{"id":140972,"date":"2024-02-16T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=140972"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:45:27","slug":"paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=140972","title":{"rendered":"Paula Abdul Sues \u2018American Idol\u2019 Producer Nigel Lythgoe Over Sexual Assault Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Abdul has sued Nigel Lythgoe, former\u00a0American Idol\u00a0and\u00a0So You Think You Can Dance\u00a0producer, claiming he sexually assaulted her twice. The singer filed a lawsuit on Friday against Lythgoe and the show\u2019s production companies, alleging that the producer sexually assaulted her during one of the early seasons of American Idol&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/paula-abdul-american-idol-nigel-lythgoe-sexual-assault-lawsuit-1235776866\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Abdul has sued Nigel Lythgoe, former\u00a0American Idol\u00a0and\u00a0So You Think You Can Dance\u00a0producer, claiming he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims.jpg",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims.jpg",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140972-paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}