Bob Dylan‘s legal team is demanding tens of thousands of dollars in penalties against the lawyers who unsuccessfully accused the singer of sexually abusing a child in 1965.
Daniel Isaacs“The inescapable conclusion is that Mr. Isaacs and Mr. Gleason never intended to actually litigate this action,” wrote Dylan’s lead counselof the firm Gibson Dunn. “Instead, they filed the complaint knowing it would generate worldwide media coverage, which it did, and then spent months trying to leverage that publicity and the threat of embarrassment to extract a settlement payment.”
In July, the case devolved into increasing chaos. After Dylan’s lawyers accused Isaacs and Gleason of refusing to comply with court orders to turn over evidence in discovery, a judge implored them to do so “for the love of god” and threatened them with sanctions. Weeks later, Dylan’s team leveled even more serious accusations: That the accuser had deleted key emails and texts that might sink her case.Faced with those damning accusations, the accuser dropped her case at a July 28 hearing.
They then “engaged in a pattern of deliberate discovery misconduct and violations of this Court’s rules and orders,” Dylan’s lawyers wrote, culminating in the messy end to the lawsuit in July.
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