Usher's herpes lawsuit dropped
The OMG hitmaker was hit by a $20 million lawsuit in August from two
women and a man who claimed he had put them at risk of the sexually-transmitted
disease.
But after a recorded phone call was revealed in which one of the women admits
to having used protection during her relationship with the musician, the case
has been dismissed.
Laura Helm's phone call was recorded two days before filing the lawsuit
against the star, and according to TMZ.com, after her first attorney dropped out
of the case, her replacement immediately filed legal documents to dismiss the
case.
However, the dismissal has been handed down without prejudice, "with intent
to refile", and it is currently unclear why her lawyer made the move to
dismiss.
In September, Usher, 39, filed a response to the lawsuit through his lawyers
in which he denied their claims he had sexual contact with them or exposed them
to herpes.
Usher's lawyers, Laura Wasser and Zia Modabber insist the plaintiffs argued
they can't win because they have "unclean hands", alleging they did something
wrong, but not being specific as to what.
The response from the Yeah! singer also insisted the group don't
have a legal claim because anything he may have done was unintentional,
suggesting that if he does have the infection - which he has neither confirmed
nor denied - he didn't know it at the time.
He also argued that if he did have sex with any of them, they "assumed the
risk".
The three alleged victims took legal action after it emerged the U Make
Me Wanna hitmaker had paid a woman $1.1 million in 2012 to settle a lawsuit
after she claimed to have contracted herpes from.
The settled 2012 suit claimed Usher had been diagnosed with herpes around
2009 or 2010, but he was accused of "consciously and purposefully" withholding
his diagnosis from the unnamed woman and "continued to have unprotected sex"
with her.
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