Jimmie Allen Accused of Delaying Legal Process in Rape Cases

Being accused of rape and sexual assault by two separate women is a bad enough situation. But when your own lawyers are saying that you’re “unable to comply with the terms” of your engagement with them, it looks even worse as you try to convince the public you are innocent. It’s the latest public blunder by country artist Jimmie Allen who’s quickly losing faith with any final remaining defenders.
Jimmie Allen should be considered innocent until proven guilty like anyone. But in recent court filings revealed by The Tennessean, the musical chairs he’s been playing with counsel looks like an attempt to stall turning over crucial pieces of evidence in the two civil cases filed against him, along with slowing down the entire legal process.
The two plaintiffs in the cases both have the same lawyer, Chicago-based attorney Elizabeth Fegan. Fegan is known for bringing sexual assault and harassment cases. When she first approached Allen about the accusations, he was represented by Deborah Adams from the Nashville law firm Frost Brown Todd. Then shortly after the lawsuits were filed, Jimmie Allen retained Andrew Brettler of the Hollywood law firm Berk Brettler. Then by July of 2023, a third set of lawyers had been brought on board, Jonathan Cole and Katelyn Dwyer of Nashville law firm Baker Donelson.
Now that third set of lawyers say they can no longer represent Jimmie Allen in the case, and Allen says he doesn’t want them to. The court previously set a December 29th deadline for Jimmie Allen to turn over electronic evidence as part of the discovery process—specifically the contents of two cell phones that are believed to have evidence of the interactions between Allen and the two alleged victims. But that evidence has not been turned over.
On December 21st, Allen’s lawyers Jonathan Cole and Katelyn Dwyer filed a motion to withdraw as Jimmie Allen’s counsel. It was also at this time they said that a vendor had the contents of Jimmie Allen’s phones in an electronic file, but they didn’t intend to turn those contents over. The plaintiffs attorney Elizabeth Fegan says that Allen has “failed to produce the most basic information sought in discovery.”
Allen is also countersuing the two alleged victims, but it is uncertain who will bring those countersuits forward. Elizabeth Fegan is fighting Jimmie Allen’s effort to retain what would now be a fourth set of lawyers, claiming it is a stall tactic and an effort to keep the plaintiffs from collecting crucial pieces of evidence. However, Fegan has allowed attorney Jonathan Cole and Katelyn Dwyer to withdraw from representing Allen in the lawsuit from the second accuser.
Trials for the two lawsuits against Jimmy Allen are currently set to transpire in November 2024 and March 2025, if a settlement isn’t agreed to before, and if Allen doesn’t successfully stall the process.
Meanwhile, the delays by Allen have resulted in a fresh round of headlines about the incident. If Jimmie Allen is innocent, why isn’t he in a rush to clear his name? Allen’s PR representative Dria Baum says that the country singer, “decided it was best for his case to bring in new legal counsel at the top of the year.”
Meanwhile the electronic records from Jimmie Allen’s cell phones sit in a file that the plaintiffs cannot access, and the previously lawyers, Jonathan Cole and Katelyn Dwyer, do not intend to turn it over before leaving the case.
On May 11th, 2023, Jimmie Allen’s former day-to-day manger filed suit in Tennessee and accused the singer of scores of incidents where she was allegedly raped and sexually assaulted over multiple months, including during trips to prominent television appearances and other events. This included one incident where she woke up naked in a hotel room in severe pain, bleeding vaginally, and not being able to recall anything from the previous evening. Jimmie Allen was beside her in bed, and insisting she take a morning after pill. The victim says this is how she lost her virginity.
Further incidents were also chronicled in a detailed article in Variety, including an incident where the alleged victim sought medical treatment at a hospital, and says Jimmie Allen took video and nude photos of her to coerce her silence, and to use as blackmail against her. For Jimmie Allen’s part, he acknowledged a sexual relationship with the victim, but claims it was consensual. Allen was married at the time, but announced his separation from his wife shortly before the allegations came to light.
Then on June 9th, 2023, a second lawsuit was brought against Allen by another alleged victim claiming battery, assault, and invasion of privacy. The second victim claimed that she met Jimmie Allen on a flight. Afterwards, Allen’s bodyguard followed her into the airport and told her that Allen wanted her phone number, which she provided. After months of calls and text messages, they agreed to meet in Las Vegas at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in July of 2022. She voluntarily met Allen in the bedroom, but allegedly told him she was not on birth control and repeatedly said she did not want him to ejaculate inside of her.
According to the alleged victim, Jimmie Allen said he wanted to get her pregnant, and ultimately did ejaculate inside of her despite her requests. Distressed by the incident, the alleged victim became desperate to get a separate hotel room and to find a morning after pill. As she was gathering her belongings to leave the room, she discovered a cell phone set up in a closet focused on the bed and recording their interaction. While Jimmie Allen was passed out, Jane Doe 2 took the phone with her, booked a new flight to her home in Sacramento, California, and gave the phone over to the local police when she arrived.
