{"id":511631,"date":"2026-01-12T20:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511631\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:45:14","slug":"music-mogul-l-a-reid-settles-drew-dixons-sexual-assault-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511631\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Mogul L.A. Reid Settles Drew Dixon’s Sexual Assault Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAntonio \u201cL.A.\u201d Reid, a Grammy-winning music<\/a> executive known for helping launch the careers of Usher, OutKast and Pink, has settled a lawsuit from Drew Dixon, a former Arista Records executive who accused him of sexual assault and retaliation on multiple occasions across the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

\n\tTerms of the last-minute settlement, reached on Monday ahead of the start of jury selection and opening statements, weren\u2019t disclosed. \u201cMr. Reid has amicably resolved this matter with Ms. Dixon without any admission of liability,\u201d Imran Ansari, a lawyer for the mogul, said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\n\tDixon brought the lawsuit under the under the New York Adult Survivors Act, which revived the window to bring sexual misconduct claims for one year regardless of the statute of limitations. In a statement, she said she hopes her work advocating for the law \u201chelps to bring us closer to a safer music business for everyone.\u201d She added, \u201cIn a world where good news is often hard to find, I hope for survivors that today is a ray of light peeking through the clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDixon, in a lawsuit filed in New York federal court in 2023, accused Reid of digitally penetrating her in 2001 on a private jet and again in a car the same year. After she started to avoid him following the incident, she claimed he retaliated against her by\u00a0 \u201cembarrassing her in front of others or otherwise being curt and unprofessional,\u201d ultimately forcing her out of the industry.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe filing of the lawsuit followed accusations<\/a> from Dixon made in 2017 that Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, raped her and that Reid harassed her, forcing her out of the music industry. (Simmons denied the claim.) Around that time, Reid exited<\/a> from the top job at Sony\u2019s Epic Records after he was accused of sexual misconduct by an assistant. Dixon, who contributed to hit songs from West, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin, said her career was thwarted due to retaliation and health issues she continues to suffer as a result of the assaults.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal averts a trial in which some high-profile names were set to testify, including John Legend, who was being recruited by Dixon. She later joined the musician as a general manager at Homeschool Records.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the suit, Dixon suffered ongoing harassment in the form of demands from Reid for her to wear skirts and high heels, as well as daily invitations to meet in his hotel room. Their relationship allegedly turned hostile when she refused.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe suit alleged that Dixon\u2019s promotional and recording budgets were slashed and that her song demos and artist auditions were consistently rejected. On one occasion when she brought West in for an audition, she was allegedly berated in front of staff \u201cabout how bad she was at her job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDixon brought claims for alleges sexual battery, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among others. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDrew has been one of the most courageous and outspoken supporters of survivors of sexual abuse,\u201d said Kenya Davis, a lawyer for Dixon, in a statement. \u201cHer advocacy, including her instrumental role in advancing the Adult Survivors Act, has helped shift the balance of power in the music industry, creating a path to justice for survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antonio \u201cL.A.\u201d Reid, a Grammy-winning music executive known for helping launch the careers of Usher, OutKast and Pink,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[228724,1582,276,2961,224,5337,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-511631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-antonio-l-a-reid","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115884086071512230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}