Phoebe Bridgers has secured one other authorized win within the long-running defamation case introduced in opposition to her by music producer Chris Nelson.
The case dates again to September 2021, when the singer-songwriter shared an Instagram thread that accused Nelson of “grooming, stealing [and] violence”. Nelson, who owns the Sound House recording studio in Los Angeles, claimed the publish was defamatory in opposition to him.
He sought $3.8million (£2.8million) in damages, claiming Bridgers “deliberately used her high-profile public platform on Instagram to publish false and defamatory statements” about him “to be able to destroy his popularity”.
Responding to the allegations, Bridgers mentioned: “I consider that the statements I made in my Instagram story are true. My statements had been made primarily based on my private data, together with statements I personally heard Mr. Nelson make.”
In November 2022, a Los Angeles Superior Court docket choose dismissed Nelson’s go well with, and now, Nelson has been ordered to pay Bridgers $392,070 (£291,805) in authorized charges and prices. That’s along with a earlier order to pay $496,600 (£369,600), that means that Nelson presently owes Bridgers a complete of $888,768 (£661,480).
Bridgers is entitled to compensation due to the case’s dismissal, with additional damages due because of this to Nelson failing to efficiently attraction the ruling. Bridgers’ attorneys say he has not but paid any of the overall.
In different Bridgers information, rumours emerged earlier this 12 months that she is perhaps set to seem in Primetime, an upcoming A24 movie starring Robert Pattinson.
The film reportedly follows a journalist – performed by Pattinson – who finally ends up altering the panorama of tv after taking over the undercover world of crime. It seems to have been impressed by the American actuality sequence To Catch A Predator, however the movie’s launch date remains to be underneath wraps.
Final 12 months, Boygenius – the trio of Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, introduced they had been happening hiatus after the completion of their critically acclaimed album ‘The Document’ in 2023.
