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Kesha files for injunction to record without Dr Luke as legal battle continues

By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 2 November 2015

Kesha has asked a New York court to provide an injunction that would allow her to record a new album without the involvement of Dr Luke, while her legal battle with the producer and record label boss is ongoing.

As previously reported, Kesha Sebert accuses Lukasz ‘Dr Luke’ Gottwald of plying her with drugs and alcohol and raping her as a teenager. He says that these are fabrications invented in an attempt to get out of her contract with his Kemosabe Records label.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the singer says that her career is at risk of collapsing if she is unable to record new music soon. However, she does not want to work with Gottwald, and no other record label will sign her while she is still contracted to him and his firm. Therefore, she requests that she be allowed to record directly for Kemosabe parent company Sony Music.

In a recent legal filing requesting the injunction, Sebert’s attorney said: “Kesha now faces an abysmal decision: work with her alleged abuser … or idly and passively wait as her career tick-tocks away. She is precluded from working in perpetuity because the term of her contract can only be satisfied if she records three more albums. Kesha needs the court’s assistance”.

A rep for Gottwald told THR: “If Kesha now regrets her career being mired in legal proceedings, it’s entirely her making. It was Kesha who chose to file a lawsuit falsely alleging abuse to gain advantage in contract negotiations, and now she must accept the consequences of her improper actions”.

They go on: “As long as she continues to stand by her false claims of abuse against Dr Luke and remains in breach of her contracts, he will continue to protect his professional and personal reputation, as well as his contractual rights, in a court of law. He looks forward to obtaining judgments in his favour”.

The case continues.