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Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee Dismissed

According to nme.com, a judge has given a woman 20 days to file an amended lawsuit against Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee over an alleged sexual assault in a helicopter. The news comes after a woman identified only as Jane Doe allegedly alleged in a lawsuit last December that the Mötley Crüe drummer allegedly assaulted her in 2003 by allegedly luring her to his private helicopter.

In the alleged filing, Doe allegedly claimed they took a 40-minute trip from San Diego to Van Nuys with Lee’s personal helicopter pilot, David Martz, before Lee joined them in landing. Doe further alleged that the two men allegedly “consumed several alcoholic beverages, smoked marijuana and snorted cocaine” before Lee “then sexually assaulted her by forcibly groping her, kissing her, penetrating her with his fingers and attempting to do so.” force her to have oral copulation.”

Doe allegedly said that she suffered severe emotional, physical and psychological distress as a result of the alleged assault and that she allegedly did not report the alleged incident because she allegedly believed it was an alleged isolated incident that police allegedly would not take up she seriously. Yesterday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Holly J. Fujie sided with Lee after the drummer’s attorney argued that the alleged claims under the law were the plaintiff Jane Doe’s when she allegedly filed her The original lawsuit was not eligible for resuscitation.

The law, known as the Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act, requires plaintiffs to prove that some type of “legal entity” made a cooperative effort to conceal evidence of their alleged sexual assault. Lee’s attorney, A. Sasha Frid, argued that Jane Doe allegedly wrote in her initial complaint that Lee was already famous for his “lewd and hedonistic behavior” at the time of the alleged helicopter attack: “That would eliminate any possibility of a cover-up.” Man cannot cover it up when the plaintiff claims that this alleged “lewd” behavior was known to everyone.”

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Holly J. Fujie tentatively dismissed all four causes of action in the lawsuit: alleged sexual assault, gender-based violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence, pending the alleged filing of a new complaint. The judge also said that the plaintiff “failed to allege facts that would support the ‘cover-up’ requirement.” The plaintiff is reportedly seeking unspecified damages.