Hipgnosis Songs Group CEO Kenny MacPherson Sued for Sexual Battery and Harassment
variety.comSteven J. Horowitz Kenny MacPherson, CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Group, faces allegations of sexual battery and harassment in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by a woman who previously worked with him at the music publishing company Chrysalis.
Sara Lewis, who worked with MacPherson when he was president of the music publishing shingle Chrysalis, filed the suit on Oct.
4, listing MacPherson and BMG as defendants. She worked with MacPherson in the mid-2000s as an A&R, claiming that his actions under his leadership drove her out of the industry.
In the suit, she alleges that she “endured an onslaught of unwanted sexual advances by MacPherson, who unabashedly used his power and authority to exact Sara’s compliance and submission.” Lewis claims that MacPherson spent years grooming and harassing her, engaging in non-consensual touching, groping and traumatic sexual assault.
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