legal battle is set to take place at the New York State Supreme Court later today, in relation to the singer’s attempt to get an injunction to record an album with a label other than his Sony imprint Kemosabe, to which she is still contracted.
As previously reported, Kesha sued the producer, real name Lukasz Gottwald, in 2014 alleging sexual assault and battery, accusing him of plying her with drugs and alcohol and raping her as a teenager. He in turn sued her, claiming that she had invented these accusations as a means to get out of her record contract.
Gottwald also sued the singer’s manager Jack Rovner and her mother Pebe Sebert, though both of those suits were dismissed earlier this month (in New York State at least). Today’s ruling is one postponed last month, at which fans were planning to stage a protest aimed at Sony Music boss Doug Morris, calling on him to release Kesha from her current contract with Kemosabe so that she can record a new album, possibly with another Sony label.
In an Instagram post yesterday, Kesha said: “I have nothing left to hide. I did this because the truth was eating away my soul and killing me from the inside. This is not just for me. This is for every woman, every human who has ever been abused. Sexually. Emotionally. Mentally. I had to tell the truth. So the outcome will be what it will be. There’s nothing left I can do. It’s just so scary to have zero control in your fate. But this is my path this life for whatever reason”.
