The longtime record executive was accused of sexual misconduct last November amid a wave of suits against prominent music industry figures
The Jane Doe who filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against record executive Jimmy Iovine last year dropped her case last week, according to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone. The 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 to Rolling Stone‘s requests for comment.
The Jane Doe plaintiff originally filed a summons and notice against Iovine through New York’s Adult Survivor’s Act, which allowed survivors of sexual abuse to file civil claims regardless of those claims’ statutes of limitations. The Jane Doe alleged that Iovine had engaged in “multiple instances of sexual abuse and forcible touching of her, including a specific incident of sexual misconduct” in New York in 2007. Iovine was one of several prominent figures in the music industry who’d been hit with suits, alongside fellow record executive L.A. Reid, and artists including 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 largest record labels in the industry. He later co-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’s deadline, but the Jane Doe from the summons never filed a full lawsuit. A rep for Iovine told Rolling Stone in November that they were “shocked and baffled” by the allegation.
“No one has ever made a claim like this against Jimmy Iovine, nor have we been contacted or made aware of any complaint by anyone, including this unknown plaintiff prior to now,” the representative said at the time.
