Jimmy Iovine's accuser drops sexual assault suit

Jane Doe who filed a sexual assault lawsuit against record label Jimmy Iovine last year, dropped her case last week, according to court documents obtained by Rolling rock. Plaintiff's attorney Doug Wigdor filed a notice of discontinuance with prejudice on Feb. 15, permanently dropping the suit.

Reps for Wigdor and Iovine did not immediately respond Rolling rockrequests for comment.

The Jane Doe plaintiff initially filed a summons and notice against Iovine through New York's Adult Survivors Act, which allowed survivors of sexual abuse to file civil claims regardless of the statute of limitations on those claims. Jane Doe alleged that Iovine had engaged in “multiple instances of sexual abuse and violent touching of her, including one specific incident of sexual misconduct” in New York in 2007. Iovine was one of several prominent figures in the music industry she had hit with suits, along with labelmate LA Reid and artists such as Steven Tyler, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Axl Rose.

Iovine is one of the most successful and well-known record executives, founding Interscope Records in the 1990s and turning it into one of the biggest labels in the industry. He later founded Beats By Dre with the rapper in the 2000s, selling the headphone company to Apple in 2014.

The summons was filed in November to meet the Survivors' Act deadline, but the Jane Doe from the summons never filed a full lawsuit. A spokesman for Iovine said Rolling rock in November that they were “shocked and confused” by the allegation.

“No one has ever made such a claim against Jimmy Iovine, nor have we been contacted or made aware of any complaint by anyone, including this unknown plaintiff before now,” the spokesperson said at the time.