Country music musician Jimmie Allen, who is known for the songs “Best Shot” and “Warrior,” is being sued by his former manager for alleged sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, sex trafficking and emotional distress, according to legal documents obtained by The Times.
The woman, who wants to remain anonymous because she still works in the music industry, claims that while employed by Allen’s management company Wide Open Music, the country musician raped her, regularly sexually abused her and harassed her for a year and a half.
Allen’s label, BBR Music Group, swiftly suspended the recording artist, saying in a statement, “In light of today’s allegations against Jimmie Allen, BBR Music Group has decided to suspend all activity with him, effective immediately.”
Allen was set to perform June 11 at the CMAFest in Nashville. But after the lawsuit went public, the Country Music Assn. removed him from the lineup (which also included country music giants Luke Bryan and Tim McGraw).
He was also dropped as the commencement speaker for Friday’s Delaware State University graduation and replaced by Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.).
According to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Tennessee federal court, in which Allen’s former manager is identified as “Jane Doe,” she alleges that in March 2021 she woke up nude in her hotel room, vaginally bleeding and in pain, with no recollection of the previous evening.
She alleged that Allen was lying next to her and told her to take a Plan B pill, and that she realized he had taken her virginity against her will.
“I was disconnected from my body, feeling a sense of panic,” Jane Doe told Variety in a Thursday exposé. “He held me in place. At that point, any physical will was just out the door. I was pretty much paralyzed.”
Jane Doe says in the lawsuit that the abuse escalated after the night in the hotel. She claims that Allen forcibly put his hands down her pants in public and said that as she would drive Allen to and from events, he sexually assaulted her at red lights, in green rooms, on airplanes and other places where she was required to be present.
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