The state star, who was held liable of assaulting a pistillate and secretly taping the encounter, could soon beryllium facing a large monetary judgment.
Jimmie Allen attends the 54th Academy Of Country Music Awards astatine MGM Grand Garden Arena connected April 07, 2019 successful Las Vegas. Matt Winkelmeyer/ACMA2019/Getty Images for ACM
A pistillate who won a tribunal ruling holding Jimmie Allen liable for sexually assaulting and secretly filming her successful a Las Vegas edifice country is present asking a justice to grant her astir $1.8 cardinal successful damages, saying the incidental near her “traumatized” and “violated.”
Last month, a Tennessee national justice deed Allen, a once-rising state euphony star, with a alleged default judgement successful the lawsuit, ruling that helium had repeatedly flouted tribunal orders and missed cardinal deadlines — frankincense forfeiting his close to support himself.
In a tribunal filing connected Monday (Sept. 8), her lawyers present accidental Allen should wage his unfortunate (Jane Doe) $1.8 cardinal successful damages nether that judgement — including $250,000 for her affectional distress, $340,000 to wage for aboriginal wellness attraction and $1.19 cardinal successful punitive damages.
“Defendants’ predatory behaviour … is not the benignant of behaviour tolerated successful a civilized and resulted successful superior affectional and intelligence wounded to plaintiff,” Doe’s lawyers wrote.
The lawsuit is 1 of 2 civilian intersexual battle lawsuits brought against Allen successful 2023, derailing the singer’s promising vocation aft a tally of No. 1 hits connected Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. He was subsequently dropped by his label, BBR Music Group, arsenic good arsenic his booking agency, publicist and absorption company.
The first lawsuit accused Allen of sexually harassing and abusing his day-to-day manager implicit a play of 18 months from 2020 and 2022. Allen denied the claims and countersued his ex-manager for defamation; that lawsuit was settled successful 2024.
The second lawsuit — the 1 astatine contented successful Monday’s filing — was filed by an unnamed pistillate who says she met Allen connected a formation to Nashville successful May 2022 and began to regularly substance and FaceTime with the singer.
After gathering up with Allen successful Las Vegas, the pistillate says the 2 had consensual enactment — but that Allen ejaculated wrong her without a condom contempt her explicit protests. She says she aboriginal discovered that helium had surreptitiously acceptable up his cellphone to grounds the full brushwood without her knowledge.
The vocalist denied the claims, saying she consented to the video recording. But things didn’t spell truthful smoothly successful court, with the vocalist cycling done lawyers and blowing past deadlines for producing grounds and sitting for a deposition.
Last month, aft the latest procedural misstep, Judge Aleta A. Trauger simply ruled against Allen, holding him liable by default for battery, assault, penetration of privateness and infliction of affectional distress. That ruling near undecided however overmuch helium indispensable wage successful damages.
At the time, a caller lawyer for Allen blamed the result connected Allen’s aged attorneys and vowed to “take contiguous enactment to acceptable speech this judgment.” But that question was ne'er filed, and that aforesaid lawyer did not instrumentality a petition for comment. A spokesperson for Allen told Billboard connected Monday that they were “currently connected hiatus with this client.”
In the caller filing seeking damages, Allen’s accuser said she had suffered terrible harm from the incident, including post-traumatic accent upset and “intense distrust successful interpersonal relationships.”
“Following the traumatic incidental successful Las Vegas, changes to plaintiff’s intelligence wellness were rapidly observed, including reverting to an eating upset and turning to intoxicant abuse,” her lawyers wrote...

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