Nigel Lythgoe Slapped With Fourth Sexual Assault Suit; 2018 Claim Comes Hours After Producer Tries To Refute Paula Abdul Accusations

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So You Think You Can Dance co-creator and former judge Nigel Lythgoe has been accused of sexual assault for the fourth time in less than three months. “Lythgoe’s sexual assault and battery were so traumatizing that Plaintiff no longer feels like the confident, capable, and independent woman that she was before the incident,” says Jane Doe of the alleged 2018 incident in a filing today in LA Superior Court. Read Jane Does’s sexual assault suit against Nigel Lythgoe here Similar to an alleged 2015 attack Paula Abdul detailed in her own suit late last year, and the early January a sexual assault/battery, sexual harassment and negligence civil suit by Jane Doe K.G.

and Jane Doe K.N., this latest Jane Doe’s claim occurred at Lythgoe’s LA residence. In this case a meeting that seemingly turned toxic fast: After a few minutes of professional discourse, Lythgoe suddenly forced Plaintiff against the property’s exterior side wall by shoving his knee between her legs and then started licking Plaintiff’s neck, touching her genitalia, and grouping her all over.

Plaintiff tried to push Lythgoe away from her but he had her pinned against the wall so that she could not move. Lythgoe continued to grope and tried to kiss Plaintiff.Once Plaintiff could break free of Lythgoe, she immediately left the property and drove away.

However, Plaintiff was so shaken by the attack that she had to pull her car over only a block away from Lythgoe’s residence.