The legal back and forth over Usher continues. According to The Blast, one of the women who has sued the singer is now responding to his request to have her case thrown out.
The woman, Laura, filed a lawsuit against Usher for a second time earlier this year. In the suit, she alleges he exposed her to herpes. Usher has denied her allegations.
The Blast reports that Laura says the two began as friends and became intimate after what she described as Usher “overtly and continually seeking a sexual interest” with her. She claims they met twice in April of last year, once in Atlanta and once in New Orleans.
In his own court filing, Usher argued that Laura assumed any risk when she agreed to consensual sexual contact. The filing also points out that she did not say whether she had been tested before, and did not raise the use of protection with him. He also denied all of her claims.
Now Laura is answering that argument. “Defendant audaciously requests this Court to support his self serving notion that an individual infected with an incurable virus owes no duty regarding his ‘hidden defect’ to a potential sexual partner,” she wrote in her response.
She also said that suggesting she should have brought protection shows a belief that safe sex is only a woman’s responsibility. She has asked the court to deny Usher’s motion to dismiss.
These are allegations made in court filings, and Usher denies them. At this time, the case is ongoing.
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