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Paula Abdul Sues Nigel Lythgoe For Sexual Assault: Latest, Shocking Developments

Paula Abdul has made a scathing accusation against Nigel Lythgoe. She says the producer assaulted her on numerous occasions.

Abdul claims she and Lythgoe got into an elevator at their hotel prior to the first supposed assault… and after the doors closed, the latter shoved her against the wall, grabbed her genitals and breasts and tried to tongue-kiss her. ((Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images)) “To say that I am shocked and saddened by the allegations made against me by Paula Abdul is a wild understatement,” Nigel Lythgoe’s statement read to Page Six. In the docs, he called her a “well-documented fabulist, with a long history of telling wild stories that are untethered from reality and are primarily designed to attract attention and make Abdul appear to be the victim of dreadful misfortune.”

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