Jimmie Allen, the Grammy-nominated singer recognized for “Greatest Shot” and “Warrior,” is chargeable for sexually assaulting a lady in a Las Vegas lodge room in 2022 and filming it, a federal choose determined this week.
Decide Aleta A. Trauger on Monday filed an order in Tennessee federal court docket granting a movement for sanctions and judgment in opposition to the 40-year-old nation musician, in response to court docket paperwork reviewed by The Occasions. Allen’s accuser — recognized in court docket paperwork as “Jane Doe 2” — filed her movement in opposition to the singer and his co-defendants in Could, however they failed to reply in a well timed method, the order mentioned.
“The court docket subsequently interprets this movement to be unopposed,” Trauger mentioned, including later in her order, “defendants all through have didn’t adjust to case administration discovery deadlines and even didn’t adjust to particular Orders of this court docket.”
The order provides that Allen and the co-defendants — his bodyguard and Aadyn’s Dad Touring Inc. — additionally didn’t pay the plaintiff $5,950 in nonrefundable authorized charges, as ordered in March. A authorized consultant for the defendants didn’t instantly reply on Wednesday to The Occasions’ request for remark.
Elizabeth Fegan, an lawyer for the plaintiff, advised The Occasions on Wednesday that her authorized group is “happy with the Courtroom’s determination to grant judgment for Plaintiff in gentle of Jimmie Allen’s refusal to take part within the litigation course of.”
“We stay up for proving up Plaintiff’s damages attributable to Allen’s predatory acts,” Fegan added.
Allen confronted a number of sexual assault lawsuits in the summertime of 2023, which took a toll on his profession {and professional} alternatives. In Could 2023, a lady who mentioned she was Allen’s former supervisor accused him of sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, intercourse trafficking and emotional misery. The girl — recognized in court docket paperwork as “Jane Doe” — dropped her grievance in opposition to Allen in March 2024 after reaching a settlement with the singer, and ultimately dismissed the case with prejudice in October 2024.
Jane Doe 2 sued Allen in June 2023, requesting a jury trial and an unspecified quantity in damages. She alleged in her grievance that Allen sexually assaulted her in his lodge room in Las Vegas in July 2022. She additionally accused the singer of filming the alleged assault with out her consent, inflicting her to “endure excessive emotional misery, together with nervousness and melancholy.”
Allen responded to the 2 lawsuits with a countersuit of his personal in July 2023. On the time, he denied the allegations and accused one lady of defaming him, and the opposite lady of illegally taking his cellphone after consenting to being recorded.
Amid the ultimate weeks of litigation in Jane Doe 2’s swimsuit, Allen promoted new music and reside live shows on social media. Earlier this month, he additionally addressed the sexual assault allegations on the “Playlisted Podcast,” hosted by Austin Burke.
“I at all times inform individuals, ‘Irrespective of the place you go in life, the extra profitable you turn into … watch out as a result of you could have a goal in your again,’” he mentioned in an episode printed Aug. 10. “Anytime you hear the phrase ‘lawsuit,’ know there’s cash concerned.”
He added later within the episode: “Because the world strikes ahead, I simply want individuals are smarter. I hope individuals aren’t ‘sheeple’ anymore. That folks truly use their mind in each determination, in all the pieces they learn.”
