Snoop Dogg attends the premiere of NBC’s “American Song Contest” on March 21, 2022 in Universal City, California. Photo: Phillip Faraone (Getty Images)
Back in February, we told you about the unidentified woman who was suing Death Row Records’ new owner Snoop Dogg and one of his associates, Bishop Don “Magic” Juan, for sexual harassment and assault. Now it looks like that same woman may have had a change of heart.
Per Billboard, “Jane Doe” reportedly filed a motion to dismiss the case “in its entirety” on Wednesday, although the motion was “unaffected” — meaning she could file another lawsuit at a later date. While Jane’s representatives are not commenting on the matter, a spokesman for Snoop said: “It is not surprising that the plaintiff has dismissed her case against the defendants. Your complaint was full of false claims and shortcomings.”
In her lawsuit, Jane alleged that she was taken to Juan’s home “against her will” in 2013 and then forced to perform oral sex. Immediately afterwards, Doe says, she was taken to Snoop’s studio, where she was “cornered in a toilet stall” and forced to engage in oral sex again.
News of the suit came just before the “Gin & Juice” rapper was due to perform at the 2022 SuperBowl Halftime Show. Immediately afterwards, Snoop called the allegations a “thinly veiled attempt to extort money from the defendant,” while his legal team said “nothing remotely resembling the plaintiff’s story” ever happened.
In late March, Snoop demanded that the suit be dropped, citing several major gaps in Jane’s story.
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“Plaintiff’s lawsuit lacks many of the necessary details relevant to its claim … and instead recites innuendo and irrelevant statements from its public in interviews to make up for the deficiencies,” Snoop’s attorneys said at the time.
Snoop’s rep added: “It is clear that this shakedown program is a disgrace. This attempt to use the courts to push this scheme is also shameful and does a disservice to the real victims who deserve to be believed.”