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The musician who submitted a sexual-battery lawsuit in November towards ex-Grammys CEO Neil Portnow is now inquiring that her situation be dismissed citing privacy worries. In a letter to Decide Analisa Torres of Federal District Court in Manhattan received by the New York Moments, the plaintiff claimed she was worried that her identification would be exposed must the scenario continue. Days in advance of, her lawyers had opposed a statement from Portnow’s legal professionals inquiring for her title to be disclosed.
The plaintiff’s lawyer, Jeffrey R. Anderson, has filed a motion to withdraw as her counsel. He wrote that she experienced despatched the letter devoid of his information and that “the lawyer-consumer romantic relationship has deteriorated beyond fix.” The plaintiff’s letter referred to disputes with her attorneys it bundled what she claimed are quotations from e-mail with her illustration, arguing that Portnow would “prevail” in having her title on document and that “your name will be manufactured public which will induce hurt to you and your reputation.”
The allegation in opposition to Portnow was initial built community in 2020 in a complaint that Deborah Dugan, Portnow’s successor as Grammys CEO, built following getting positioned on depart. His accuser claims that in June 2018, she went back to his lodge place, drank a glass of wine, and “began to sense woozy.” She asked to leave, but Portnow would not permit her. She suggests she missing consciousness and woke up to him assaulting her. His agent denied the allegations in 2023, calling them “completely false” and “the product of the plaintiff’s imagination.”
