FKA twigs lawsuit towards Shia LeBeouf—which was filed on the finish of 2020 and cites “relentless abuse,” sexual battery, assault, and emotional misery—won’t go to trial as deliberate in 2023. On August 29, each events agreed to a continuance, suspending the trial to October 14, 2024, courtroom filings seen by Pitchfork verify. Pitchfork has reached out to twigs and LeBeouf’s attorneys for remark.
The submitting notes that “sure discovery points nonetheless stay to be resolved” and says that depositions for each side have been repeatedly postponed attributable to scheduling points surrounding twigs and LeBeouf’s respective “leisure tasks.” It’s additionally famous that twigs’ key counsel shall be on maternity go away through the initially scheduled November 6, 2023 trial date. The brand new trial date after all might be adjusted once more “to a date as quickly thereafter is handy thereafter on the courtroom’s calendar.”
“What I went by way of with Shia was the worst factor I’ve ever been by way of in the entire of my life,” FKA twigs instructed The New York Occasions in late 2020. “I don’t assume folks would ever assume that it might occur to me. However I feel that’s the factor. It could occur to anyone.” She mentioned the lawsuit additional in a February 2021 broadcast interview with Gayle King.
“I’m not in any place to inform anybody how my habits made them really feel,” LaBeouf responded in an e-mail for the aforementioned 2020 Occasions article. “I’ve no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, solely rationalizations. I’ve been abusive to myself and everybody round me for years. I’ve a historical past of injuring the folks closest to me. I’m ashamed of that historical past and am sorry to these I harm. There’s nothing else I can actually say.”
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