His attorney called the lawsuit a ‘crass money grab’ Lemon, 56, pictured at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday, has denied the allegations.
Lemon has never paid the plaintiff a dime over the course of this unfortunate spectacle, and he is looking forward to moving on with his life.’
‘This case was a crass money grab from its inception,’ Polisi said. Lemon’s attorney, Caroline Polisi, said the lawsuit was a money grab on Hice’s part, who previously claimed to have been offered $500,000 to settle the case last year. In a statement, Hice said: ‘After a lot of inner reflection and a deep dive into my memory, I have come to realize that my recollection of the events that occurred on the night in question when I first met CNN anchor Don Lemon were not what I thought they were when I filed this lawsuit.’ Hice and Lemon’s attorneys, however, filed a motion on Monday to dismiss the 2019 lawsuit after two of Hice’s witnesses contradicted him and offered to testify for the defense and a judge found the bartender failed to comply with orders to turn over evidence,’ Mediaite reported. A bartender who filed a lawsuit against Don Lemon alleging the CNN anchor sexually assaulted him in the Hamptons has dropped the suit, claiming he ‘misremembered’ their meeting in 2018 after his case began falling apart.ĭustin Hice, 41, accused Lemon, 56, of putting ‘his hand down the front of his own shorts, and vigorously rubbed his genitalia, removed his hand and shoved his index and middle fingers into Plaintiff’s moustache under Hice’s nose.’