R&B singer John Legend is expected to be called as a witness during music mogul LA Reid‘s sex assault trial next week.
Record executive Drew Dixon filed a lawsuit against Reid in Manhattan’s Federal District Court in November 2023. She accused the LaFace Records co-founder of assaulting her when they worked together at Arista Records in 2001.
According to documents obtained by PEOPLE, Dixon, 53, alleges her career was “derailed” when she was assaulted by two of her supervisors. Afterwards, she was hired at Arista Records where Reid was aware of the previous incident.
Dixon claims Reid, 69, blocked her from advancing further in her career “unless she acquiesced to his demand to be alone and in close proximity to her, where he would create the opportunity to sexually assault her on two separate occasions,” according to the lawsuit.
She said his alleged misconduct caused her to miss opportunities to work with celebrities like singer John Legend.”
She claims Reid cost her millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Drew also accused Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons of raping her in a complaint filed in 2017. She claims the alleged assault happened in 1997. She also filed a defamation lawsuit against Simmons in 2024 after he accused her of lying and having a “thirst for fame.”
“I spent so much time trying not to be a rape victim that I actually was victimizing myself by trapping myself in this tiny little playable area of this tiny little corner of the gameboard or the desktop that was the only space that I allowed myself to operate in,” she said, “because I didn’t want to accidentally bleed out of my little secret cover-up for his sake, thinking it was for my sake too.”