January 4, 2024 @ 2:17 pm
First one is clearly wrong. 2nd one i don’t see the problem. They agreed to have unprotected sex. Ejaculation is a risk of that. Also Jimmie Allen was never country to begin with ????♂️
January 4, 2024 @ 4:44 pm
Yeah, no. You have a right to consent to whatever sex you want to have – if the guy can’t pull out, and he could’ve, then it’s his job to say no, I can’t have sex because I lack control. Or, you know, wear a fucking condom. Tired of BS excuses like this- listening to what your partner wants and doing that isn’t hard.
January 4, 2024 @ 6:25 pm
Agreed with Winston. As much as it sucks, anyone has the right to say stop at any moment or to put conditions on their consent.
Sure, mistakes can happen, but that isn’t his defense. If she is telling the truth then he was just being a total douche.
Good on her for speaking out, a-holes like that give guys a bad name.
And really, all males should realise that its in our favour that girls should feel safe going home with a guy.
January 4, 2024 @ 8:50 pm
Maybe she shouldn’t have flown to Vegas and met him in a hotel if she didn’t want the risk of getting pregnant. Abstinence is the most effective form of birth control. Just like your parents should’ve done.
January 5, 2024 @ 12:40 pm
What a mighty keyboard warrior you are!
January 5, 2024 @ 1:20 pm
Maybe he shouldn’t have invited her if he wasn’t offering what she wanted.
And not been a dick about it.
Sure, i think her taste in men is terrible but that doesn’t mean she deserved to intentionally have things done to her that she didn’t want.
And most likely, for every thing that makes a case the next day, there is a lot of shit that sounds lame when you explain it but actually was nasty.
And why would you think she deserves a moral judgement when he was cheating on his wife??
I’m not posting to get in a pointless argument, but i like this website and I don’t want people to think the readers are all self righteous jerks.
January 5, 2024 @ 5:02 pm
Or maybe don’t let famous married men raw dog you,
February 18, 2024 @ 11:46 pm
“They agreed to have unprotected sex. Ejaculation is a risk of that.”
Sounds as if someone should just ejaculate the guy out of Nashville (safely)
January 4, 2024 @ 5:30 pm
A trashy article about a trash singer. Good grief.
January 4, 2024 @ 5:58 pm
There is nothing “trashy” about this article.
It’s important that the media take accusations of sexual assault and rape in the country music industry seriously, and I’m glad that so many outlets are reporting on this, instead of ignoring it like they’re doing with Diplo, Nelly, Kirt Webster, and others, especially since so many artists are strangely silent about this issue.
I’ve been reporting on the accusations against Jimmie Allen from the beginning, and I will continue until there is a conclusion. If some readers don’t find it interesting, I understand. But my reporting on it is compulsory.
January 4, 2024 @ 9:00 pm
You aren’t a reporter
January 4, 2024 @ 11:57 pm
Whatever you want to call me, I got you to come to this dark corner of the internet, and even leave a comment. So I must be doing something right.
February 18, 2024 @ 11:40 pm
…said the blind critic to his deaf audience
Come here often, do you?
January 4, 2024 @ 6:00 pm
Wait, I’ve disagreed with Trig before, but what’s trashy about the article? He literally just stated the facts, timelines, and allegations that have been reported, condensing it nicely into a single piece. If this is true, Allen is trash. But the article is…a well-written article about an ongoing news story.
January 4, 2024 @ 6:48 pm
No argument with the facts from me at all. Just referring to the subject and subject matter. Seems like the media is taking a pass on this, but I think most of us know why.
January 5, 2024 @ 2:27 pm
So the content of the article is trashy? But you also say that you think the media is passing over the story, which I think we all agree is a bad thing. Do you want it covered, but just not here?
January 5, 2024 @ 8:30 am
“Wayne” you are a f**king trashy if you think this article is trashy. This is a serious issue and Trigger’s reporting on it should be considered necessary in these unfortunate times we live in where people think that tolerating and ignoring rape and sexual assault is the right thing to do.
January 4, 2024 @ 10:18 pm
I wonder what unknown legal ramifications there are for turning over electronic devices that contain communications that do not include the plaintiffs. What I mean is can the prosecution use “dubious” communications with other un-indentified women as a tool in court to sway a jury? The problem with cell phones is that they retain a significant amount of data that is far beyond what involves the victims. This could also be stalling tactics to push the prosecution towards a settlement. I want justice to prevail, but I don’t hear people talk about what happens when you give people essentially ALL of your online communications and how most of that shouldnt be used against you in a court.
January 5, 2024 @ 11:25 am
I’ve already forgotten about this guy. not that I ever gave him much thought in the first place.
January 6, 2024 @ 7:52 am
The only single he ever put out that caught my attention in the least was “Down Home,” for its name-dropping of Charley Pride as as artist whose music he supposedly enjoys listening to in his truck because his father did. Given that his own music sounds nothing like Pride’s, I found that both improbable and pandering.
January 7, 2024 @ 10:36 am
I bet she is a real winner
February 18, 2024 @ 11:36 pm
Although he may delay it, Legal Process simply comes with the territory of this noble citizen.