Kesha and producer Dr. Luke have reached a settlement of their long-running authorized battle a month earlier than the case was to go to trial.

The 2 agreed to launch a joint assertion asserting the settlement on their official social media pages. “Solely God is aware of what occurred that night time,” Kesha wrote in her assertion. “As I all the time mentioned, I can not recount every thing that occurred. I’m trying ahead to closing the door on this chapter of my life and starting a brand new one. I want nothing however peace to all events concerned.”

The assertion was adopted by Dr. Luke’s message stating: “Whereas I admire Kesha once more acknowledging that she can not recount what occurred that night time in 2005. I’m completely sure that nothing occurred.”

He added: “I by no means drugged or assaulted her and would by no means do this to anybody. For the sake of my household, I’ve vigorously fought to clear my identify for almost 10 years. It’s time for me to place this troublesome matter behind me and transfer on with my life. I want Kesha nicely.”
Different particulars of the settlement will not be identified at the moment.

The case was set to go to trial subsequent month. Kesha initially sued the producer in 2014, claiming he had sexually assaulted and emotionally abused her. Dr. Luke has denied the claims and countersued the artist, claiming she had breached the recording contract they’d with each other and made up rape allegations in an try and get out of the deal. Kesha maintained her unique claims in opposition to Dr. Luke.

Dr. Luke sued Kesha for defamation in 2014, partly claiming she had defamed him by telling Woman Gaga he had raped Katy Perry. Perry denied the declare throughout a deposition, whereas Dr. Luke has additionally denied the declare. Manhattan Supreme Court docket Choose Jennifer G. Schecter dominated within the producer’s favour in 2020.

Based on Stereogum, a decide dominated that Dr. Luke can be thought of a “public determine” within the case which might reverse a earlier ruling made in 2021 that claimed the producer can be a thought of a non-public determine as a result of he was a not a family identify.

That will have meant that his legal professionals must show that Kesha acted with “precise malice” when she made her public statements about Dr. Luke.

In different information, Kesha lately launched her fifth studio album ‘Gag Order’ earlier this yr. In a three-star overview of the album, NME shared: “Probing, purging and unflinching private, ‘Gag Order’ – regardless of its title – is the embodiment of an artist who has discovered their voice.”