Kesha asks judge to make payments from Dr. Luke, Sony public

Kesha says her former music producer, Dr. Luke, shouldn’t be allowed to maintain how a lot she was paid by his corporations and Sony confidential in his ongoing defamation case towards her.

The “Tik Tok” singer requested a decide to disclaim Dr. Luke’s request to seal components of some 80 paperwork in his 2014 lawsuit, during which he claims she falsely accused him of drugging and raping her, in accordance with papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court docket Thursday by Kesha’s attorneys.

Luke — whose actual identify is Lukasz Gottwald — and Sony “could also be involved that it received’t look good when the general public learns how little cash they’ve been paying a Grammy-nominated artist, however that concern is just not a justification for sealing,” Kesha’s lawyer Leah Godesky wrote within the submitting.

However the pop star’s pay is related to Luke’s claims that she breached her contract along with his manufacturing firm and to any calculation of damages she may face, Godesky argued.

“Kesha will present at trial that the paltry deal phrases and practically a decade of never-actually-fulfilled guarantees to enhance the contract is among the manipulative instruments that Dr. Luke used to coerce Kesha into protecting silent about his abuse,” Godesky alleged in papers additionally asking the decide to disclaim Sony’s related request to seal the deal-terms.

Kesha — whose full identify is Kesha Rose Sebert — can be requesting that the decide reject Luke’s movement from earlier this month to seal a slew of different data.

Luke’s attorneys in papers, additionally filed Thursday, claimed that Kesha is individually making an attempt to seal components of her medical data which Luke doesn’t oppose and that the movement is a part of her continued tactic of smearing his identify within the media.

Kesha “perpetuates her malicious tactic, which she has employed all through this seven-year-long lawsuit, of litigating this motion within the press by tarnishing plaintiffs with false, and certainly irrelevant, accusations,” Luke’s lawyer Jeffrey Movit alleged within the submitting.

Luke’s authorized workforce responded in a press release calling Kesha’s papers, “extra false nonsense.”

“Dr. Luke isn’t making an attempt to maintain secret how a lot cash Kesha made — and she or he made quite a bit,” the assertion mentioned. “We invite Kesha to offer the general public all of her royalty statements. They’ll present the multi-millions of {dollars} Kesha has been paid.”

“In fact, Dr. Luke moved to seal components of contracts — they’re principally technical authorized phrases, and so they don’t present the multi-millions of {dollars} Kesha made,” the assertion continued. “The court docket already sealed them earlier than. Dr. Luke has an obligation to different folks and corporations to maintain them confidential.”

Final 12 months, a decide dominated that Kesha defamed Dr. Luke by telling Girl Gaga that he additionally raped Katy Perry — a declare which Perry denied in a deposition.

Godesky didn’t instantly return a request for remark.