Dr. Dre has secured a victory in his ongoing authorized battle in opposition to a star psychiatrist who final month filed a lawsuit accusing the rapper of harassment.
Dre was beforehand served with a brief restraining order after his former divorce therapist, Dr. Charles Sophy, filed a $10 million lawsuit alleging that his former consumer subjected him to a “systematic and dangerous marketing campaign of harassment “.
That short-term order was dissolved Tuesday after a decide dominated that Sophy did not show that Dre, born Andre Young, poses a risk to her bodily security, denying the psychiatrist’s request for a everlasting restraining order.
“The Court finds that the occasion requesting the protecting order didn’t meet the relevant burden of proof and accordingly the request is denied,” Los Angeles County Judge Melanie Ochoa mentioned Tuesday afternoon, in accordance with a verbal order obtained by the Times.
Sophy’s skilled relationship with Young dates again to 2018, the psychiatrist mentioned in his Oct. 9 lawsuit, when he started providing marriage counseling to the “Still DRE” artist and his now ex-wife, Nicole Young. After working “diligently, independently and pretty to assist Young and his ex-wife resolve their disputes,” Sophy ceased contact with the couple in 2021, when their divorce was finalized.
“Fourteen months later, and out of the blue, with out warning, Young launched a sustained marketing campaign of offensive messages, late-night reminders that he wouldn’t ‘neglect’ Dr. Sophy, and homophobic slurs,” Sophy’s lawsuit reads, including that Young expressed his frustration with the end result of the mediation with the psychiatrist.
The Oct. 9 doc additionally alleged that Young as soon as despatched individuals to Sophy’s handle to intimidate him — an allegation Young denied at Tuesday’s listening to, which he attended through Zoom.
In a press release, Young referred to as Sophy’s lawsuit and subsequent restraining order request parts of “a misguided try to undermine” his fame after he filed a criticism in opposition to Sophy with the California Medical Board final May, in accordance with a submitting reviewed by the Times on Monday.
The rapper filed that criticism, he mentioned, after allegedly discovering that Sophy “had tried to poison my relationship with my son, together with by urging him to disclose my monetary particulars to the media as a part of her makes an attempt to strain me into settling my divorce.” on unfair clauses”.
Although Young admitted to sending a number of the messages that Sophy included in her Oct. 9 harassment lawsuit, he mentioned they “had been despatched within the context of my discovery of her negligence and my unsuccessful makes an attempt to get Sophy to clarify to me why she was taking these inappropriate actions.” .”
In Monday’s submitting, Young’s lawyer, Howard E. King, referenced a Sept. 30 police report by which Sophy advised regulation enforcement he was “involved about his security” because of current occasions which concerned P. Diddy as a result of violent habits of Young’s mates. King argued that the proof of emotional misery offered by Sophy “consists totally of invoking the racist caricature that paints black males, like Young, as inherently violent.”
Sophy’s lawyer, Christopher Frost, mentioned in a press release to Rolling Stone that Young’s statement “hurled ugly and unfair accusations of racism at my client.”
“We have always been aware that we are dealing with a celebrity in this matter, and while it may be easy to make false and false claims and amplify them, that does not change the fact that Dr. Sophy has taken legal action solely because of the pattern of consistent behavior from Mr. Young,” Frost said, adding that Sophy remains committed to her case despite Tuesday’s ruling.
The first hearing in the harassment case is scheduled for April 4.
