Jimmie Allen is not the topic of a sexual assault lawsuit that was filed by one in every of his former managers final June, because the Jane Doe in query has now dropped the nation singer from the swimsuit as a part of a settlement.

In an announcement issued to Selection and different media, the lady’s attorneys at FeganScott confirmed that they’ve filed paperwork asking the U.S. District Court docket for the Center District of Tennessee to dismiss Allen from the claims within the lawsuit. They aren’t asking the court docket to take the swimsuit off the books fully, nevertheless, as the lady’s former bosses on the administration agency that when dealt with Allen are nonetheless being sued.

“FeganScott can verify that Jane Doe and Jimmie Allen have reached a mutual accord as to Plaintiff’s claims and Mr. Allen’s counterclaims and have agreed to dismiss them,” mentioned the assertion. “The choice displays solely that each events want to maneuver previous litigation.”

FeganScott continued: “The plaintiff is continuous to pursue her claims in opposition to Williams Bowers Administration d/b/a Vast Open Music, the Nashville music administration agency that employed her as Allen’s day-to-day supervisor, for his or her function within the case, and one in every of its principals, Ash Bowers.”

Allen’s representatives didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Friday.

The singer stays the topic of a second, unrelated lawsuit additionally filed final June by a special Jane Doe, whose assault cost was based mostly in an accusation that, in an initially consensual encounter, Allen ejaculated inside her in opposition to her needs and filmed their sexual exercise with out consent. That swimsuit remains to be going ahead, as of now, and Allen countersued her, as he did the primary Jane Doe.

Within the swimsuit that has simply been settled, Allen was accused of rape, sexual assault and harassment by his former day-to-day supervisor, a lady who took on that function in her mid-twenties, shortly out of school. She alleged she was manipulated and groomed by Allen into an abusive sexual relationship and was suing him for sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, intercourse trafficking and emotional misery. It claimed that the alleged abuse started in March 2021 throughout a enterprise journey to Los Angeles the place Allen was a star visitor on an episode of “American Idol,” when she “was incapacitated and incapable of giving consent. She misplaced consciousness and awoke bare in her lodge room a number of hours later, with Jimmie Allen insisting she take Plan B as quickly as potential… She realized she had misplaced her virginity via no alternative of her personal and felt she had betrayed her religion.” Regardless of the traumatic circumstance, the lady mentioned abusive sexual encounters lasted for one more 12 months and a half, as she believed it was the one option to maintain her job.

Allen denied all wrongdoing, insisting that he engaged in a consensual affair with the plaintiff. ““I acknowledge that we had a sexual relationship — one which lasted for almost two years,” he mentioned in an announcement to Selection on the time. “Throughout that point, she by no means as soon as accused me of any wrongdoing, and he or she spoke of our relationship and friendship as being one thing she wished to proceed indefinitely. Solely after issues ended between us, did she rent a lawyer to succeed in out and ask for cash, which leads me to query her motives….” In response, the plaintiff’s attorneys denied that she had ever requested Allen’s camp for cash previous to submitting the swimsuit.

In an Instagram submit after the primary lawsuit was filed, Allen issued a mea culpa to his household, writing to his then-pregnant spouse — who had filed for divorce two months earlier than the allegations turned public — “I need to publicly apologize to my spouse, Alexis, for humiliating her with my affair. I’m embarrassed that my decisions have introduced disgrace on her.” Implicit in his assertion was that he was a sufferer, not victimizer. “This enterprise takes a lot from you, It’s stuffed with temptations that may cripple you and wreck all the pieces you’ve constructed. I’m ashamed that I wasn’t robust sufficient to resist them. I’ll not be a sufferer of my weaknesses.” 

Because the lawsuits have been filed, Allen was dropped from most of his skilled affiliations throughout the nation world, and he has begun to experiment extra with types of music outdoors of the realm of nation, characterizing these strikes in his social media posts as natural creative decisions.

Within the wake of the allegations, Allen was faraway from a major stage spot on final 12 months’s CMA Pageant stadium-show lineup, on high of being dropped by his label, BBR Music Group, his administration, the Familie, his company, UTA, and his publicist, Full Protection Communications.

Allen being placed on an ongoing time-out by the nation music business was outstanding after an increase that had seen three of his first 4 singles attain No. 1 at nation radio. Allen had received greatest new artist honors at each the CMA and ACM Awards, in addition to choosing up a Grammy nomination for greatest new artist. Apart from his return to “American Idol” (the place he was a contestant again in 2011), his excessive media profile included appearances as a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars” and a choose on the Reese Witherspoon-created Apple collection “My Sort of Nation.”

Though Allen has largely projected a assured and even defiant picture in his social media because the lawsuits have been filed, earlier this month he posted a video on Instagram (the place he nonetheless maintains greater than 500,000 followers) of an acoustic efficiency during which he debuted a extra susceptible music. Within the new music, he sings, “I’ll smile for the digital camera and say that I’m OK / I’m damaged in items that nobody can see / The reality is that I’m all the time on the sting, looking for the purpose of dwelling / I’m barely holding on, and nobody can see that I’m consistently combating with me.”

Allen doesn’t at present have any tour dates listed on his web site, and his “Fan Membership” web page reads merely: “Coming Quickly.”