Two men were arrested over two separate sexual assaults in Manchester city centre last night.
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Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent Country singer Jimmie Allen is countersuing two anonymous women who sued him for sexual assault. The women, who have been identified as “Jane Doe,” sued Allen separately. Their allegations were unrelated to one another. In the first lawsuit against Allen, filed this past May, the multiplatinum singer was accused of raping his former day-to-day manager, who alleged she endured continuous assault and abuse over the course of 18 months while she was working on the musician’s team. In June, the Grammy-nominated singer was hit with another lawsuit from second woman who claimed she filed a police report after Allen secretly filmed her during sex in a Las Vegas hotel room.
The singer filed two countersuits against both women, obtained by Variety, in Nashville federal court on Thursday.
Allen denied the allegations from his former manager, at the time, stating that the relationship was consensual. Now, he is countersuing, doubling down on his perspective that the interactions were all consensual, and claiming that he has not been able to work since he has been accused of sexual harassment, assault and rape. “Throughout the relationship, sexual encounters were initiated by both Allen and [Jane Doe],” Allen’s suit says, stating that the relationship began in March 2021. “The relationship continued until the fall of 2022 when Allen ended the relationship to focus on repairing his relationship with his wife.” Allen — who announced a separation from his pregnant wife weeks before he was accused of sexual abuse — said he has been seeking “professional help.” In a statement, the singer says the “false allegations” have amplified “racism and harmful threats solely because I am a Black man in
Two men were arrested over two separate sexual assaults in Manchester city centre last night.
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Jimmie Allen is countersuing the two women who accused the country singer of sexual assault.In new court documents obtained by ET, Allen denied all allegations, claiming that one of the accusers defamed him and that the other took his cell phone without his permission.Allen responded to the lawsuits in the docs, filed in a Nashville federal court Thursday — the first case claims he repeatedly assaulted an unnamed «Jane Doe» on his management team, while the second claims he assaulted another woman in a Las Vegas hotel room and secretly recorded the encounter.In the case of Allen's former day-to-day manager, the «Down Home» singer's attorney's claim that she defamed him by making «deliberate, intentional, malicious, and willful» statements in beyond what is included in the lawsuit. In the report published by the outlet in May, the woman claims that during a work trip to Los Angeles in March 2021, Allen allegedly raped her following his appearance as a celebrity guest on . She claims that after a business dinner and the taping, she woke up naked in her hotel room in pain, bleeding and not remembering anything of what happened the night prior. The woman claims Allen was lying next to her in bed, and insisted she take a Plan B pill.
Jimmie Allen is hitting back at accusations of sexual assault.
Jimmie Allen has been accused of sexual assault on two separate occasions.
Jimmie Allen filed two separate counterclaims Thursday against women who have accused the country music star of sexual assault. Allen insisted the sexual encounters were both consensual in court documents filed in Tennessee federal court and obtained by Fox News Digital.
Jimmie Allen is striking back at the sexual assault allegations levelled at him this year.