NEW YORK — Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the Grammy-winning music chief who impacted the profession of specialists including Pink, Usher and Mariah Carey, was sued by a previous music leader who says he physically attacked her and wrecked her vocation.
Drew Dixon documented the claim Wednesday in a New York government court. Dixon, who worked for Reid when he was CEO of Arista Records, asserts that Reid physically attacked her two times in 2001 and later cut her financial plan and sidelined specialists when she rebuked his proceeding with propels.
Dixon left Arista in 2002 and battles that her “brilliant direction” in the music business was stopped by Reid’s provocation.
“This prosecution isn’t just about the horrendous actual attacks that Ms. Dixon needed to persevere however it is likewise about the hopeless harm done to the uncommon and blooming vocation of a phenomenal ability,” the claim said.
Dixon is looking for unknown harms.
The Related Press doesn’t ordinarily name individuals who say they were physically attacked except if they approach freely.
Messages left for Joel Katz, a lawyer who addressed Reid when Dixon originally unveiled her charges in 2017, weren’t quickly returned Wednesday night.
The Related Press wasn’t quickly ready to track down a marketing specialist, specialist, or other contact number for Reid. The New York Times, which previously revealed the insight about the claim, said Reid didn’t answer different solicitations for input Wednesday.
Dixon sued under New York state’s Grown-up Survivors Act, spent last year, which permits claimed casualties of sexual maltreatment a one-year window to sue regardless of whether the first legal time limit has elapsed. The cutoff time is Nov. 24.
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In 2017, Reid left his situation as Chief of Epic Records after a previous female collaborator blamed him for lewd behavior.
Reid told The New York Times at that point: “I’m glad for my history advancing, supporting and inspiring ladies at each organization I’ve at any point run. That regardless, assuming I have at any point said anything fit for being misjudged, I am sorry energetically.”