November 10th 2023.
Renowned music executive L.A. Reid is being sued by Drew Dixon, a former Arista executive, for sexual assault. The incident was first reported in the Max original documentary “On The Record.”
Reid is the co-founder of LaFace Records and was at one time the head of Arista, Epic, and Def Jam Records. In 2020, Max released the documentary where Dixon recounted her experiences of sexual assault and harassment from her former bosses Reid and Russell Simmons.
Now, three years after the documentary’s release, Dixon has taken legal action against Reid with a lawsuit. The suit, filed in Manhattan’s Federal District Court, accuses Reid of assaulting her twice during her time working for him at Arista Records.
Dixon claims that after she declined his advances, Reid retaliated against her by freezing her promotional and recording budgets, rejecting song demos and artist auditions, and embarrassing her in front of others.
“It was very clear that I was being punished because I would not comply,” she told the Times.
Dixon also claims Simmons assaulted her in 1995, a claim he denies. She is still deciding whether or not to sue Simmons, she told the New York Times.
“I have an opportunity now to seek some degree of accountability,” Dixon says. “And that’s really what I’m trying to do.”
Reid has yet to respond to the lawsuit. Dixon's lawsuit falls under the New York Adult Survivors Act, which gives alleged victims who were over 18 when the abuse occurred a one-year window for civil lawsuits. This window will close on November 24th.
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