Judge Dismisses Kesha’s bid for Absolution from Recording Contract

A New York adjudicator on Wednesday threw out pop brilliant Kesha’s acknowledged bid to atom her
recording arrangement with Sony Music and her producer, Dr. Luke, whom the accompanist has accused of abduction and added forms of abuse.

Kesha, 29, endure ages appealed New York Supreme Court Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich’s accommodation to debris to absolution her from a six-album arrangement with Sony, afterwards the accompanist filing a animal advance accusation adjoin Dr. Luke in 2014.

Kornreich begin in February that Kesha was chargeless to almanac for Sony with added producers, after arrest from Dr. Luke, a accommodation the aerialist said was affiliated to slavery.

Without chief on the accuracy of Kesha’s allegations, including that she had been drugged, raped and emotionally abused by Dr. Luke, Kornreich disqualified on Wednesday that a lot of of the singer’s claims did not aggregate accurate causes of activity to abate a arrangement beneath New York law.

In her adjournment order, Kornreich aswell disqualified that the atrocity declared by Kesha occurred alfresco the court’s administration and that her complaint of animal advance was barred from acknowledged analysis by the statute of limitations.

Neither assembly for Kesha, whose abounding name is Kesha Sebert, nor Dr. Luke, built-in Lukasz Gottwald, could anon be accomplished for comment. The ambassador has ahead denied Kesha’s allegations of abduction and affecting abuse.

Kornreich aswell took affair with Kesha’s affirmation that the animal abandon she declared was motivated by her gender, an altercation the adjudicator begin spurious. “Every abduction is not a gender-motivated abhorrence crime,” Kornreich wrote.

Kesha said on her absolute Instagram page beforehand this anniversary that she had been offered a absolution from her contract, but alone “IF i were to lie.”

“I would accept to APOLOGIZE about and say that I never got raped. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS abaft bankrupt doors. I will not yield aback the TRUTH. I would rather let the accuracy ruin my career than lie for a monster anytime again,” the accompanist posted.

The case sparked the #Free Kesha attack on amusing media, with supporters adage they had delivered added than 400,000 signatures on petitions allurement Sony to absolution Kesha from her contract.

Taylor Swift has donated $250,000 to Kesha, while Adele, Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande accept aswell accurate their abutment for the singer.